Mazmur 38:5

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

(38-6) Luka-lukaku berbau busuk, bernanah oleh karena kebodohanku;

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
(38-6) Luka-lukaku berbau busuk, bernanah oleh karena kebodohanku;

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Karena segala salahku meliputi kepalaku, ia itu telah menjadi terlalu berat padaku seperti suatu tanggungan yang berat adanya.

Contextual Overview

¹ Rebuke me not O God in thyne anger: neither chasten me in thy heauie displeasure. ² For thyne arrowes sticke fast in me: and thy hande presseth me sore. ³ There is no helath in my flesh through thy displeasure: neither is there any rest in my bones by reason of my sinne. ⁴ For my manyfolde wickednes is gone ouer my head: and like a sore burthen is to heauie for me to beare. ⁵ My woundes stinke and are corrupt: through my foolishnes. ⁶ I am become crooked, and am exceedingly pulled downe: I go a mourning all the day long. ⁷ For my loynes are filled with heate: and there is no whole part in my body. ⁸ I am feeble and sore smitten: I haue rored for the very disquietnesse of my heart. ⁹ Lorde thou knowest all my desire: and my gronyng is not hyd from thee. ¹⁰ My heart panteth, my strength hath fayled me: and the lyght of myne eyes is gone from me.

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

Genesis 38:11
Then sayde Iudas to Thamar his daughter in lawe: Remayne a wydowe at thy fathers house, tyll Selah my sonne be growen. (For he sayde, lest peraduenture he dye also as his brethren dyd.) And Thamar went & dwelt in her fathers house.

Genesis 38:26
And Iuda acknowledged them, and saide: She hath ben more righteous then I, because I gaue her not Selah my sonne. And he lay with her no more.

Genesis 46:12
The children of Iuda: Er, & Onan, Selah, & Phares, and Zarah: but Er and Onan dyed in the lande of Chanaan. The children of Phares also were Hesron and Hamul.

Numbers 26:20
But the chyldren of Iuda after their kinredes, were Sela, of whom cometh the kinred of the Selanites: Phares, of whom commeth the kinred of the Pharezites: Zareh, of whom cometh the kinred of the Zarehites.

1 Chronicles 4:21
The sonnes of Selah the sonne of Iuda, were: Er the father of Lecha, and Laada the father of Maresa, and the kinredes of the housholdes of them that wrought linnen in the house of Asbea.

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.