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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.
Because of my foolishness, I am covered with sores that stink and spread.
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 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 of David, asking God to remember him.
O Lord , don't rebuke me in your anger or discipline me in your rage! 2 Your arrows have struck deep, and your blows are crushing me. 3 Because of your anger, my whole body is sick; my health is broken because of my sins. 4 My guilt overwhelms me— it is a burden too heavy to bear. 5 My wounds fester and stink because of my foolish sins. 6 I am bent over and racked with pain. All day long I walk around filled with grief. 7 A raging fever burns within me, and my health is broken. 8 I am exhausted and completely crushed. My groans come from an anguished heart. 9 You know what I long for, Lord; you hear my every sigh. 10 My heart beats wildly, my strength fails, and I am going blind.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
Then Judah said to Tamar, his daughter-in-law, "Go back to your parents' home and remain a widow until my son Shelah is old enough to marry you." (But Judah didn't really intend to do this because he was afraid Shelah would also die, like his two brothers.) So Tamar went back to live in her father's home.
Judah recognized them immediately and said, "She is more righteous than I am, because I didn't arrange for her to marry my son Shelah." And Judah never slept with Tamar again.
The sons of Judah were Er, Onan, Shelah, Perez, and Zerah (though Er and Onan had died in the land of Canaan). The sons of Perez were Hezron and Hamul.
These were the clans descended from Judah's surviving sons: The Shelanite clan, named after their ancestor Shelah. The Perezite clan, named after their ancestor Perez. The Zerahite clan, named after their ancestor Zerah.
Shelah was one of Judah's sons. The descendants of Shelah were Er (the father of Lecah); Laadah (the father of Mareshah); the families of linen workers at Beth-ashbea;
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.
