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Psalms 38:8

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I am feeble and sore broken: I have roared by reason of the disquietness of my heart.
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  1. Job 3:24Rank 1 from verse 8
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    24For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters.

  2. Psalms 32:3Rank 2 from verse 8
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    3When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long.

  3. Job 30:28Rank 3 from verse 8
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    28I went mourning without the sun: I stood up, and I cried in the congregation.

  4. Isaiah 59:11Rank 4 from verse 8
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    11We roar all like bears, and mourn sore like doves: we look for judgment, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far off from us.

  5. Psalms 22:1–2Rank 5 from verse 8
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    1MY God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring?

    2O my God, I cry in the daytime, but thou hearest not; and in the night season, and am not silent.

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Psalms 38:8

COMBINED MEANING

sore

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Sense 1: Painful, grievous, severe, or causing distress. Sense 2: Greatly, exceedingly, or intensely. Sense 3: A wound, ulcer, or tender or diseased place.

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roared

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Past-tense, participial, or adjectival form of roar, meaning to make such a sound, especially in distress or fierceness.

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reason

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A ground or cause; understanding or judgment; to think, discuss, or argue.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Skeat 1893

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heart

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Sense 1: The bodily organ. Sense 2: The inward person: the mind, will, affections, conscience, or moral character.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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7For my loins are filled with a loathsome disease: and there is no soundness in my flesh.

8I am feeble and sore broken: I have roared by reason of the disquietness of my heart.

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9Lord, all my desire is before thee; and my groaning is not hid from thee.

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