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Douay-Rheims Bible

Psalms 38:7

(37-8) For my loins are filled with illusions; and there is no health 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:
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 (37-1) <A psalm for David, for a remembrance of the sabbath.> (37-2) Rebuke me not, O Lord, in thy indignation; nor chastise me in thy wrath. 2 (37-3) For thy arrows are fastened in me: and thy hand hath been strong upon me. 3 (37-4) There is no health in my flesh, because of thy wrath: there is no peace for my bones, because of my sins. 4 (37-5) For my iniquities are gone over my head: and as a heavy burden are become heavy upon me. 5 (37-6) My sores are putrefied and corrupted, because of my foolishness. 6 (37-7) I am become miserable, and am bowed down even to the end: I walked sorrowful all the day long. 7 (37-8) For my loins are filled with illusions; and there is no health in my flesh. 8 (37-9) I am afflicted and humbled exceedingly: I roared with the groaning of my heart. 9 (37-10) Lord, all my desire is before thee, and my groaning is not hidden from thee. 10 (37-11) My heart is troubled, my strength hath left me, and the light of my eyes itself is 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
But Noe found grace before the Lord.
Genesis 13:13
And the men of Sodom were very wicked, and sinners before the face of the Lord beyond measure.
Genesis 19:13
For we will destroy this place, because their cry is grown loud before the Lord, who hath sent us to destroy them.
Genesis 46:12
The sons of Juda: Her and Onan, and Sela, and Phares and Zara. And Her and Onan died in the land of Chanaan. And sons were born to Phares: Hesron and Hamul.
Numbers 26:19
The sons of Juda, Her and Onan, who both died in the land of Chanaan.
1 Chronicles 2:3
The sons of Juda: Her, Onan and Sela. These three were born to him of the Chanaanitess the daughter of Sue. And Her the firstborn of Juda, was wicked in the sight of the Lord, and he slew him.
2 Chronicles 33:6
And he made his sons to pass through the fire in the valley of Benennom: he observed dreams, followed divinations, gave himself up to magic arts, had with him magicians, and enchanters: and he wrought many evils before the Lord, to provoke him to anger.
Psalms 55:23
(54-24) But thou, O God, shalt bring them down into the pit of destruction. Bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half their days; but I will trust in thee, O Lord.

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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