Psalms 38:4

WEB

⁴For my iniquities have gone over my head. As a heavy burden, they are too heavy for me.

KJV

⁴For mine iniquities^[+] are gone over mine head: as an heavy burden they are too heavy for me.

BSB

⁴For my iniquities have overwhelmed me; they are a burden too heavy to bear.

FBV

⁴I'm drowning in guilt—the burden is too heavy to bear.

Extra References

Psalms 40:12

¹²For innumerable evils have surrounded me. My iniquities have overtaken me, so that I am not able to look up. They are more than the hairs of my head. My heart has failed me.

Ezra 9:6

⁶and I said, “My God, I am ashamed and blush to lift up my face to you, my God, for our iniquities have increased over our head, and our guiltiness has grown up to the heavens.

Matthew 11:28

²⁸“Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest.

¹⁴“The yoke of my transgressions is bound by his hand. They are knit together. They have come up on my neck. He made my strength fail. The Lord^[+] has delivered me into their hands, against whom I am not able to stand.

1 Peter 2:24

²⁴He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live to righteousness. You were healed by his wounds.

Leviticus 7:18

¹⁸If any of the meat of the sacrifice of his peace offerings is eaten on the third day, it will not be accepted, and it shall not be credited to him who offers it. It will be an abomination, and the soul who eats any of it will bear his iniquity.

Isaiah 53:11

¹¹After the suffering of his soul, he will see the light^[+] and be satisfied. My righteous servant will justify many by the knowledge of himself; and he will bear their iniquities.