Psalms 38:4-8
For my iniquities have overwhelmed me; they are a burden too heavy to bear. My wounds are foul and festering because of my sinful folly. I am bent and brought low; all day long I go about mourning. For my loins are full of burning pain, and no soundness remains in my body. I am numb and badly crushed; I groan in anguish of heart.
Berean Standard Bible, public domain. Read all of Psalms 38
13 songs meet this passage
The Monster (feat. Rihanna) · Eminem
resonates with Psalms 38:4-8
The psalmist's cry of being overwhelmed and groaning under his own guilt matches this plea for rescue from a self he can't control.
“Tryin' to hide the pain”
Home · Daughtry
resonates with Psalms 38:1-9
The singer's hidden ache mirrors the psalmist's honest admission of inward groaning before finding relief.
“Since I could hold my head up high”
It's Been Awhile · Staind
resonates with Psalms 38:4
The psalmist describes guilt as a weight too heavy to bear, the same posture of a man who can't lift his head.
Pop Out · Polo G
resonates with Psalms 38:4
A rare moment of genuine regret surfaces, like the psalmist weighed down by guilt over past wrongs.
Little Lion Man (Live from Shepherd's Bush Empire, 2010) · Mumford & Sons
resonates with Psalms 38:4-6
The psalmist's crushing weight of guilt without yet naming a remedy matches the song's unresolved heaviness.
“It's much too late, to save myself from falling”
Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me · George Michael & Elton John
resonates with Psalms 38:4-6
A cry of being overwhelmed by one's own failures, bent low and unable to right oneself alone.
“Have brought me down upon my knees”
Clocks · Coldplay
resonates with Psalms 38:4-6
A psalm of being bowed down under a weight too heavy to carry, much like the song's posture of being brought to the knees.
“These wounds, they will not heal”
Crawling · LINKIN PARK
resonates with Psalms 38:5-6
The psalmist describes wounds that fester and won't heal, giving voice to the same raw, unresolved pain this lyric names.
Sugar, We're Goin Down · Fall Out Boy
strains against Psalms 38:5-8
Where the psalmist's anguish is poured out toward God as a cry for help, this song's anguish has nowhere to go but back into the self-destructive spiral it describes.
“Killing me slow, out the window”
Cruel Summer · Taylor Swift
resonates with Psalms 38:8-9
The exhausted, aching waiting mirrors the psalmist's groaning longing, though here it's directed at a person rather than God.
“Help me, help me, I'm no good at goodbyes”
50 Ways to Say Goodbye · Train
strains against Psalms 38:8-9
Where the psalmist brings real groaning and longing before God, this song turns the same ache into comic deflection rather than honest lament directed anywhere.
Anxiety · Doechii
resonates with Psalms 38:8-10
The psalmist describes anxiety as a physical crushing weight on the body, much like this lyric's bodily imagery.
“I let it build up till it all explodes”
Not My Time · Hotbox
resonates with Psalms 38:8-10
David's own cry of inward turmoil and heart pounding mirrors this bottled-up pressure, though David directs his anguish to God while this song does not.