Psalms 38:4
\38:3\My flesh is wasted because of your wrath; and there is no peace in my bones because of my sin.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
For mine iniquities are gone over mine head: as an heavy burden they are too heavy for me.
In Context
3\38:2\For your arrows have gone into my flesh, and I am crushed under the weight of your hand.
Cross References
Leviticus 7:18And if any of the flesh of the peace-offering is taken as food on the third day, it will not be pleasing to God and will not be put to the account of him who gives it; it will be unclean and a cause of sin to him who takes it as food.
Job 33:19Pain is sent on him as a punishment, while he is on his bed; there is no end to the trouble in his bones;
Psalms 107:17Foolish men, because of their sins, and because of their wrongdoing, are troubled;
Lamentations 1:14A watch is kept on my sins; they are joined together by his hand, they have come on to my neck; he has made my strength give way: the Lord has given me up into the hands of those against whom I have no power.
1 Peter 2:24He took our sins on himself, giving his body to be nailed on the tree, so that we, being dead to sin, might have a new life in righteousness, and by his wounds we have been made well.
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 →