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Tuesday, November 26th, 2024
the Week of Christ the King / Proper 29 / Ordinary 34
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New Living Translation

Psalms 32:3

When I refused to confess my sin, my body wasted away, and I groaned all day long.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Afflictions and Adversities;   Prayer;   Thompson Chain Reference - Condemnation;   Conviction of Sin;   Innocence-Guilt;   Salvation-Condemnation;   Sin;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Psalms, the Book of;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Conscience;   Healing;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Beatitudes;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Shimei;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Anthropology;   Condemn;   Impute, Imputation;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Blessedness;   English Versions;   Greek Versions of Ot;   Psalms;   Sin;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Bless;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Psalms the book of;   Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types - Bone;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Bone;   Confession;   Groan;   Psalms, Book of;   Silence;  

Parallel Translations

English Revised Version
When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long.
Update Bible Version
When I kept silent, my bones wasted away Through my groaning all the day long.
New Century Version
When I kept things to myself, I felt weak deep inside me. I moaned all day long.
New English Translation
When I refused to confess my sin, my whole body wasted away, while I groaned in pain all day long.
Webster's Bible Translation
When I kept silence, my bones became old through my roaring all the day long.
World English Bible
When I kept silence, my bones wasted away through my groaning all day long.
Amplified Bible
When I kept silent about my sin, my body wasted away Through my groaning all the day long.
English Standard Version
For when I kept silent, my bones wasted away through my groaning all day long.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
For Y was stille, my boonys wexiden elde; while Y criede al dai.
Berean Standard Bible
When I kept silent, my bones became brittle from my groaning all day long.
Contemporary English Version
Before I confessed my sins, my bones felt limp, and I groaned all day long.
American Standard Version
When I kept silence, my bones wasted away Through my groaning all the day long.
Bible in Basic English
When I kept my mouth shut, my bones were wasted, because of my crying all through the day.
Complete Jewish Bible
When I kept silent, my bones wasted away because of my groaning all day long;
Darby Translation
When I kept silence, my bones waxed old, through my groaning all the day long.
Easy-to-Read Version
Lord, I prayed to you again and again, but I did not talk about my sins. So I only became weaker and more miserable.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
When I kept silence, my bones wore away through my groaning all the day long.
King James Version (1611)
When I kept silence, my bones waxed old; through my roaring all the day long.
New Life Bible
When I kept quiet about my sin, my bones wasted away from crying all day long.
New Revised Standard
While I kept silence, my body wasted away through my groaning all day long.
Geneva Bible (1587)
When I helde my tongue, my bones consumed, or when I roared all the day,
George Lamsa Translation
Because I suffered in silence all the day long, my bones waxed old during my deep slumber.
Good News Translation
When I did not confess my sins, I was worn out from crying all day long.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
When I kept silence, my bones became worn out, Through my groaning all the day;
Douay-Rheims Bible
(31-3) Because I was silent my bones grew old; whilst I cried out all the day long.
Revised Standard Version
When I declared not my sin, my body wasted away through my groaning all day long.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
For whyle I helde my tongue: my bones consumed away through my dayly roaring.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Because I kept silence, my bones waxed old, from my crying all the day.
Christian Standard Bible®
When I kept silent, my bones became brittlefrom my groaning all day long.
Hebrew Names Version
When I kept silence, my bones wasted away through my groaning all day long.
King James Version
When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long.
Lexham English Bible
When I kept silent, my bones were worn out due to my groaning all the day.
Literal Translation
When I kept silence, then my bones became old, through my howling all day.
Young's Literal Translation
When I have kept silence, become old have my bones, Through my roaring all the day.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
For whyle I helde my tonge, my bones consumed awaye thorow my daylie complaynynges.
THE MESSAGE
When I kept it all inside, my bones turned to powder, my words became daylong groans.
New American Standard Bible
When I kept silent about my sin, my body wasted away Through my groaning all day long.
New King James Version
When I kept silent, my bones grew old Through my groaning all the day long.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
When I kept silent about my sin, my body wasted away Through my groaning all day long.
Legacy Standard Bible
When I kept silent about my sin, my bones wasted awayThrough my groaning all day long.

Contextual Overview

1

A psalm of David.

Oh, what joy for those whose disobedience is forgiven, whose sin is put out of sight! 2 Yes, what joy for those whose record the Lord has cleared of guilt, whose lives are lived in complete honesty! 3 When I refused to confess my sin, my body wasted away, and I groaned all day long. 4 Day and night your hand of discipline was heavy on me. My strength evaporated like water in the summer heat. Interlude 5 Finally, I confessed all my sins to you and stopped trying to hide my guilt. I said to myself, "I will confess my rebellion to the Lord ." And you forgave me! All my guilt is gone. Interlude 6 Therefore, let all the godly pray to you while there is still time, that they may not drown in the floodwaters of judgment.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

When: Genesis 3:8-19, 1 Samuel 31:13, 2 Samuel 11:27, 2 Samuel 12:1-12, 2 Samuel 21:12-14, Proverbs 28:13, Isaiah 57:17, Jeremiah 31:18, Jeremiah 31:19, Luke 15:15, Luke 15:16

bones: Psalms 6:2, Psalms 31:9, Psalms 31:10, Psalms 38:3, Psalms 51:8, Psalms 102:3-5, Job 30:17, Job 30:30, Lamentations 1:3, Lamentations 3:4

roaring: Psalms 22:1, Psalms 38:8, Job 3:24, Isaiah 51:20, Isaiah 59:11, Lamentations 3:8, Hosea 7:14

