Psalms 38:8
I am faint and severely bruised. I have groaned because of the disquietness of my heart.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
I am feeble and sore broken: I have roared by reason of the disquietness of my heart.
In Context
7For my loins are filled with burning, and there is no soundness in my flesh.
9LORD, all my desire is before thee, and my groaning is not hid from thee.
Cross References
Job 30:27My heart is troubled, and does not rest. Days of affliction have come upon me.
Psalms 22:1My God, my God, why have thou forsaken me, far from helping me, [and] the words of my groaning?
Isaiah 59:11We all roar like bears, and moan greatly like doves. We look for justice, but there is none, for salvation, but it is far off from us.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 38:2-12
Sorrowful Complaints. 1 O Lord , rebuke me not in thy wrath: neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure. 2 For thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand presseth me sore. 3 There is no soundness in my flesh because of thine anger; neither is there any rest in my bones because of my sin. 4 For mine iniquities are gone over mine head: as a heavy burden they are too heavy for me. 5 My wounds stink and are corrupt because of my foolishness. 6 I am troubled; I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long. 7… Read the whole commentary →