Psalm 32:3 {31:3}
Good News Translation
When I did not confess my sins, I was worn out from crying all day long.

New Revised Standard Version
While I kept silence, my body wasted away through my groaning all day long.

Contemporary English Version
Before I confessed my sins, my bones felt limp, and I groaned all day long.

New American Bible
Because I kept silent, my bones wasted away; I groaned all day long.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Because I was silent my bones grew old; whilst I cried out all the day long.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Because I was silent my bones grew old; whilst I cried out all the day long.

When

Genesis 3:8-19 And when they heard the voice of the Lord God walking in paradise at the afternoon air, Adam and his wife hid themselves from the face of the Lord God, amidst the trees of paradise. . . .

1 Samuel 31:13 And they took their bones, and buried them in the wood of Jabes: and fasted seven days.

2 Samuel 11:27 And the mourning being over, David sent and brought her into his house, and she became his wife, and she bore him a son: and this thing which David had done, was displeasing to the Lord.

2 Samuel 12:1-12 And the Lord sent Nathan to David: and when he was come to him, he said to him: There were two men in one city, the one rich, and the other poor. . . .

2 Samuel 21:12-14 And David went, and took the bones of Saul, and the bones of Jonathan his son from the men of Jabes Galaad, who had stolen them from the street of Bethsan, where the Philistines had hanged them when they had slain Saul in Gelboe. . . .

Proverbs 28:13 He that hideth his sins, shall not prosper: but he that shall confess, and forsake them, shall obtain mercy.

Isaiah 57:17 For the iniquity of his covetousness I was angry, and I struck him: I hid my face from thee, and was angry: and he went away wandering in his own heart.

Jeremiah 31:18,19 Hearing I heard Ephraim when he went into captivity: thou hast chastised me, and I was instructed, as a young bullock unaccustomed to the yoke. Convert me, and I shall be converted, for thou art the Lord my God. . . .

Luke 15:15,16 And he went and cleaved to one of the citizens of that country. And he sent him into his farm to feed swine. . . .

bones

Psalm 6:2 Have mercy on me, O Lord, for I am weak: heal me, O Lord, for my bones are troubled.

Psalm 31:9,10 Have mercy on me, O Lord, for I am afflicted: my eye is troubled with wrath, my soul, and my belly: . . .

Psalm 38:3 There is no health in my flesh, because of thy wrath: there is no peace for my bones, because of my sins.

Psalm 51:8 To my hearing thou shalt give joy and gladness: and the bones that have been humbled shall rejoice.

Psalm 102:3-5 For my days are vanished like smoke, and my bones are grown dry like fuel for the fire. . . .

Job 30:17,30 In the night my bone is pierced with sorrows: and they that feed upon me, do not sleep. . . .

Lamentations 1:3 Ghimel. Juda hath removed her dwelling place, because of her affliction, and the greatness of her bondage; she hath dwelt among the nations, and she hath found no rest; all her persecutors have taken her in the midst of straits.

Lamentations 3:4 Beth. My skin and my flesh he hath made old, he hath broken my bones.

roaring

Psalm 22:1 Unto the end, for the morning protection, a psalm for David. [2] O God my God, look upon me: why hast thou forsaken me? Far from my salvation are the words of my sins.

Psalm 38:8 I am afflicted and humbled exceedingly: I roared with the groaning of my heart.

Job 3:24 Before I eat I sigh: and as overflowing waters, so is my roaring:

Isaiah 51:20 Thy children are cast forth, they have slept at the head of all the ways, and the wild ox that is snared: full of the indignation of the Lord, of the rebuke of thy God.

Isaiah 59:11 We shall roar all of us like bears, and shall lament as mournful doves. We have looked for judgment, and there is none: for salvation, and it is far from us.

Lamentations 3:8 Ghimel. Yea, and when I cry, and entreat, he hath shut out my prayer.

Hosea 7:14 And they have not cried to me with their heart, but they howled in their beds: they have thought upon wheat and wine, they are departed from me.

Context
The Providence of God
2Blessed is the man to whom the Lord hath not imputed sin, and in whose spirit there is no guile. 3Because I was silent my bones grew old; whilst I cried out all the day long.4For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: I am turned in my anguish, whilst the thorn is fastened.…
Cross References
Psalm 22:1
Unto the end, for the morning protection, a psalm for David. [2] O God my God, look upon me: why hast thou forsaken me? Far from my salvation are the words of my sins.

Psalm 31:10
For my life is wasted with grief: and my years in sighs. My strength is weakened through poverty and my bones are disturbed.

Psalm 38:8
I am afflicted and humbled exceedingly: I roared with the groaning of my heart.

Psalm 39:2
I was dumb, and was humbled, and kept silence from good things: and my sorrow was renewed.

Psalm 39:3
My heart grew hot within me: and in my meditation a fire shall flame out.

Proverbs 28:13
He that hideth his sins, shall not prosper: but he that shall confess, and forsake them, shall obtain mercy.

Psalm 32:2
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