Psalms 38:4
For, mine iniquities, have passed over my head, Like a heavy burden, they are too heavy for me:
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
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 of bad odour—they have festered, by reason of my folly:
Cross References
Leviticus 7:18And, if any of the flesh of his peace-offering, be at all eaten, on the third day, he that brought it near [shall not be accepted] it shall not be reckoned to him, unclean, shall it be,—and the person who shall eat thereof, shall bear his iniquity.
Job 33:19Or he is chastised with pain, upon his bed, and, the strife of his bones, is unceasing!
Psalms 107:17The perverse, by reason of their transgression, and on account of their iniquities, are afflicted;
Lamentations 1:14The yoke of my transgressions, hath been bound, by his hand—They have intertwined themselves, have come up on my neck, it hath paralysed my strength,—My Lord, hath delivered me, into the hands of those against whom I cannot rise up.
1 Peter 2:24Who, our sins, himself, bare up, in his body, unto the tree, in order that we, from our sins getting away, in righteousness, might live,—by whose stripes, ye have been 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 →