Psalms 38:6
My sores are putrified and corrupted, because of my foolishness.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
I am troubled; I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long.
In Context
5For my iniquities are gone over my head : and as a heavy burden are become heavy upon me.
7I am become miserable, and am bowed down even to the end : I walked sorrowful all the day long.
Cross References
Job 30:28I went mourning without indignation; I rose up, and cried in the crowd.
Psalms 31:10Have mercy on me, O Lord, for I am afflicted: my eye is troubled with wrath, my soul, and my belly:
Psalms 42:5These things I remembered, and poured out my soul in me : for I shall go over into the place of the wonderful tabernacle, even to the house of God : With the voice of joy and praise; the noise of one feasting.
Psalms 43:2For thou art God my strength : why hast thou cast me off? and why do I go sorrowful whilst the enemy afflicteth me?
Psalms 88:9Thou hast put away my acquaintance far from me: they have set me an abomination to themselves. I was delivered up, and came not forth:
Psalms 145:14their oxen fat. There is no breach of wall, nor passage, nor crying out in their streets.
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 →