Psalms 38:4
There is no health in my flesh, because of thy wrath : there is no peace for my bones, because of my sins.
Douay-Rheims 1899
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
3For thy arrows are fastened in me : and thy hand hath been strong upon me.
5For my iniquities are gone over my head : and as a heavy burden are become heavy upon me.
Cross References
Leviticus 7:18If any man eat of the flesh of the victim of peace offerings on the third day, the oblation shall be of no effect, neither shall it profit the offerer: yea rather whatsoever soul shall defile itself with such meat, shall be guilty of transgression.
Job 33:19He rebuketh also by sorrow in the bed, and he maketh all his bones to wither.
Psalms 107:17He took them out of the way of their iniquity: for they were brought low for their injustices.
Lamentations 1:14Nun. The yoke of my iniquities hath watched: they are folded together in his hand, and put upon my neck: my strength is weakened: the Lord hath delivered me into a hand out of which I am not able to rise.
1 Peter 2:24Who his own self bore our sins in his body upon the tree: that we, being dead to sins, should live to justice: by whose stripes you were 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 →