Psa 40:12
For innumerable evils have compassed me about: mine iniquities have taken hold upon me, so that I am not able to look up; they are more than the hairs of mine head: therefore my heart faileth me. {falleth: Heb. forsaketh}
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For mine iniquities are gone over mine head: as an heavy burden they are too heavy for me.
My flesh and my heart faileth: {but} God {is} the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever. {strength: Heb. rock}
They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of mine head: they that would destroy me, {being} mine enemies wrongfully, are mighty: then I restored {that} which I took not away.
The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow. {gat...: Heb. found me}
And the publican, standing afar off, would not lift up so much as {his} eyes unto heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying, God be merciful to me a sinner.
All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all. {laid...: Heb. made the iniquity of us all to meet on him}
Who can understand {his} errors? cleanse thou me from secret {faults}.
Be not far from me; for trouble {is} near; for {there is} none to help. {none...: Heb. not a helper}
For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:
Men's hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.
For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as {we are, yet} without sin.
And he said unto his brethren, My money is restored; and, lo, {it is} even in my sack: and their heart failed {them}, and they were afraid, saying one to another, What {is} this {that} God hath done unto us? {failed...: Heb. went forth}
For mine iniquities are gone over mine head: as an heavy burden they are too heavy for me.
Who can understand {his} errors? cleanse thou me from secret {faults}.
My flesh and my heart faileth: {but} God {is} the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever. {strength: Heb. rock}
I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me.
For I acknowledge my transgressions: and my sin {is} ever before me.
Iniquities prevail against me: {as for} our transgressions, thou shalt purge them away. {iniquities: Heb. Words, or, Matters of iniquities}
My mouth shall shew forth thy righteousness {and} thy salvation all the day; for I know not the numbers {thereof}.
{Is} not thy wickedness great? and thine iniquities infinite?
And now my soul is poured out upon me; the days of affliction have taken hold upon me.
Hear me speedily, O LORD: my spirit faileth: hide not thy face from me, lest I be like unto them that go down into the pit. {lest...: or, for I am become like, etc}
They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of mine head: they that would destroy me, {being} mine enemies wrongfully, are mighty: then I restored {that} which I took not away.
{If} I should count them, they are more in number than the sand: when I awake, I am still with thee.
And when he had begun to reckon, one was brought unto him, which owed him ten thousand talents. {talents: a talent is seven hundred and fifty ounces of silver, which after five shillings the ounce is pounds shillings}
And the publican, standing afar off, would not lift up so much as {his} eyes unto heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying, God be merciful to me a sinner.
For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.
If he will contend with him, he cannot answer him one of a thousand.
Help me, O LORD my God: O save me according to thy mercy:
Then called I upon the name of the LORD; O LORD, I beseech thee, deliver my soul.