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Psalms 38:5
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My wounds are foul and festeringbecause of my foolishness.
My wounds are loathsome and corrupt, Because of my foolishness.
My wounds stink and are corrupt because of my foolishness.
My wounds stink and fester because of my foolishness,
My sores stink and become infected because I was foolish.
My wounds are infected and starting to smell, because of my foolish sins.
My wounds are loathsome and foul Because of my foolishness.
My wounds grow foul and fester Because of my foolishness.
My wounds are loathsome and corrupt, Because of my foolishness.
My woundes are putrified, and corrupt because of my foolishnes.
My wounds stink and rotBecause of my folly.
My wounds are foul and festering because of my sinful folly.
for my iniquities loom high over my head as a heavy burden, too heavy for me.
My wounds stink, they are corrupt, because of my foolishness.
I did a foolish thing, and now I have infected sores that stink.
My wounds are loathsome and corrupt because of my foolishness.
Because I have been foolish, my sores stink and rot.
My wounds start to stink; they rot because of my foolishness.
My wounds have putrefied and rotted because of my foolishness.
My woundes styncke & are corrupte, thorow my folishnesse.
My wounds are loathsome and corrupt, Because of my foolishness.
My wounds are poisoned and evil-smelling, because of my foolish behaviour.
For mine iniquities are gone over my head; as a heavy burden they are too heavy for me.
My wounds stinke, and are corrupt: because of my foolishnesse.
My woundes stinke and are corrupt: through my foolishnes.
My bruises have become noisome and corrupt, because of my foolishness.
My wounds stink and are corrupt, because of my foolishness.
Myn heelid woundis weren rotun, and ben brokun; fro the face of myn vnwisdom.
My wounds are loathsome and corrupt, Because of my foolishness.
My wounds are offensive, [and] are corrupt because of my foolishness.
My wounds are foul and festering Because of my foolishness.
My wounds fester and stink because of my foolish sins.
My sores smell and grow bigger because I do foolish things.
My wounds grow foul and fester because of my foolishness;
My wounds are of bad odour - they have festered, by reason of my folly:
(37-6) My sores are putrefied and corrupted, because of my foolishness.
My wounds grow foul and fester because of my foolishness,
Stunk -- become corrupt have my wounds, Because of my folly.
The cuts in my flesh stink and grow maggots because I've lived so badly. And now I'm flat on my face feeling sorry for myself morning to night. All my insides are on fire, my body is a wreck. I'm on my last legs; I've had it— my life is a vomit of groans.
My wounds grow foul and fester Because of my folly.
Contextual Overview
(A psalm by David to be used when an offering is made.)
When you are angry, Lord , please don't punish me or even correct me. 2 You shot me with your arrows, and you struck me with your hand. 3 My body hurts all over because of your anger. Even my bones are in pain, and my sins 4 are so heavy that I am crushed. 5 Because of my foolishness, I am covered with sores that stink and spread. 6 My body is twisted and bent, and I groan all day long. 7 Fever has my back in flames, and I hurt all over. 8 I am worn out and weak, moaning and in distress. 9 You, Lord, know every one of my deepest desires, and my noisy groans are no secret to you. 10 My heart is beating fast. I feel weak all over, and my eyes are red.Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
My wounds: The soul being invisible, its distempers are also so; therefore the sacred writers describe them by the distempers of the body. - See the parallel texts on these verses. On reading these and similar passages, say Bp. Lowth, some, who were but little acquainted with the genius of Hebrew poetry, have pretended to enquire into the nature of the disease with which the poet was afflicted; not less absurdly, in my opinion, than if they had perplexed themselves to discover in what river he was plunged, when he complains that "the deep waters had gone over his soul." Psalms 38:7, Psalms 32:3, Isaiah 1:5, Isaiah 1:6, Jeremiah 8:22
Reciprocal: Job 2:8 - took him Job 7:5 - flesh Job 30:18 - By the great Psalms 14:3 - filthy Psalms 109:24 - my flesh Nahum 3:6 - I will cast
Cross-References
Judah did not want the same thing to happen to his son Shelah, and he told Tamar, "Go home to your father and live there as a widow until my son Shelah is grown." So Tamar went to live with her father.
"Those are mine!" Judah admitted. "She's a better person than I am, because I broke my promise to let her marry my son Shelah." After this, Judah never slept with her again.
Judah also had a son named Shelah, whose descendants included Jokim and the people of the town of Cozeba, as well as Er who settled the town of Lecah and Laadah who settled the town of Mareshah. The people who lived in Beth-Ashbea were also descendants of Shelah, and they were experts in weaving cloth. Shelah was the ancestor of Joash and Saraph, two men who married Moabite women and then settled near Bethlehem—but these family records are very old.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
My wounds stink, [and] are corrupt,.... Meaning his sins, which had wounded him, and for which there is no healing but in a wounded Saviour, and by his stripes we are healed, Isaiah 53:5; where the same word is used as here; Christ's black and blue stripes and wounds, as the word signifies, are the healing of ours, both of sins, and of the effects of them; which, to a sensible sinner, are as nauseous and loathsome as an old wound that is festered and corrupt;
because of my foolishness: as all sin arises from foolishness, which is bound in the hearts of men, and from whence it arises, Mark 7:22; perhaps the psalmist may have respect to his folly with Bathsheba, which had been the occasion of all the distress that is spoken of both before and afterwards.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
My wounds stink - The word rendered “wounds” here means properly the swelling or wales produced by stripes. See the notes at Isaiah 1:6; notes at Isaiah 53:5. The meaning here is, that he was under chastisement for his sin; that the stripes or blows on account of it had not only left a mark and produced a swelling, but that the skin itself had been broken, and that the flesh had become corrupt, and the sore offensive. Many expositors regard this as a mere figurative representation of the sorrow produced by the consciousness of sin; and of the loathsome nature of sin, but it seems to me that the whole connection rather requires us to understand it of bodily suffering, or of disease.
And are corrupt - The word used here - מקק mâqaq - means properly to melt; to pine away; and then, to flow, to run, as sores and ulcers do. The meaning here is, My sores run; to wit, with corrupt matter.
Because of my foolishness - Because of my sin, regarded as folly. Compare the notes at Psalms 14:1. The Scripture idea is that sin is the highest folly. Hence, the psalmist, at the same time that he confesses his sin, acknowledges also its foolishness. The idea of sin and that of folly become so blended together - or they are so entirely synonymous - that the one term may be used for the other.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Psalms 38:5. My wounds stink and are corrupt — Taking this in connection with the rest of the Psalm, I do not see that we can understand the word in any figurative or metaphorical way. I believe they refer to some disease with which he was at this time afflicted; but whether the leprosy, the small pox, or some other disorder that had attacked the whole system, and showed its virulence on different parts of the outer surface, cannot be absolutely determined.
Because of my foolishness. — This may either signify sin as the cause of his present affliction, or it may import an affliction which was the consequence of that foolish levity which prefers the momentary gratification of an irregular passion to health of body and peace of mind.
