Psalms 38:8
(38:9) I am made faint and crushed to the utmost; I cry aloud because of the groaning of my heart.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
I am feeble and sore broken: I have roared by reason of the disquietness of my heart.
In Context
7(38:8) For my loins are filled with a burning disease, and there is no soundness in my flesh.
9(38:10) Lord, before thee is all my longing; and my sighing is from thee not hidden.
Cross References
Job 30:27My bowels heave, and rest not: the days of affliction have overcome me.
Psalms 22:1“To the chief musician upon Ayeleth-hashachar, a psalm of David.” (22:2) My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? why art thou so far from saving me, and from the words of my loud complaint?
Isaiah 59:11We growl all of us like bears, and like doves do we moan sorely; we ever hope for justice, but there is none; for aid, but it is far from us.
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 →