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Psalms 38:6
6I am bent over and racked with pain. All day long I walk around filled with grief.
Psalms 38:6 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)I am troubled; I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long.
- New International Version (NIV)I am bowed down and brought very low; all day long I go about mourning.
- English Standard Version (ESV)I am utterly bowed down and prostrate; all the day I go about mourning.
- New King James Version (NKJV)I am troubled, I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long.
Context of Psalms 38:6
4My guilt overwhelms me— it is a burden too heavy to bear. 5My wounds fester and stink because of my foolish sins. I am bent over and racked with pain. All day long I walk around filled with grief. 7A raging fever burns within me, and my health is broken. 8I am exhausted and completely crushed. My groans come from an anguished heart.
Read all of Psalms 38Psalms 38:6 word by word
נַעֲוֵ֣יתִי שַׁחֹ֣תִי עַד־מְאֹ֑ד כָּל־הַ֝יּ֗וֹם קֹדֵ֥ר הִלָּֽכְתִּי׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Psalms 38:6
- Psalms 35:14I was sad, as though they were my friends or family, as if I were grieving for my own mother.
- Psalms 42:5Why am I discouraged? Why is my heart so sad? I will put my hope in God! I will praise him again— my Savior and
- Psalms 57:6My enemies have set a trap for me. I am weary from distress. They have dug a deep pit in my path, but they themselves have fallen into it. Interlude
- Psalms 145:14The Lord helps the fallen and lifts those bent beneath their loads.
- Psalms 6:6I am worn out from sobbing. All night I flood my bed with weeping, drenching it with my tears.
- Psalms 31:10I am dying from grief; my years are shortened by sadness. Sin has drained my strength; I am wasting away from within.
- Psalms 42:9“O God my rock,” I cry, “why have you forgotten me? Why must I wander around in grief, oppressed by my enemies?”
- Psalms 43:2For you are God, my only safe haven. Why have you tossed me aside? Why must I wander around in grief, oppressed by my enemies?
- Psalms 88:9My eyes are blinded by my tears. Each day I beg for your help, O Lord; I lift my hands to you for mercy.
- Job 30:28I walk in gloom, without sunlight. I stand in the public square and cry for help.
- Isaiah 38:14Delirious, I chattered like a swallow or a crane, and then I moaned like a mourning dove. My eyes grew tired of looking to heaven for help. I am in trouble, Lord. Help me!”
Commentaries on Psalms 38:6
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 6I am troubled - In mind. I am bowed down in body. I am altogether afflicted, and full of distress.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 6I am troubled - Margin, “wearied.” The Hebrew word means to bend, to curve; then, to be distorted, to writhe with pain, convulsions, and spasms. In Isaiah 21:3, the same word is rendered, “I was bowed down at the hearing of it;” that is, Sorrow so took hold of him, that at the intelligence he writhed with pain as a woman in travail. So here it means that he was bent, or bowed down, or that he writhed in pain as the result of his iniquities. I am bowed…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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