Psalms 38 · Verse 8

Psalms 38:8

I am feeble and sore broken: I have roared by reason of the disquietness of my heart.
Psalms 38:8, King James Version

Psalms 38:8 in other translations

BSBI am numb and badly crushed; I groan in anguish of heart.
WEBI am faint and severely bruised. I have groaned by reason of the anguish of my heart.
ASVI am faint and sore bruised: I have groaned by reason of the disquietness of my heart.
YLTI have been feeble and smitten--unto excess, I have roared from disquietude of heart.
DARBYI am faint and broken beyond measure; I roar by reason of the agitation of my heart.
BBEI am feeble and crushed down; I gave a cry like a lion because of the grief in my heart.
WebsterI am feeble and grievously broken: I have roared by reason of the disquietness of my heart.

What does Psalms 38:8 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].

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Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 8 I am feeble and sore broken - I am so exhausted with my disease that I feel as if on the brink of the grave, and unfit to appear before God; therefore "have I roared for the disquietness of my heart." That David describes a natural disease here cannot reasonably be doubted; but what that disease was, who shall attempt to say? However, this is evident, that whatever it was, he most deeply deplored the cause of it; and as he worthily lamented it, so he found mercy at the hand of God. It would be easy to show a disease of which what he here enumerates are the very general symptoms; but I forbear, because in this I might attribute to one what, perhaps, in Judea would be more especially descriptive of another.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

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…

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Psalms 38:8 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

נְפוּג֣וֹתִיne.fu.Go.tiI am numbH6313
וְנִדְכֵּ֣יתִיve.nid.Kei.tiand I am crushedH1794
עַד\־'ad-up toH5704
מְאֹ֑דme.'OdmuchnessH3966
שָׁ֝אַ֗גְתִּיSha.'Ag.tiI roarH7580
מִֽנַּהֲמַ֥תmi.na.ha.Matfrom [the] groaning ofH5100
לִבִּֽי\׃li.Biheart myH3820

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Psalms 38:8

  • Job 3:24

    For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters.

  • Psalms 32:3

    When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long.

  • Job 30:28

    I went mourning without the sun: I stood up, and I cried in the congregation.

  • Isaiah 59:11

    We roar all like bears, and mourn sore like doves: we look for judgment, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far off from us.

  • Psalms 22:1-2

    To the chief Musician upon Aijeleth Shahar, A Psalm of David. My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring? O my God, I cry in the daytime, but thou hearest not; and in the night season, and am not silent.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
roared.
22:1,2; 32:3; Job 3:24; 30:28; Isa 59:11

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain

Context

  • 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 38:9

    Lord, all my desire is before thee; and my groaning is not hid from thee.

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Psalms 38:8 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Estoy debilitado y molido en gran manera; bramo á causa de la conmoción de mi corazón.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Car mes reins sont pleins d’inflammation, et il n’y a rien d’entier dans ma chair.
German
Elberfelder 1871		Ich bin ermattet und über die Maßen zerschlagen, ich heule vor Gestöhn meines Herzens.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Et nunc quæ est exspectatio mea: nonne Dominus? et substantia mea apud te est.