Psalms 38:8 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁸I am feeble and sore broken: I have roared by reason of the disquietness of my heart.

Psalms 38:8 —

Old words in this verse

sore: — greatly, very (as in "sore afraid").

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Original word meaning

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 32:3
When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long.
Job 3:24
For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters.
Job 30:28
I went mourning without the sun: I stood up, and I cried in the congregation.
Isaiah 59:11
We roar all like bears, and mourn sore like doves: we look for judgment, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far off from us.
Psalms 22:1-2
To the chief Musician upon Aijeleth Shahar, A Psalm of David. My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring? …

Topics

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

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. 8)

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].