Psalms 38:4
For my iniquities have gone over my head. As a heavy burden, they are too heavy for me.
World English Bible Classic
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
5My wounds are loathsome and corrupt because of my foolishness.
Cross References
Leviticus 7:18If any of the meat of the sacrifice of his peace offerings is eaten on the third day, it will not be accepted, and it shall not be credited to him who offers it. It will be an abomination, and the soul who eats any of it will bear his iniquity.
Job 33:19“He is chastened also with pain on his bed, with continual strife in his bones,
Psalms 107:17Fools are afflicted because of their disobedience, and because of their iniquities.
Lamentations 1:14“The yoke of my transgressions is bound by his hand. They are knit together. They have come up on my neck. He made my strength fail. The Lord has delivered me into their hands, against whom I am not able to stand.
1 Peter 2:24He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live to righteousness. You were healed by his wounds.
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 →