Psalms 38:17
For I am ready to fall, my pain forsakes me never.
Open English Bible (US)
In The King James Version
For I am ready to halt, and my sorrow is continually before me.
In Context
16when I utter the hope that those who made scorn of my tottering feet may not rejoice over me.
18I acknowledge my guilt, I am anxious because of my sin:
Cross References
Psalms 13:5But I trust in your kindness: my heart will rejoice in your help.
Psalms 35:19Suffer not those to rejoice over me who are falsely my foes, suffer not those who without cause abhor me to wink with the eye.
Psalms 77:2In the day of my trouble I seek the Lord; in the night I lift my hands in prayer, refusing all comfort.
Micah 4:6“On that day,” says the Lord, “I will assemble the lame. I will gather exiles I punished.
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 →