Reciprocal: Leviticus 26:39 - shall pine 2 Samuel 12:13 - I have sinned 1 Kings 8:38 - the plague 1 Chronicles 4:10 - that it may 2 Chronicles 33:13 - he was entreated Job 2:5 - put forth Job 10:1 - I will speak Job 16:16 - face Job 19:20 - bone Job 20:14 - his meat Job 33:21 - His flesh Psalms 6:7 - it waxeth Psalms 22:15 - strength Psalms 35:10 - All Psalms 38:5 - My wounds Psalms 55:2 - I mourn Psalms 102:5 - the voice Psalms 109:24 - my flesh Psalms 116:3 - I found Proverbs 17:22 - a broken Proverbs 18:14 - but Matthew 5:4 - General Luke 15:18 - I have Luke 22:32 - strengthen Acts 9:11 - for Romans 7:24 - wretched 1 Corinthians 11:31 - General James 4:7 - Submit

Cross-References

Genesis 14:6
and the Horites at Mount Seir, as far as El-paran at the edge of the wilderness.
Genesis 25:30
Esau said to Jacob, "I'm starved! Give me some of that red stew!" (This is how Esau got his other name, Edom, which means "red.")
Genesis 32:6
After delivering the message, the messengers returned to Jacob and reported, "We met your brother, Esau, and he is already on his way to meet you—with an army of 400 men!"
Genesis 32:9
Then Jacob prayed, "O God of my grandfather Abraham, and God of my father, Isaac—O Lord , you told me, ‘Return to your own land and to your relatives.' And you promised me, ‘I will treat you kindly.'
Genesis 32:31
The sun was rising as Jacob left Peniel, and he was limping because of the injury to his hip.
Genesis 32:32
(Even today the people of Israel don't eat the tendon near the hip socket because of what happened that night when the man strained the tendon of Jacob's hip.)
Genesis 33:14
Please, my lord, go ahead of your servant. We will follow slowly, at a pace that is comfortable for the livestock and the children. I will meet you at Seir."
Genesis 33:16
So Esau turned around and started back to Seir that same day.
Deuteronomy 2:5
Do not bother them, for I have given them all the hill country around Mount Seir as their property, and I will not give you even one square foot of their land.
Deuteronomy 2:22
He had done the same for the descendants of Esau who lived in Seir, for he destroyed the Horites so they could settle there in their place. The descendants of Esau live there to this day.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

When I kept silence,.... Was unthoughtful of sin, unconcerned about it, and made no acknowledgment and confession of it to God, being quite senseless and stupid; the Targum adds, "from the words of the law"; which seems to point at sin as the cause of what follows;

my bones waxed old; through my roaring all the day long; not under a sense of sin, but under some severe affliction, and through impatience in it; not considering that sin lay at the bottom, and was the occasion of it; and such was the violence of the disorder, and his uneasiness under it, that his strength was dried up by it, and his bones stuck out as they do in aged persons, whose flesh is wasted away from them; see

Psalms 102:3.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

When I kept silence - The psalmist now proceeds to state his condition of mind before he himself found this peace, or before he had this evidence of pardon; the state in which he felt deeply that he was a sinner, yet was unwilling to confess his sin, and attempted to conceal it in his own heart. This he refers to by the expression, “When I kept silence;” that is, before I confessed my sin, or before I made mention of it to God. The condition of mind was evidently this: he had committed sin, but he endeavored to hide it in his own mind; he was unwilling to make confession of it, and to implore pardon. He hoped, probably, that the conviction of sin would die away; or that his trouble would cease of itself; or that time would relieve him; or that employment - occupying himself in the affairs of the world - would soothe the anguish of his spirit, and render it unnecessary for him to make a humiliating confession of his guilt. He thus describes a state of mind which is very common in the case of sinners. They know that they are sinners, but they are unwilling to make confession of their guilt. They attempt to conceal it. They put off, or try to remove far away, the whole subject. They endeavor to divert their minds, and to turn their thoughts from a subject so painful as the idea of guilt - by occupation, or by amusement, or even by plunging into scenes of dissipation. Sometimes, often in fact, they are successful in this; but, sometimes, as in the case of the psalmist, the trouble at the remembrance of sins becomes deeper and deeper, destroying their rest, and wasting their strength, until they make humble confession, and “then” the mind finds rest.

My bones waxed old - My strength failed; my strength was exhausted; it seemed as if the decrepitude of age was coming upon me. The word here used, and rendered “waxed old,” would properly denote “decay,” or the wearing out of the strength by slow decay. All have witnessed the prostrating effect of excessive grief.

Through my roaring - My cries of anguish and distress. See the notes at Psalms 22:1. The meaning here is, that his sorrow was so great as to lead to loud and passionate cries; and this well describes the condition of a mind under deep trouble at the remembrance of sin and the apprehension of the wrath of God.

All the day long - Continually; without intermission.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 32:3. When I kept silence — Before I humbled myself, and confessed my sin, my soul was under the deepest horror. "I roared all the day long;" and felt the hand of God heavy upon my soul.


 
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