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Psalms 38:6
6My wounds are foul and festering because of my foolishness.
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
4There 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. My wounds are foul and festering because of my foolishness. 7I am bent over, bowed down greatly. All day I walk about in mourning. 8For my heart is filled with burning pain, and there is no health in my body.
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 went about mourning as though for my own friend or brother. I bowed down dressed in black as though for my own mother.
- Psalms 42:5These things I remember as I pour out my soul within me. For I used to go along with the throng, walking with them to the House of God, with a voice of joy and praise, a multitude keeping a festival.
- Psalms 57:6Be exalted, O God, above the heavens. Let Your glory be over all the earth!
- Psalms 145:14Adonai upholds all who fall and raises up all who are bowed down.
- Psalms 6:6For there is no memory of You in death, in Sheol who will praise You?
- Psalms 31:10Be gracious to me, Adonai, for I am in distress. My eyes waste away with grief, my soul and my body as well.
- Psalms 42:9By day Adonai commands His love, and at night His song is with me— a prayer to the God of my life.
- Psalms 43:2For You are my God, my stronghold. Why have You spurned me? Why do I go about gloomy because of the oppression of the enemy?
- Psalms 88:9You have put my companions far from me. You have made me repulsive to them. I am shut in and I cannot go out.
- Job 30:28I walk about blackened, but not by the sun; I stand in the assembly and cry for help.
- Isaiah 38:14Like a swallow or a crane, I whisper, I moan like a dove. My eyes are weary, looking upward. Adonai, I am oppressed, be my security!
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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