Psalm 40:12 in every translation
Leer en españolThe same verse in each translation we publish, grouped by language and by the tradition that made it. Numbering is matched for each text (for example, Psalms in the Septuagint).
English
Catholic
DRB Douay-Rheims (Challoner), American Edition 1899 In this text: Psalm 39:13
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.
CPDV Catholic Public Domain Version In this text: Psalm 39:13
For evils without number have surrounded me. My iniquities have taken hold of me, and I was not able to see. They have been multiplied beyond the hairs of my head. And my heart has forsaken me.
Protestant
WEB World English Bible (Classic, with Deuterocanon)
For innumerable evils have surrounded me. My iniquities have overtaken me, so that I am not able to look up. They are more than the hairs of my head. My heart has failed me.
WEBBE World English Bible British Edition (with Deuterocanon)
For innumerable evils have surrounded me. My iniquities have overtaken me, so that I am not able to look up. They are more than the hairs of my head. My heart has failed me.
KJV King James Version (with Apocrypha)
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.
RV Revised Version with Apocrypha
For innumerable evils have compassed me about, mine iniquities have overtaken me, so that I am not able to look up; they are more than the hairs of mine head, and my heart hath failed me.
MSB Majority Standard Bible
For evils without number surround me; my sins have overtaken me, so that I cannot see. They are more than the hairs of my head, and my heart has failed within me.
BSB Berean Standard Bible
For evils without number surround me; my sins have overtaken me, so that I cannot see. They are more than the hairs of my head, and my heart has failed within me.
ASV American Standard Version (1901)
For innumerable evils have compassed me about; Mine iniquities have overtaken me, so that I am not able to look up; They are more than the hairs of my head; And my heart hath failed me.
LSV Literal Standard Version
For innumerable evils have surrounded me, || My iniquities have overtaken me, || And I have not been able to see; They have been more than the hairs of my head, || And my heart has forsaken me.
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Darby Darby Translation
For innumerable evils have compassed me about: mine iniquities have taken hold upon me, so that I cannot see; they are more than the hairs of my head: and my heart hath failed me.
Webster Noah Webster's Bible (1833)
For innumerable evils have encompassed me: my iniquities have taken hold upon me, so that I am not able to look up; they are more than the hairs of my head: therefore my heart faileth me.
GNV Geneva Bible (1599)
For innumerable troubles haue compassed mee: my sinnes haue taken such holde vpon me, that I am not able to looke vp: yea, they are moe in nomber then the heares of mine head: therefore mine heart hath failed me.
ULB Unlocked Literal Bible
Troubles that cannot be numbered surround me; my iniquities have caught up with me so that I am no longer able to see anything; they are more than the hairs on my head, and my heart has failed me.
Read in context · Unlocked Literal Bible. Copyright © 2017 Door43 World Missions Community. Text from eBible.org (https://ebible.org/engULB/), unaltered. Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Jewish
JPS JPS Tanakh (1917)
(40-13) For innumerable evils have compassed me about, mine iniquities have overtaken me, so that I am not able to look up; they are more than the hairs of my head, and my heart hath failed me.
Individual translator
Brenton Brenton's English Septuagint In this text: Psalm 39:13
For innumerable evils have encompassed me; my transgressions have taken hold of me, and I could not see; they are multiplied more than the hairs of my head; and my heart has failed me.
LXXUP Updated Brenton English Septuagint In this text: Psalm 39:13
For innumerable evils have encompassed me; My transgressions have taken hold of me, and I could not see; They are multiplied more than the hairs of my head; And my heart has failed me.
YLT Young's Literal Translation
For compassed me have evils innumerable, Overtaken me have mine iniquities, And I have not been able to see; They have been more than the hairs of my head, And my heart hath forsaken me.
FBV Free Bible Version
For I'm experiencing so many problems—I can't even count them! My sins have piled up so high I can't see over them. They're more than the number of hairs on my head! I feel like giving up!
Read in context · Free Bible Version. Copyright © 2018 Dr. Jonathan Gallagher. Text from eBible.org (https://ebible.org/engfbv/), unaltered. Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Scholarly edition
BBE Bible in Basic English
For unnumbered evils are round about me; my sins have overtaken me, so that I am bent down with their weight; they are more than the hairs of my head, my strength is gone because of them.
Spanish
Protestant
RV1909 Reina-Valera 1909
Porque me han cercado males hasta no [haber] cuento: hanme comprendido mis maldades, y no puedo levantar la vista: hanse aumentado más que los cabellos de mi cabeza, y mi corazón me falta.
ONBV Biblica Open New Living Bible (Nueva Biblia Viva 2008)
Son tantos los problemas que me rodean que no los puedo ni contar. Se han acumulado tanto que no me dejan encontrar la salida. Son más que los cabellos de mi cabeza. Mi corazón se debilita.
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PDT God's Word for You (Latin American Textual Bible)
Porque me rodearon calamidades incontables. Me alcanzaron mis iniquidades, Y no puedo levantar la vista. Son más numerosas que los cabellos de mi cabeza, Y mi corazón me falla.
Read in context · Palabra de Dios para ti © 2020 Asociación Bíblica Latinoamericana. Texto de eBible.org (https://ebible.org/spapddpt/), sin cambios. Licencia CC BY-SA 4.0.
