Psalms 32:3
When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long.
Context
This verse from Psalms Chapter 32 connects to 10 cross-references. A wisdom thanksgiving psalm attributed to David, counted among the seven penitential psalms. He describes the blessed state of the person whose transgression is forgiven and sin covered, having experienced the alternative misery of unconfessed sin when his bones wasted …
Other Translations
When I kept silence, my bones wasted away Through my groaning all the day long.
When I have kept silence, become old have my bones, Through my roaring all the day.
When I kept my mouth shut, my bones were wasted, because of my crying all through the day.
Cross References
Thy sons have fainted, they lie at the head of all the streets, as a wild bull in a net: …
For the iniquity of his covetousness was I wroth, and smote him: I hid me, and was wroth, and he …
We roar all like bears, and mourn sore like doves: we look for judgment, but there is none; for salvation, …
I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus; Thou hast chastised me, and I was chastised, as a bullock unaccustomed …
Surely after that I was turned, I repented; and after that I was instructed, I smote upon my thigh: I …
Judah is gone into captivity because of affliction, and because of great servitude: she dwelleth among the heathen, she findeth …
My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones.
Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer.
And he went and joined himself to a citizen of that country; and he sent him into his fields to …
And he would fain have filled his belly with the husks that the swine did eat: and no man gave …