Psalms 38:4
For mine iniquities are gone over my head: as a heavy burden they are too heavy for me.
Darby Translation
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
5My wounds stink, they are corrupt, because of my foolishness.
Cross References
Leviticus 7:18And if [any] of the flesh of the sacrifice of his peace-offering be eaten at all on the third day, it shall not be accepted, it shall not be reckoned to him that hath presented it; it shall be an unclean thing, and the soul that eateth of it shall bear his iniquity.
Job 33:19He is chastened also with pain upon his bed, and with constant strife in his bones;
Psalms 107:17Fools, because of their way of transgression, and because of their iniquities, are afflicted;
Lamentations 1:14The yoke of my transgressions is bound by his hand: they are wreathed, they are come up upon my neck; he hath made my strength to fail; the Lord hath delivered me into hands out of which I am not able to rise up.
1 Peter 2:24who himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, in order that, being dead to sins, we may live to righteousness: by whose stripes ye 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 →