Individual translator
VBL Free Bible Version (Spanish)
Porque estoy pasando por muchos problemas, ¡Son tantos que no puedo contarlos! Mis pecados se han acumulado formando una gran pila, no puedo ni siquiera ver por encima de ellos. ¡Son más que el número de cabellos en mi cabeza! ¡Siento que me voy a rendir!
Read in context · Versión Biblia Libre. Copyright © 2018-2020 Jonathan Gallagher y Shelly Barrios de Avila. Texto de eBible.org (https://ebible.org/spavbl/), sin cambios. Licencia CC BY-SA 4.0.
BES Bible in Simple Spanish (2026)
Me rodean males sin número; mis pecados me han alcanzado y me doblo bajo su peso. Son más que los cabellos de mi cabeza, y por ellos se han agotado mis fuerzas.
Read in context · La Biblia en Español Sencillo, traducida y editada por Irma Flores (AudioBiblia.org).
Greek
Scholarly edition
LXX Brenton's Greek Septuagint In this text: Psalm 39:13
Ὅτι περιέσχον με κακὰ, ὧν οὐκ ἔστιν ἀριθμὸς, κατέλαβόν με αἱ ἀνομίαι μου, καὶ οὐκ ἠδυνάσθην τοῦ βλέπειν· ἐπληθύνθησαν ὑπὲρ τὰς τρίχας τῆς κεφαλῆς μου, καὶ ἡ καρδία μου ἐγκατέλιπέ με.
Hebrew
Scholarly edition
WLC Westminster Leningrad Codex In this text: Psalm 40:13
כִּ֤י אָפְפ֥וּ־עָלַ֨י ׀ רָע֡וֹת עַד־אֵ֬ין מִסְפָּ֗ר הִשִּׂיג֣וּנִי עֲ֭וֺנֹתַי וְלֹא־יָכֹ֣לְתִּי לִרְא֑וֹת עָצְמ֥וּ מִשַּֽׂעֲר֥וֹת רֹ֝אשִׁ֗י וְלִבִּ֥י עֲזָבָֽנִי׃
Latin
Catholic
VUL Clementine Vulgate In this text: Psalm 39:13
Quoniam circumdederunt me mala quorum non est numerus; comprehenderunt me iniquitates meæ, et non potui ut viderem. Multiplicatæ sunt super capillos capitis mei, et cor meum dereliquit me.
Church Slavonic
Orthodox
Slavonic Church Slavonic Bible (Elizabeth Bible) In this text: Psalm 39:13
Ꙗ҆́кѡ ѡ҆держа́ша мѧ̀ ѕла̑ѧ, и҆̀мже нѣ́сть числа̀: постиго́ша мѧ̀ беззакѡ́нїѧ моѧ̑, и҆ не возмого́хъ зрѣ́ти: ᲂу҆мно́жишасѧ па́че вла̑съ главы̀ моеѧ̀, и҆ се́рдце моѐ ѡ҆ста́ви мѧ̀.
Read in context · Church Slavonic text: Ponomar Project (github.com/typiconman/ponomar), © 2006–2018 Aleksandr Andreev and others, licensed under the GNU General Public License v3 or later. Changes for this site (2026-10-18): lectionary pericope markers, marginal glosses and the closing note of Genesis removed, Psalm verses renumbered to the Russian Synodal numbering, joined verses noted; the words are unchanged.
Russian
Orthodox
Synodal Russian Synodal Bible (1876) In this text: Psalm 39:13
ибо окружили меня беды неисчислимые; постигли меня беззакония мои, так что видеть не могу: их более, нежели волос на голове моей; сердце мое оставило меня.
Greek (modern)
Individual translator
Vamvas Modern Greek Bible: Vamvas (1850)
Διότι με περιεκύκλωσαν αναρίθμητα κακά· με κατέφθασαν αι ανομίαι μου, και δεν δύναμαι να θεωρώ αυτάς· επληθύνθησαν υπέρ τας τρίχας της κεφαλής μου· και η καρδία μου με εγκαταλείπει.
Serbian
Individual translator
DK Serbian Bible: Daničić–Karadžić (Cyrillic)
Јер ме опколише зла небројена; стигоше ме неправде моје, да не могу гледати; има их више него косе на глави мојој, срце ме моје остави.
DK latinica Serbian Bible: Daničić–Karadžić (Latin script)
Jer me opkoliše zla nebrojena; stigoše me nepravde moje, da ne mogu gledati; ima ih više nego kose na glavi mojoj, srce me moje ostavi.
Arabic
Protestant
SVD Arabic Bible: Smith–Van Dyck (1865)
لِأَنَّ شُرُورًا لَا تُحْصَى قَدِ ٱكْتَنَفَتْنِي. حَاقَتْ بِي آثَامِي، وَلَا أَسْتَطِيعُ أَنْ أُبْصِرَ. كَثُرَتْ أَكْثَرَ مِنْ شَعْرِ رَأْسِي، وَقَلْبِي قَدْ تَرَكَنِي.
Not in these translations (8)
Tyndale, Scío, PT1904, PT, RP2018, TR, Nestle 1904, SBLGNT