Psalms 38:5
For my iniquities are gone over my head : and as a heavy burden are become heavy upon me.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
My wounds stink and are corrupt because of my foolishness.
In Context
6My sores are putrified and corrupted, because of my foolishness.
Cross References
Psalms 32:3Because I was silent my bones grew old; whilst I cried out all the day long.
Psalms 40:13For evils without number have surrounded me; my iniquities have overtaken me, and I was not able to see. They are multiplied above the hairs of my head : and my heart hath forsaken me.
Psalms 69:5They are multiplied above the hairs of my head, who hate me without cause. My enemies are grown strong who have wrongfully persecuted me: then did I pay that which I took not away.
Jeremiah 8:22Is there no balm in Galaad? or is no physician there? Why then is not the wound of the daughter of my people closed?
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 →