Psalms 38:6
I am bent, I am bowed down very low. All the day, have I gloomily walked;
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
I am troubled; I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long.
In Context
5My wounds are of bad odour—they have festered, by reason of my folly:
7For, my loins, are filled with inflammation, and there is no soundness in my flesh:
Cross References
Job 30:28In gloom, I walked along, without sun, I arose—in the convocation, I cried out for help;
Psalms 31:10For, consumed with sorrow, is my life, and my years with sighing,—My strength hath staggered with my humiliation, and, my bones, are without marrow.
Psalms 42:5Why shouldst thou be cast down, O my soul? And [why] shouldst thou moan over me? Wait thou for God, for yet shall I praise him, As the triumph of my presence.
Psalms 43:2For, thou, art my defending God—Wherefore hast thou rejected me? Wherefore in gloom should I wander, because of the oppression of an enemy?
Psalms 88:9Mine eye, hath dimmed through affliction; I have called upon thee, O Yahweh, all day long, I have spread out, unto thee, my hands.
Psalms 145:14Yahweh is ready to uphold all who are falling, and to raise all who are laid prostrate.
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 →