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Young's Literal Translation

Psalms 38:7

For my flanks have been full of drought, And soundness is not in my flesh.

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.
Complete Jewish Bible
I am bent down, prostrate completely; I go about mourning all day long.
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.
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, `To cause to remember.' Jehovah, in Thy wrath reprove me not, Nor in Thy fury chastise me. 2 For Thine arrows have come down on me, And Thou lettest down upon me Thy hand. 3 Soundness is not in my flesh, Because of Thine indignation, Peace is not in my bones because of my sin. 4 For mine iniquities have passed over my head, As a heavy burden -- too heavy for me. 5 Stunk -- become corrupt have my wounds, Because of my folly. 6 I have been bent down, I have been bowed down -- unto excess, All the day I have gone mourning. 7 For my flanks have been full of drought, And soundness is not in my flesh. 8 I have been feeble and smitten -- unto excess, I have roared from disquietude of heart. 9 Lord, before Thee [is] all my desire, And my sighing from Thee hath not been hid. 10 My heart [is] panting, my power hath forsaken me, And the light of mine eyes, Even they are not with me.

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
And Noah found grace in the eyes of Jehovah.
Genesis 13:13
and the men of Sodom [are] evil, and sinners before Jehovah exceedingly.
Genesis 19:13
for we are destroying this place, for their cry hath been great [before] the face of Jehovah, and Jehovah doth send us to destroy it.'
Genesis 46:12
And sons of Judah: Er, and Onan, and Shelah, and Pharez, and Zarah, (and Er and Onan die in the land of Canaan.) And sons of Pharez are Hezron and Hamul.
Numbers 26:19
Sons of Judah [are] Er and Onan; and Er dieth -- Onan also -- in the land of Canaan.
1 Chronicles 2:3
Sons of Judah: Er, and Onan, and Shelah, three have been born to him of a daughter of Shua the Canaanitess. And Er, first-born of Judah, is evil in the eyes of Jehovah, and He putteth him to death.
2 Chronicles 33:6
And he hath caused his sons to pass over through fire in the valley of the son of Hinnom, and observed clouds and used enchantments and witchcraft, and dealt with a familiar spirit, and a wizard; he hath multiplied to do the evil thing in the eyes of Jehovah, to provoke him to anger.
Psalms 55:23
And Thou, O God, dost bring them down To a pit of destruction, Men of blood and deceit reach not to half their days, And I -- I do trust in Thee!

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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