Psalms 38:5 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁵My wounds stink and are corrupt because of my foolishness.

Psalms 38:5 —

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Original word meaning

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 69:5
O God, thou knowest my foolishness; and my sins are not hid from thee.
Jeremiah 8:22
Is there no balm in Gilead; is there no physician there? why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered?
Isaiah 1:5-6
Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint. …
Psalms 32:3
When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long.
Psalms 38:7
For my loins are filled with a loathsome disease: and there is no soundness in my flesh.

Topics

Afflictions and Adversities Blessing Conviction Enquiring of God Guilt Importunity Prayer Remorse

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-11)

The title of this psalm is very observable; it is a psalm to bring to remembrance; the 70 th psalm, which was likewise penned in a day of affliction, is so entitled. It is designed, 1. To bring to his own remembrance. We will suppose it penned when he was sick and in pain, and then it teaches us that times of sickness are times to bring to remembrance, to bring the sin to remembrance, for which Go…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 5)

5-8. The loathsomeness, corruption, and wasting torture of severe physical disease set forth his mental anguish [Psa 38:6]. It is possible some bodily disease was connected. The loins are the seat of strength. His exhaustion left him only the power to groan [Psa 38:9].