Psalms 38:4
For that my guilt is gone over my head: it weighs like a burden too heavy for me.
Open English Bible (US)
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
3In my flesh is no soundness because of your anger, no health in my bones, because of my sin.
5My wounds stink and fester, for my foolishness I am tormented.
Cross References
Psalms 107:17Some were sick from their wicked ways, and suffering because of their sins.
1 Peter 2:24And he ‘himself carried our sins’ in his own body to the cross, so that we might die to our sins, and live for righteousness. ‘His bruising was your healing.’
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 →