Psalms 38:6 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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Chapter 38

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⁶I am troubled; I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long.

Psalms 38:6 —

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Original word meaning

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Job 30:28
I went mourning without the sun: I stood up, and I cried in the congregation.
Psalms 35:14
I behaved myself as though he had been my friend or brother: I bowed down heavily, as one that mourneth for his mother.
Psalms 42:9
I will say unto God my rock, Why hast thou forgotten me? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?
Psalms 31:10
For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing: my strength faileth because of mine iniquity, and my bones are consumed.
Psalms 145:14
The LORD upholdeth all that fall, and raiseth up all those that be bowed down.

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. 6)

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].