Psalms 38:7
For my flanks have been full of drought, And soundness is not in my flesh.
Young's Literal Translation
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 have been bent down, I have been bowed down — unto excess, All the day I have gone mourning.
8I have been feeble and smitten — unto excess, I have roared from disquietude of heart.
Cross References
2 Chronicles 21:18And after all this hath Jehovah plagued him in his bowels by a disease for which there is no healing,
Job 7:5Clothed hath been my flesh [with] worms, And a clod of dust, My skin hath been shrivelled and is loathsome,
Psalms 41:8A thing of Belial is poured out on him, And because he lay down he riseth not again.
Acts 12:23and presently there smote him a messenger of the Lord, because he did not give the glory to God, and having been eaten of worms, he expired.
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 →