Psalms 38:8
I am benumbed and crushed exceedingly,—I have cried aloud because of the groaning of my heart.
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
I am feeble and sore broken: I have roared by reason of the disquietness of my heart.
In Context
7For, my loins, are filled with inflammation, and there is no soundness in my flesh:
9O My Lord! before thee, is all my longing, and, my sighing, from thee, hath not been hid:
Cross References
Job 30:27I boiled within me, and rested not, There confronted me—days of affliction;
Psalms 22:1My GOD, my GOD, why hast thou forsaken me? Far from saving me, The words of my loud lamentation?
Isaiah 59:11We growl like bears all of us, And, like doves, do we, mournfully coo,—We wait For justice, and there is none, For salvation it is far from us!
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 →