Tree of Life Version
Psalms 38:4
4There is no health in my flesh because of Your indignation. There is no wholeness in my bones because of my sin.
Psalms 38:4 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)For mine iniquities are gone over mine head: as an heavy burden they are too heavy for me.
- New International Version (NIV)My guilt has overwhelmed me like a burden too heavy to bear.
- English Standard Version (ESV)For my iniquities have gone over my head; like a heavy burden, they are too heavy for me.
- New King James Version (NKJV)For my iniquities have gone over my head; Like a heavy burden they are too heavy for me.
Context of Psalms 38:4
2Adonai, do not rebuke me in Your anger or discipline me in Your wrath. 3For Your arrows have sunk deep into me and Your hand has pressed down on me. There is no health in my flesh because of Your indignation. There is no wholeness in my bones because of my sin. 5For my iniquities are on my head— like a burden too heavy for me. 6My wounds are foul and festering because of my foolishness.
Read all of Psalms 38Psalms 38:4 word by word
כִּ֣י עֲ֭וֹנֹתַי עָבְר֣וּ רֹאשִׁ֑י כְּמַשָּׂ֥א כָ֝בֵ֗ד יִכְבְּד֥וּ מִמֶּֽנִּי׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Psalms 38:4
- Psalms 40:12Adonai, do not withhold Your compassions from me. Let Your mercy and Your truth always protect me.
- Ezra 9:6I prayed, “O my God, I am ashamed and humiliated to lift up my face to You, my God! For our iniquities are higher than our heads and our guilt has reached to the heavens.
- Leviticus 7:18If any of the meat of the sacrifice of his fellowship offerings is eaten on the third day, it will not be accepted, nor will it be credited to him who offers it. It will be a foul thing—and the soul who eats any from it will bear his own iniquity.
- Isaiah 53:11As a result of the anguish of His soul He will see it and be satisfied by His knowledge. The Righteous One, My Servant will make many righteous and He will bear their iniquities.
- Lamentations 1:14My transgressions are bound into a yoke, woven together by His hand. They have come upon my neck and He has sapped my strength. The Lord delivered me over to those I cannot withstand.
- Matthew 11:28Come to Me, all who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.
- 1 Peter 2:24He Himself bore our sins in His body on the tree, so that we, removed from sins, might live for righteousness. “By His wounds you were healed.”
Commentaries on Psalms 38:4
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 4Mine iniquities are gone over mine head - He represents himself as one sinking in deep waters, or as one oppressed by a burden to which his strength was unequal.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 4For mine iniquities are gone over mine head - This is merely an enlargement of the idea suggested in the last verse - that his present sickness was to be traced to his sin, and that he was suffering the punishment for sin. The idea is here that his sins were very numerous and very aggravated. They had risen up around him, or had so accumulated that the mass rose, like waves of the sea, above his head. A somewhat similar idea - though the thought there…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 4The psalmist feels burdened because of sin (see Psalms 40:12; 41:4; compare Genesis 4:13).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1-221-4. He deprecates deserved punishment, which is described (Psa 6:1), under the figure of bodily disease [Psa 38:3].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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