Psalms 38:7 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁷For my loins are filled with a loathsome disease: and there is no soundness in my flesh.

Psalms 38:7 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 102:3
For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as an hearth.
2 Chronicles 21:18-19
And after all this the LORD smote him in his bowels with an incurable disease. …
Psalms 41:8
An evil disease, say they, cleaveth fast unto him: and now that he lieth he shall rise up no more.
Acts 12:23
And immediately the angel of the Lord smote him, because he gave not God the glory: and he was eaten of worms, and gave up the ghost.
Job 7:5
My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin is broken, and become loathsome.

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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. 7)

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].