Psalms 38:7
(38-8) For my loins are filled with burning; and there is no soundness in my flesh.
JPS TaNaKH 1917
In The King James Version
For my loins are filled with a loathsome disease: and there is no soundness in my flesh.
In Context
6(38-7) I am bent and bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day.
8(38-9) I am benumbed and sore crushed; I groan by reason of the moaning of my heart.
Cross References
2 Chronicles 21:18And after all this the LORD smote him in his bowels with an incurable disease.
Job 7:5My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin closeth up and breaketh out afresh.
Psalms 41:8(41-9) 'An evil thing cleaveth fast unto him; and now that he lieth, he shall rise up no more.'
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 →