Psalms 38:7
For my waist is filled with burning. There is no soundness in my flesh.
World English Bible Classic
In The King James Version
For my loins are filled with a loathsome disease: and there is no soundness in my flesh.
In Context
6I am in pain and bowed down greatly. I go mourning all day long.
8I am faint and severely bruised. I have groaned by reason of the anguish of my heart.
Cross References
2 Chronicles 21:18After all this the LORD struck him in his bowels with an incurable disease.
Job 7:5My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust. My skin closes up, and breaks out afresh.
Psalms 41:8“An evil disease”, they say, “has afflicted him. Now that he lies he shall rise up no more.”
Acts 12:23Immediately an angel of the Lord struck him, because he didn’t give God the glory. Then he was eaten by worms and died.
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 →