Psalms 38:7
For my loins are filled with a loathsome disease: and there is no soundness in my flesh.
Psalms 38:7 in other translations
| BSB | For my loins are full of burning pain, and no soundness remains in my body. |
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| WEB | For my waist is filled with burning. There is no soundness in my flesh. |
| ASV | For my loins are filled with burning; And there is no soundness in my flesh. |
| YLT | For my flanks have been full of drought, And soundness is not in my flesh. |
| DARBY | For my loins are full of burning, and there is no soundness in my flesh. |
| BBE | For my body is full of burning; all my flesh is unhealthy. |
| Webster | For my loins are filled with a lothsome disease: and there is no soundness in my flesh. |
What does Psalms 38:7 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Psalms 38:5-8
5-8. 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].
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 38:7 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Psalms 38:7
- Psalms 102:3
For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as an hearth.
- 2 Chronicles 21:18-19
And after all this the Lord smote him in his bowels with an incurable disease. And it came to pass, that in process of time, after the end of two years, his bowels fell out by reason of his sickness: so he died of sore diseases. And his people made no burning for him, like the burning of his fathers.
- Acts 12:23
And immediately the angel of the Lord smote him, because he gave not God the glory: and he was eaten of worms, and gave up the ghost.
- Psalms 41:8
An evil disease, say they, cleaveth fast unto him: and now that he lieth he shall rise up no more.
- Job 30:18
By the great force of my disease is my garment changed: it bindeth me about as the collar of my coat.
- Job 7:5
My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin is broken, and become loathsome.
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Context
- Psalms 38:6
I am troubled; I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long.
- Psalms 38:7
For my loins are filled with a loathsome disease: and there is no soundness in my flesh.
- Psalms 38:8
I am feeble and sore broken: I have roared by reason of the disquietness of my heart.
Psalms 38:7 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Porque mis lomos están llenos de irritación, y no hay sanidad en mi carne. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Je suis accablé et extrêmement courbé; tout le jour je marche dans le deuil; |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Denn voll Brand sind meine Lenden, und nichts Heiles ist an meinem Fleische. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Verumtamen in imagine pertransit homo; sed et frustra conturbatur: thesaurizat, et ignorat cui congregabit ea. |