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Complete Jewish Bible

Psalms 38:7

I am bent down, prostrate completely; I go about mourning all day long.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Afflictions and Adversities;   Conviction;   Disease;   Prayer;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Diseases;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Psalms, the Book of;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Suffering;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Pit;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - English Versions;   Greek Versions of Ot;   Psalms;   Sin;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Arrow;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Psalms the book of;   Zion;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Disease;   Loins;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
For my insides are full of burning pain,and there is no soundness in my body.
Hebrew Names Version
For my loins are filled with burning. There is no soundness in my flesh.
King James Version
For my loins are filled with a loathsome disease: and there is no soundness in my flesh.
English Standard Version
For my sides are filled with burning, and there is no soundness in my flesh.
New Century Version
I am burning with fever, and my whole body is sore.
New English Translation
For I am overcome with shame and my whole body is sick.
Amplified Bible
For my sides are filled with burning, And there is no health in my flesh.
New American Standard Bible
For my sides are filled with burning, And there is no healthy part in my flesh.
World English Bible
For my loins are filled with burning. There is no soundness in my flesh.
Geneva Bible (1587)
For my reines are full of burning, and there is nothing sound in my flesh.
Legacy Standard Bible
For my loins are filled with burning,And there is no soundness in my flesh.
Berean Standard Bible
For my loins are full of burning pain, and no soundness remains in my body.
Contemporary English Version
Fever has my back in flames, and I hurt all over.
Darby Translation
For my loins are full of burning, and there is no soundness in my flesh.
Easy-to-Read Version
I am burning with fever, and my whole body hurts.
George Lamsa Translation
My loins are filled with trembling, and there is no peace in my body.
Good News Translation
I am burning with fever and I am near death.
Lexham English Bible
For my loins are full of burning, and there is no soundness in my flesh.
Literal Translation
For my loins are filled with a burning, and there is no soundness in my flesh.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
For my loynes are clene dried vp, and there is no whole parte in my body.
American Standard Version
For my loins are filled with burning; And there is no soundness in my flesh.
Bible in Basic English
For my body is full of burning; all my flesh is unhealthy.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
I am bent and bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day.
King James Version (1611)
For my loynes are filled with a loathsome disease: and there is no soundnesse in my flesh.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
For my loynes are filled with heate: and there is no whole part in my body.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
For my soul is filled with mockings; and there is no health in my flesh.
English Revised Version
For my loins are filled with burning; and there is no soundness in my flesh.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
For my leendis ben fillid with scornyngis; and helthe is not in my fleisch.
Update Bible Version
For my loins are filled with burning; And there is no soundness in my flesh.
Webster's Bible Translation
For my loins are filled with a lothsome [disease]: and [there is] no soundness in my flesh.
New King James Version
For my loins are full of inflammation, And there is no soundness in my flesh.
New Living Translation
A raging fever burns within me, and my health is broken.
New Life Bible
for my body is filled with burning pain. There is no strength in my body.
New Revised Standard
For my loins are filled with burning, and there is no soundness in my flesh.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
For, my loins, are filled with inflammation, and there is no soundness in my flesh:
Douay-Rheims Bible
(37-8) For my loins are filled with illusions; and there is no health in my flesh.
Revised Standard Version
For my loins are filled with burning, and there is no soundness in my flesh.
Young's Literal Translation
For my flanks have been full of drought, And soundness is not in my flesh.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
For my loins are filled with burning, And there is no soundness in my flesh.

Contextual Overview

1 A psalm of David, serving as a reminder: 2 Adonai , don't rebuke me when you are angry or discipline me when you are enraged, 3 for your arrows penetrate me deeply, and your hand is pressing me down. 4 Your indignation left no part of me intact; my sin made my whole body sick; 5 for my iniquities loom high over my head as a heavy burden, too heavy for me. 6 I have stinking, festering wounds because of my foolishness. 7 I am bent down, prostrate completely; I go about mourning all day long. 8 For my insides burn with fever, and my whole body is sick. 9 I am numb, completely crushed; my anguished heart makes me groan aloud. 10 Adonai, all my longing is known to you; my sighing is not hidden from you.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

my loins: Psalms 41:8, 2 Chronicles 21:18, 2 Chronicles 21:19, Job 7:5, Job 30:18, Acts 12:23

no: Psalms 38:3

Reciprocal: Job 2:8 - took him Psalms 6:2 - for I Psalms 38:5 - My wounds Psalms 78:13 - made Luke 14:21 - the halt

