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Psalm 38:8

I am faint and severely bruised. I have groaned by reason of the anguish of my heart.

6I am in pain and bowed down greatly. I go mourning all day long.
7For my waist is filled with burning. There is no soundness in my flesh.
8I am faint and severely bruised. I have groaned by reason of the anguish of my heart.
9Lord, all my desire is before you. My groaning is not hidden from you.
10My heart throbs. My strength fails me. As for the light of my eyes, it has also left me.
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The groan comes from anguish of heart, while faintness and bruising name a body in pain; neither part of the suffering is softened.

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Where else Scripture says this

6 passages readers most often link with this verse, and the thread each one shares with it.

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Psalm 32:3When I kept silence, my bones wasted away through my groaning all day long.Both passages connect groaning with bodily suffering, describing pain that reaches beyond the heart into flesh and bones.
Job 3:24For my sighing comes before I eat. My groanings are poured out like water.Both passages describe suffering through groaning, with Job comparing the outpouring of his groans to water.
Job 30:28I go mourning without the sun. I stand up in the assembly, and cry for help.Both passages let suffering be heard aloud, through a groan in the psalm and a cry for help in Job.
Isaiah 59:11We all roar like bears and moan sadly like doves. We look for justice, but there is none, for salvation, but it is far off from us.Both passages describe distress that breaks into sound, with groaning in the psalm and roaring and moaning in Isaiah.
Psalm 6:3My soul is also in great anguish. But you, LORD—how long?Both psalms name inward anguish, locating it in the heart here and in the soul in Psalm 6.
Psalm 22:1For the Chief Musician; set to “The Doe of the Morning.” A Psalm by David. My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from helping me, and …Groaning appears in both psalms, expressing anguish here and accompanying a cry about God's distance in Psalm 22.
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Chronic pain. illness or diagnosis. grief.

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Encouragement

There is no relief yet in these lines. The next verse says the groaning is not hidden from God; distress does not have to be concealed from him.

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Cross-reference data from OpenBible.info (CC BY). Scripture from the World English Bible (public domain). Arc diagram after Chris Harrison and Christoph Römhild (2007).