Psalms 38:3
There is no soundness in my flesh because of thine anger; neither is there any rest in my bones because of my sin.
Psalms 38:3 in other translations
| BSB | There is no soundness in my body because of Your anger; there is no rest in my bones because of my sin. |
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| WEB | There is no soundness in my flesh because of your indignation, neither is there any health in my bones because of my sin. |
| ASV | There is no soundness in my flesh because of thine indignation; Neither is there any health in my bones because of my sin. |
| YLT | Soundness is not in my flesh, Because of Thine indignation, Peace is not in my bones because of my sin. |
| DARBY | There is no soundness in my flesh because of thine indignation; no peace in my bones, because of my sin. |
| BBE | My flesh is wasted because of your wrath; and there is no peace in my bones because of my sin. |
| Webster | There is no soundness in my flesh because of thy anger; neither is there any rest in my bones because of my sin. |
What does Psalms 38:3 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Psalms 38:1-4
Psa 38:1-22. To bring to remembrance, or, remind God of His mercy and himself of his sin. Appealing to God for relief from His heavy chastisement, the Psalmist avows his integrity before men, complains of the defection of friends and persecution of enemies, and in a submissive spirit, casting himself on God, with penitent confession he pleads God's covenant relation and his innocence of the charges of his enemies…
Adam Clarke's Commentary
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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Psalms 38:1-11
Nothing will disquiet the heart of a good man so much as the sense of God's anger. The way to keep the heart quiet, is to keep ourselves in the love of God. But a sense of guilt is too heavy to bear; and would sink men into despair and ruin, unless removed by the pardoning mercy of God. If there were not sin in our souls, there would be no pain in our bones, no illness in our bodies. The guilt of sin is a burden to…
Psalms 38:3 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Psalms 38:3
- Psalms 6:2
Have mercy upon me, O Lord; for I am weak: O Lord, heal me; for my bones are vexed.
- Psalms 51:8
Make me to hear joy and gladness; that the bones which thou hast broken may rejoice.
- Psalms 31:9-10
Have mercy upon me, O Lord, for I am in trouble: mine eye is consumed with grief, yea, my soul and my belly. For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing: my strength faileth because of mine iniquity, and my bones are consumed.
- Isaiah 1:5-6
Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint. From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises, and putrifying sores: they have not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with ointment.
- Lamentations 3:40-42
Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the Lord. Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto God in the heavens. We have transgressed and have rebelled: thou hast not pardoned.
- Psalms 102:3
For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as an hearth.
- Job 33:19-22
He is chastened also with pain upon his bed, and the multitude of his bones with strong pain: So that his life abhorreth bread, and his soul dainty meat. His flesh is consumed away, that it cannot be seen; and his bones that were not seen stick out. Yea, his soul draweth near unto the grave, and his life to the destroyers.
- Psalms 102:5
By reason of the voice of my groaning my bones cleave to my skin.
- Job 2:7-8
So went Satan forth from the presence of the Lord, and smote Job with sore boils from the sole of his foot unto his crown. And he took him a potsherd to scrape himself withal; and he sat down among the ashes.
- Psalms 90:7-8
For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath are we troubled. Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret sins in the light of thy countenance.
- 2 Chronicles 26:19
Then Uzziah was wroth, and had a censer in his hand to burn incense: and while he was wroth with the priests, the leprosy even rose up in his forehead before the priests in the house of the Lord, from beside the incense altar.
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Context
- Psalms 38:2
For thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand presseth me sore.
- Psalms 38:3
There is no soundness in my flesh because of thine anger; neither is there any rest in my bones because of my sin.
- Psalms 38:4
For mine iniquities are gone over mine head: as an heavy burden they are too heavy for me.
Psalms 38:3 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | No hay sanidad en mi carne á causa de tu ira; ni hay paz en mis huesos á causa de mi pecado. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Car tes flèches ont pénétré en moi, et ta main est descendue sur moi. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Nichts Heiles ist an meinem Fleische wegen deines Zürnens, kein Frieden in meinen Gebeinen wegen meiner Sünde. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Obmutui, et humiliatus sum, et silui a bonis; et dolor meus renovatus est. |