Psalms 38:6
I am bent and brought low; all day long I go about mourning.
Majority Standard Bible
In The King James Version
I am troubled; I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long.
In Context
5My wounds are foul and festering because of my sinful folly.
7For my loins are full of burning pain, and no soundness remains in my body.
Cross References
Job 30:28I go about blackened, but not by the sun. I stand up in the assembly and cry for help.
Psalms 31:10For my life is consumed with grief and my years with groaning; my iniquity has drained my strength, and my bones are wasting away.
Psalms 42:5Why are you downcast, O my soul? Why the unease within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise Him for the salvation of His presence.
Psalms 43:2For You are the God of my refuge. Why have You rejected me? Why must I walk in sorrow because of the enemy’s oppression?
Psalms 88:9My eyes grow dim with grief. I call to You daily, O LORD; I spread out my hands to You.
Psalms 145:14The LORD upholds all who fall and lifts up all who are bowed down.
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 →