Psalms 38:5

Authorized King James Version (1611)

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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    2 For thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand presseth me sore.

    3 [There is] no soundness in my flesh because of thine anger; neither [is there any] rest in my bones because of my sin.

    4 For mine iniquities are gone over mine head: as an heavy burden they are too heavy for me.

  • Ps 38:6-9
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    6 I am troubled; I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long.

    7 For my loins are filled with a loathsome [disease]: and [there is] no soundness in my flesh.

    8 I am feeble and sore broken: I have roared by reason of the disquietness of my heart.

    9 Lord, all my desire [is] before thee; and my groaning is not hid from thee.

  • 5 O God, thou knowest my foolishness; and my sins are not hid from thee.

  • 8 Deliver me from all my transgressions: make me not the reproach of the foolish.

  • Ps 31:9-10
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    9 ¶ Have mercy upon me, O LORD, for I am in trouble: mine eye is consumed with grief, [yea], my soul and my belly.

    10 For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing: my strength faileth because of mine iniquity, and my bones are consumed.

  • Ps 38:17-18
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    17 For I [am] ready to halt, and my sorrow [is] continually before me.

    18 For I will declare mine iniquity; I will be sorry for my sin.

  • 5 My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin is broken, and become loathsome.

  • Ps 73:21-22
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    21 ¶ Thus my heart was grieved, and I was pricked in my reins.

    22 So foolish [was] I, and ignorant: I was [as] a beast before thee.

  • Isa 1:5-6
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    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.

  • 19 Woe is me for my hurt! my wound is grievous: but I said, Truly this [is] a grief, and I must bear it.

  • 6 Should I lie against my right? my wound [is] incurable without transgression.

  • 4 I said, LORD, be merciful unto me: heal my soul; for I have sinned against thee.

  • 18 Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, [which] refuseth to be healed? wilt thou be altogether unto me as a liar, [and as] waters [that] fail?

  • 1 ¶ My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves [are ready] for me.

  • 5 By reason of the voice of my groaning my bones cleave to my skin.

  • 17 ¶ Fools because of their transgression, and because of their iniquities, are afflicted.

  • 20 Behold, O LORD; for I [am] in distress: my bowels are troubled; mine heart is turned within me; for I have grievously rebelled: abroad the sword bereaveth, at home [there is] as death.

  • 10 Remove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of thine hand.

  • 22 For I [am] poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me.

  • 3 For I acknowledge my transgressions: and my sin [is] ever before me.

  • Ps 38:11-12
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    11 My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my sore; and my kinsmen stand afar off.

    12 ¶ They also that seek after my life lay snares [for me]: and they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and imagine deceits all the day long.

  • 12 For innumerable evils have compassed me about: mine iniquities have taken hold upon me, so that I am not able to look up; they are more than the hairs of mine head: therefore my heart faileth me.

  • 4 My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones.

  • 17 Behold, for peace I had great bitterness: but thou hast in love to my soul [delivered it] from the pit of corruption: for thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back.

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  • 15 My confusion [is] continually before me, and the shame of my face hath covered me,

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    18 By the great force [of my disease] is my garment changed: it bindeth me about as the collar of my coat.

    19 He hath cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and ashes.

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    14 I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels.

    15 My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue cleaveth to my jaws; and thou hast brought me into the dust of death.

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    2 Have mercy upon me, O LORD; for I [am] weak: O LORD, heal me; for my bones are vexed.

  • 18 Look upon mine affliction and my pain; and forgive all my sins.

  • 15 What shall I say? he hath both spoken unto me, and himself hath done [it]: I shall go softly all my years in the bitterness of my soul.

  • 8 And David said unto God, I have sinned greatly, because I have done this thing: but now, I beseech thee, do away the iniquity of thy servant; for I have done very foolishly.

  • 4 My heart is sore pained within me: and the terrors of death are fallen upon me.

  • 2 But as for me, my feet were almost gone; my steps had well nigh slipped.

  • 18 Thy way and thy doings have procured these [things] unto thee; this [is] thy wickedness, because it is bitter, because it reacheth unto thine heart.

  • 3 When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long.

  • 5 I acknowledged my sin unto thee, and mine iniquity have I not hid. I said, I will confess my transgressions unto the LORD; and thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin. Selah.