Psalm 40:12 {39:13}
Good News Translation
I am surrounded by many troubles--too many to count! My sins have caught up with me, and I can no longer see; they are more than the hairs of my head, and I have lost my courage.

New Revised Standard Version
For evils have encompassed me without number; my iniquities have overtaken me, until I cannot see; they are more than the hairs of my head, and my heart fails me.

Contemporary English Version
I have more troubles than I can count. My sins are all around me, and I can't find my way. My sins outnumber the hairs on my head, and I feel weak.

New American Bible
But evils surround me until they cannot be counted. My sins overtake me, so that I can no longer see. They are more numerous than the hairs of my head; my courage fails me.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For evils without number have surrounded me; my iniquities have overtaken me, and I was not able to see. They are multiplied above the hairs of my head: and my heart hath forsaken me.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

For evils without number have surrounded me; my iniquities have overtaken me, and I was not able to see. They are multiplied above the hairs of my head: and my heart hath forsaken me.

innumerable

Psalm 22:11-19 Depart not from me. For tribulation is very near: for there is none to help me. . . .

Hebrews 4:15 For we have not a high priest who cannot have compassion on our infirmities: but one tempted in all things like as we are, without sin.

mine

Psalm 38:4 For my iniquities are gone over my head: and as a heavy burden are become heavy upon me.

Isaiah 53:6 All we like sheep have gone astray, every one hath turned aside into his own way: and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.

Luke 18:13,14 And the publican, standing afar off, would not so much as lift up his eyes towards heaven; but struck his breast, saying: O God, be merciful to me a sinner. . . .

1 Peter 3:18 Because Christ also died once for our sins, the just for the unjust: that he might offer us to God, being put to death indeed in the flesh, but enlivened in the spirit,

they are

Psalm 19:12 Who can understand sins? from my secret ones cleanse me, O Lord:

Psalm 69:4 They are multiplied above the hairs of my head, who hate me without cause. My enemies are grown strong who have wrongfully persecuted me: then did I pay that which I took not away.

heart

Psalm 73:26 For thee my flesh and my heart hath fainted away: thou art the God of my heart, and the God that is my portion for ever.

Genesis 42:28 And said to his brethren: My money is given me again; behold it is in the sack. And they were astonished, and troubled, and said to one another: What is this that God hath done unto us?

Luke 21:26 Men withering away for fear and expectation of what shall come upon the whole world. For the powers of heaven shall be moved.

faileth [heb.

Context
I Waited Patiently for the LORD
11Withhold not thou, O Lord, thy tender mercies from me: thy mercy and thy truth have always upheld me. 12For evils without number have surrounded me; my iniquities have overtaken me, and I was not able to see. They are multiplied above the hairs of my head: and my heart hath forsaken me.13Be pleased, O Lord, to deliver me. Look down, O Lord, to help me.…
Cross References
Luke 21:20
And when you shall see Jerusalem compassed about with an army, then know that the desolation thereof is at hand.

Psalm 18:5
The sorrows of hell encompassed me: and the snares of death prevented me.

Psalm 19:12
Who can understand sins? from my secret ones cleanse me, O Lord:

Psalm 25:17
The troubles of my heart are multiplied: deliver me from my necessities.

Psalm 38:4
For my iniquities are gone over my head: and as a heavy burden are become heavy upon me.

Psalm 65:3
The words of the wicked have prevailed over us: and thou wilt pardon our transgressions.

Psalm 69:4
They are multiplied above the hairs of my head, who hate me without cause. My enemies are grown strong who have wrongfully persecuted me: then did I pay that which I took not away.

Psalm 73:26
For thee my flesh and my heart hath fainted away: thou art the God of my heart, and the God that is my portion for ever.

Psalm 116:3
The sorrows of death have compassed me: and the perils of hell have found me. I met with trouble and sorrow:

Proverbs 5:22
He shall die, because he hath not received instruction, and in the multitude of his folly he shall be deceived.

Psalm 40:11
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