Psalms 38:8
I have been feeble and smitten — unto excess, I have roared from disquietude of heart.
Young's Literal Translation
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 flanks have been full of drought, And soundness is not in my flesh.
9Lord, before Thee [is] all my desire, And my sighing from Thee hath not been hid.
Cross References
Job 30:27My bowels have boiled, and have not ceased, Gone before me have days of affliction.
Psalms 22:1To the Overseer, on 'The Hind of the Morning.' — A Psalm of David. My God, my God, why hast Thou forsaken me? Far from my salvation, The words of my roaring?
Isaiah 59:11We make a noise as bears — all of us, And as doves we coo sorely; We wait for judgment, and there is none, For salvation — it hath been 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 →