God’s Word Translation
Psalms 38:7
7My insides are filled with burning pain, and no healthy spot is left on my body.
Psalms 38:7 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)For my loins are filled with a loathsome disease: and there is no soundness in my flesh.
- New International Version (NIV)My back is filled with searing pain; there is no health in my body.
- English Standard Version (ESV)For my sides are filled with burning, and there is no soundness in my flesh.
- New King James Version (NKJV)For my loins are full of inflammation, And there is no soundness in my flesh.
Context of Psalms 38:7
5My wounds smell rotten. They fester because of my stupidity. 6I am bent over and bowed down very low. All day I walk around in mourning. My insides are filled with burning pain, and no healthy spot is left on my body. 8I am numb and completely devastated. I roar because my heart’s in turmoil. 9You know all my desires, O Lord, and my groaning has not been hidden from you.
Read all of Psalms 38Psalms 38:7 word by word
כִּֽי־כְ֭סָלַי מָלְא֣וּ נִקְלֶ֑ה וְאֵ֥ין מְ֝תֹ֗ם בִּבְשָׂרִֽי׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Psalms 38:7
- Psalms 41:8“A devilish disease has attached itself to him. He will never leave his sickbed.”
- 2 Chronicles 21:18After this, the Lord struck Jehoram with an incurable intestinal disease.
- Job 7:5My body is covered with maggots and scabs. My skin is crusted over with sores; then they ooze.
- Job 30:18With great strength he grabs my clothes. He seizes me by the collar of my robe.
- Isaiah 38:14I chirped like swallows and cranes. I cooed like doves. My eyes were tired from looking up to heaven. I’ve suffered miserably, O Lord! Please help me!
Commentaries on Psalms 38:7
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 7For my loins are filled with a loathsome disease - Or rather, a burning; נקלה nikleh, from קלה kalah, to fry, scorch, etc., hence נקלה nikleh, a burning, or strongly feverish disease. There is no soundness in my flesh - All without and all within bears evidence that the whole of my solids and fluids are corrupt.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 7For my bones are filled with a loathsome disease - This would seem to indicate the seat of the disease, though not its nature. The word used here, according to Gesenius (Lexicon), properly denotes the internal muscles of the loins near the kidneys, to which the fat adheres. The word rendered “loathsome” - the word “disease” being supplied by our translators - is derived from קלה qâlâh a word which means to roast, to parch, as fruit, grain, etc.; and…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 5-8The severity of God’s punishment brings anguish that affects every part of the psalmist’s being.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 5-85-8. 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].Read the comment
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Commentaries on Psalms 38
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- The Treasury of David
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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