Psalms 38:4
For my iniquities have gone over my head; Like a heavy burden, they are more than I can bear.
Noyes Bible
In The King James Version
For mine iniquities are gone over mine head: as an heavy burden they are too heavy for me.
In Context
3There is no soundness in my flesh, because of thine anger; Nor rest in my bones, because of my sin.
5My wounds putrefy and are loathsome on account of my folly.
Cross References
Job 33:19He is chastened also with pain upon his bed, And with a continual agitation of his bones,
Psalms 107:17The foolish, because of their transgressions, And because of their iniquities, were afflicted;
Lamentations 1:14“The yoke of my transgressions is fastened in his hand; they are twisted together; They are laid upon my neck; he hath made my strength to fall; The Lord hath delivered me into their hands, against whom I cannot stand.
1 Peter 2:24who himself bore our sins in his own body on the cross, that we, having died to our sins, should live to righteousness; by whose stripes ye were healed.
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 →