Psalms 38:5

King James Version 1611 (Original)

My wounds stink and are corrupt because of my foolishness.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 32:3 : 3 When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long.
  • Ps 38:7 : 7 For my loins are filled with a loathsome disease: and there is no soundness in my flesh.
  • Ps 69:5 : 5 O God, thou knowest my foolishness; and my sins are not hid from thee.
  • Isa 1:5-6 : 5 Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint. 6 From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises, and putrifying sores: they have not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with ointment.
  • Jer 8:22 : 22 Is there no balm in Gilead; is there no physician there? why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered?

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