Psalms 38:18
For I am ready for scourges : and my sorrow is continually before me.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
For I will declare mine iniquity; I will be sorry for my sin.
In Context
19For I will declare my inequity : and I will think for my sin.
Cross References
Job 33:27He shall look upon men, and shall say : I have sinned, and indeed I have offended, and I have not received what I have deserved.
Psalms 51:3Have mercy on me, O God, according to thy great mercy. And according to the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my iniquity.
2 Corinthians 7:7And not by his coming only, but also by the consolation, wherewith he was comforted in you, relating to us your desire, your mourning, your zeal for me, so that I rejoiced the more.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 38:13-22
Sorrowful Complaints. 12 They also that seek after my life lay snares for me: and they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and imagine deceits all the day long. 13 But I, as a deaf man, heard not; and I was as a dumb man that openeth not his mouth. 14 Thus I was as a man that heareth not, and in whose mouth are no reproofs. 15 For in thee, O Lord , do I hope: thou wilt hear, O Lord my God. 16 For I said, Hear me, lest otherwise they should rejoice over me: when my foot slippeth, they magnify themselves… Read the whole commentary →