Psalms 38:5
My wounds are poisoned and evil-smelling, because of my foolish behaviour.
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Referenced Verses
- Ps 32:3 : 3 When I kept my mouth shut, my bones were wasted, because of my crying all through the day.
- Ps 38:7 : 7 For my body is full of burning; all my flesh is unhealthy.
- Ps 69:5 : 5 O God, you see how foolish I am; and my wrongdoing is clear to you.
- Isa 1:5-6 : 5 Why will you have more and more punishment? why keep on in your evil ways? Every head is tired and every heart is feeble. 6 The body, from head to foot, is all diseased; it is a mass of open wounds, marks of blows, and broken flesh: the flow of blood has not been stopped, and no oil has been put on the wounds.
- Jer 8:22 : 22 Is there no life-giving oil in Gilead? is there no expert in medical arts? why then have my people not been made well?
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- Ps 38:2-43 verses79%
2 For your arrows have gone into my flesh, and I am crushed under the weight of your hand.
3 My flesh is wasted because of your wrath; and there is no peace in my bones because of my sin.
4 For my crimes have gone over my head; they are like a great weight which is more than my strength.
- Ps 38:6-94 verses78%
6 I am troubled, I am made low; I go weeping all the day.
7 For my body is full of burning; all my flesh is unhealthy.
8 I am feeble and crushed down; I gave a cry like a lion because of the grief in my heart.
9 Lord, all my desire is before you; my sorrow is not kept secret from you.
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5 O God, you see how foolish I am; and my wrongdoing is clear to you.
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8 Make me free from all my sins; do not let me be shamed by the man of evil behaviour.
- Ps 31:9-102 verses74%
9 Have mercy on me, O Lord, for I am in trouble; my eyes are wasted with grief, I am wasted in soul and body.
10 My life goes on in sorrow, and my years in weeping; my strength is almost gone because of my sin, and my bones are wasted away.
- Ps 38:17-182 verses74%
17 My feet are near to falling, and my sorrow is ever before me.
18 I will make clear my wrongdoing, with sorrow in my heart for my sin.
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5 My flesh is covered with worms and dust; my skin gets hard and then is cracked again.
- Ps 73:21-222 verses73%
21 My heart was made bitter, and I was pained by the bite of grief:
22 As for me, I was foolish, and without knowledge; I was like a beast before you.
- Isa 1:5-62 verses73%
5 Why will you have more and more punishment? why keep on in your evil ways? Every head is tired and every heart is feeble.
6 The body, from head to foot, is all diseased; it is a mass of open wounds, marks of blows, and broken flesh: the flow of blood has not been stopped, and no oil has been put on the wounds.
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19 Sorrow is mine for I am wounded! my wound may not be made well; and I said, Cruel is my disease, I may not be free from it.
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6 Though I am right, still I am in pain; my wound may not be made well, though I have done no wrong.
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4 I said, Lord, have mercy on me; make my soul well, because my faith is in you.
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18 Why is my pain unending and my wound without hope of being made well? Sorrow is mine, for you are to me as a stream offering false hope and as waters which are not certain.
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1 My spirit is broken, my days are ended, the last resting-place is ready for me.
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5 Because of the voice of my sorrow, my flesh is wasted to the bone.
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17 Foolish men, because of their sins, and because of their wrongdoing, are troubled;
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20 See, O Lord, for I am in trouble; the inmost parts of my body are deeply moved; my heart is turned in me; for I have been uncontrolled: outside the children are put to the sword, and in the house there is death.
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10 No longer let your hand be hard on me; I am wasted by the blows of your hand.
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22 For I am poor and in need, and my heart is wounded in me.
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3 For I am conscious of my error; my sin is ever before me.
- Ps 38:11-122 verses71%
11 My lovers and my friends keep away from my disease; my relations keep far away.
12 Those who have a desire to take my life put nets for me; those who are designing my destruction say evil things against me, all the day their minds are full of deceit.
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12 For unnumbered evils are round about me; my sins have overtaken me, so that I am bent down with their weight; they are more than the hairs of my head, my strength is gone because of them.
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4 My flesh and my skin have been used up by him and my bones broken.
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17 See, in place of peace my soul had bitter sorrow. but you have kept back my soul from the underworld; for you have put all my sins out of your memory.
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22 Let all their evil-doing come before you; do to them as you have done to me for all my sins: for loud is the sound of my grief, and the strength of my heart is gone.
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15 My downfall is ever before me, and I am covered with the shame of my face;
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15 I have made haircloth the clothing of my skin, and my horn is rolled in the dust.
- Job 30:18-192 verses70%
18 With great force he takes a grip of my clothing, pulling me by the neck of my coat.
19 Truly God has made me low, even to the earth, and I have become like dust.
- Ps 22:14-152 verses70%
14 I am flowing away like water, and all my bones are out of place: my heart is like wax, it has become soft in my body.
15 My throat is dry like a broken vessel; my tongue is fixed to the roof of my mouth, and the dust of death is on my lips.
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2 Have mercy on me, O Lord, for I am wasted away: make me well, for even my bones are troubled.
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18 Give thought to my grief and my pain; and take away all my sins.
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15 What am I to say? seeing that it is he who has done it: all my time of sleeping I am turning from side to side without rest.
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8 Then David said to God, Great has been my sin in doing this; but now, be pleased to take away the sin of your servant, for I have done very foolishly.
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4 My heart is deeply wounded, and the fear of death has come on me.
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2 But as for me, my feet had almost gone from under me; I was near to slipping;
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18 Your ways and your doings have made these things come on you; this is your sin; truly it is bitter, going deep into your heart.
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3 When I kept my mouth shut, my bones were wasted, because of my crying all through the day.
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5 I made my wrongdoing clear to you, and did not keep back my sin. I said, I will put it all before the Lord; and you took away my wrongdoing and my sin. (Selah.)