Cross-References

Genesis 6:8
But Noach found grace in the sight of Adonai . Haftarah B'resheet: Yesha‘yahu (Isaiah) 42:5–43:10 (A); 42:5–21 (S) B'rit Hadashah suggested readings for Parashah B'resheet: Mattityahu (Matthew) 1:1–17; 19:3–9; Mark 10:1–12; Luke 3:23–38; Yochanan (John) 1:1–18; 1 Corinthians 6:15–20; 15:35–58; Romans 5:12–21; Ephesians 5:21–32; Colossians 1:14–17; 1 Timothy 2:11–15; Messianic Jews (Hebrews) 1:1–3; 3:7–4:11; 11:1–7; 2 Kefa (2 Peter) 3:3–14; Revelation 21:1–5; 22:1–5 Here is the history of Noach. In his generation, Noach was a man righteous and wholehearted; Noach walked with God. Noach fathered three sons, Shem, Ham and Yefet. The earth was corrupt before God, the earth was filled with violence. God saw the earth, and, yes, it was corrupt; for all living beings had corrupted their ways on the earth. God said to Noach, "The end of all living beings has come before me, for because of them the earth is filled with violence. I will destroy them along with the earth. Make yourself an ark of gofer-wood; you are to make the ark with rooms and cover it with pitch both outside and inside. Here is how you are to build it: the length of the ark is to be 450 feet, its width seventy-five feet and its height forty-five feet. You are to make an opening for daylight in the ark eighteen inches below its roof. Put a door in its side; and build it with lower, second and third decks. "Then I myself will bring the flood of water over the earth to destroy from under heaven every living thing that breathes; everything on earth will be destroyed. But I will establish my covenant with you; you will come into the ark, you, your sons, your wife and your sons' wives with you. "From everything living, from each kind of living being, you are to bring two into the ark, to keep them alive with you; they are to be male and female. Of each kind of bird, each kind of livestock, and each kind of animal creeping on the ground, two are to come to you, so that they can be kept alive. Also take from all the kinds of food that are eaten, and collect it for yourself; it is to be food for you and for them." This is what Noach did; he did all that God ordered him to do.
Genesis 13:13
Now the men of S'dom were evil, committing great sins against Adonai .
Genesis 19:13
because we are going to destroy it. Adonai has become aware of the great outcry against them, and Adonai has sent us to destroy it."
Genesis 46:12
The sons of Y'hudah: ‘Er, Onan, Shelah, Peretz and Zerach; but ‘Er and Onan died in the land of Kena‘an. The sons of Peretz were Hetzron and Hamul.
Numbers 26:19
The sons of Y'hudah: First ‘Er and Onan, but ‘Er and Onan died in the land of Kena‘an.
1 Chronicles 2:3
The sons of Y'hudah: ‘Er, Onan and Shelah; the mother of these three was Bat-Shua the Kena‘anit. ‘Er, Y'hudah's firstborn, was wicked from Adonai 's perspective, so he killed him.
2 Chronicles 33:6
He made his children pass through the fire [as a sacrifice] in the Ben-Hinnom Valley. He practiced soothsaying, divination and sorcery; and he appointed mediums and persons who used spirit guides. He did much that was evil from Adonai 's perspective, thus provoking him to anger.
Psalms 55:23
Unload your burden on Adonai , and he will sustain you. He will never permit the righteous to be moved. But you will bring them down, God, into the deepest pit. Those men, so bloodthirsty and treacherous, will not live out half their days. But for my part, [ Adonai ,] I put my trust in you.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For my loins are filled with a loathsome [disease],.... The word here used has the signification of burning k; and the Targum renders it, "my loins are filled with burning"; a burning fever was upon him, or there was an inflammation in those parts; a hot burning ulcer, which might be nauseous; and so was true in both senses. Aben Ezra interprets it abominable and vile; something not fit to be mentioned; and so Kimchi and Ben Melech. The word is rendered sometimes "lightly esteemed"; as in 1 Samuel 18:23; and Jarchi thinks it has this sense here; and the meaning is, that he was vile in his own eyes, and mean in his own esteem. Doubtless the psalmist has reference to something more than a bodily disease; at least not to that only, but to the disease of his soul also, sin, which has the nature of a disease; it is an hereditary one, which is derived from one to another by propagation; it is universal, and reaches to all men, and to all the parts of the body and powers of the soul; it is a complication of disorders: it is in its own nature mortal, and ever incurable but by Christ; and, as here, it is a loathsome one; it is loathsome to God, and to all sensible sinners: and when the psalmist says his loins were filled with it, it may signify that it was an internal disorder that was in him; sin that dwelt in him, a law in his members; and may denote the aboundings of sin in him, the swarms of corruptions that were in him; as also the pain it gave him, and the quick sense he had of it;

and [there is] no soundness in my flesh: which is repeated, see

Psalms 38:3; partly for confirmation's sake, and partly to show the continued sense of it, as persons under a disorder are continually making mention of it.

k R. Joseph Kimchi Abendana נקלה "ardore", Pagninus, Vatablus "ardens ulcus", Musculus, so some in Vatablus; "tostione", Piscator; "adustione", Gejerus; so the Targum; "adusto", Gussetius, Ebr. Comment. p. 742.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

For my bones are filled with a loathsome disease - This would seem to indicate the seat of the disease, though not its nature. The word used here, according to Gesenius (Lexicon), properly denotes the internal muscles of the loins near the kidneys, to which the fat adheres. The word rendered “loathsome” - the word “disease” being supplied by our translators - is derived from קלה qâlâh, a word which means to roast, to parch, as fruit, grain, etc.; and then, in the form used here, it means scorched, burned; hence, a burning or inflammation; and the whole phrase would be synonymous with “an inflammation of the kidneys.” The word used here does not imply that there was any eruption, or ulcer, though it would seem from Psalms 38:5 that this was the fact, and that the inflammation had produced this effect.

And there is no soundness in my flesh - See Psalms 38:3. His disease was so deep-seated and so pervading, that there did not seem to be “any” soundness in his flesh. His whole body seemed to be diseased.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 38:7. For my loins are filled with a loathsome disease] Or rather, a burning; נקלה nikleh, from קלה kalah, to fry, scorch, &c., hence נקלה nikleh, a burning, or strongly feverish disease.

There is no soundness in my flesh. — All without and all within bears evidence that the whole of my solids and fluids are corrupt.


 
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