Psalms 38:7
(38:8) For my loins are filled with a burning disease, and there is no soundness in my flesh.
Leeser Tanakh
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 double; I am bowed down to the utmost; all the day long I go about full of grief.
8(38:9) I am made faint and crushed to the utmost; I cry aloud because of the groaning of my heart.
Cross References
2 Chronicles 21:18And after all this did the Lord afflict him in his bowels with a disease which was incurable.
Job 7:5My flesh is covered with worms and clods of dust: my skin is burst open, and become loathsome.
Psalms 41:8(41:9) “His godless deed [say they] is poured out over him: as he lieth there he will never more rise up again.”
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 →