Psalms 38:17
(38:18) For I am prepared for [my] downfall, and my pain is continually before me.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
For I am ready to halt, and my sorrow is continually before me.
In Context
18(38:19) For I will tell of my iniquity; I will be grieved because of my sin.
Cross References
Psalms 13:5(13:6) But I trust in thy kindness, let my heart be glad because of thy salvation:
Psalms 35:19Let not rejoice over me those that are my enemies wrongfully: [nor] let those who hate me without cause wink with the eye.
Psalms 77:2(77:3) On the day of my distress I sought the Lord; in the night my hand was stretched out, and did not cease: my soul refused to be comforted.
Micah 4:6On that day, saith the Lord, will I assemble her that halteth, and her that is driven out will I gather, and her to whom I have done evil;
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 →