Psalms 38:11
\38:10\My heart goes out in pain, my strength is wasting away; as for the light of my eyes, it is gone from me.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my sore; and my kinsmen stand afar off.
In Context
10\38:9\Lord, all my desire is before you; my sorrow is not kept secret from you.
12\38:11\My lovers and my friends keep away from my disease; my relations keep far away.
Cross References
Job 19:13He has taken my brothers far away from me; they have seen my fate and have become strange to me.
Psalms 31:11\31:10\My life goes on in sorrow, and my years in weeping; my strength is almost gone because of my sin, and my bones are wasted away.
Isaiah 53:4But it was our pain he took, and our diseases were put on him: while to us he seemed as one diseased, on whom God's punishment had come.
Matthew 26:56But all this has taken place so that the writings of the prophets might come true. Then all his disciples went from him in flight.
Luke 22:54And they made him a prisoner and took him away to the house of the high priest. But Peter went after them at a distance.
John 16:32See, a time is coming, yes, it is now here, when you will go away in all directions, every man to his house, and I will be by myself: but I am not by myself, because the Father is with me.
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 →