Psalms 38:4
My heart grew hot within me, and, during my meditation, a fire would flare up.
Catholic Public Domain Version
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
3I was silenced and humbled, and I was quiet before good things, and my sorrow was renewed.
Cross References
Leviticus 7:18If anyone will have eaten from the flesh of the victim of peace offerings on the third day, the oblation will be nullified; neither will it benefit the one who offered it. But instead, whatever soul will contaminate itself with such foods will be guilty of a betrayal.
Job 33:19Likewise, he rebukes by sorrow in bed, and he causes all of his bones to become weak.
Lamentations 1:14NUN. Vigilant is the yoke of my iniquities. They have been folded together in his hand and imposed on my neck. My virtue has been weakened. The Lord has given me into a hand, out of which I am not able to rise.
1 Peter 2:24He himself bore our sins in his body upon the tree, so that we, having died to sin, would live for justice. By his wounds, you have been healed.
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 →