Psalms 38:5

KJV1611 – Modern English

My wounds are foul and festering because of my foolishness.

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  • Ps 32:3 : 3 When I kept silent, my bones grew old through my groaning all day long.
  • Ps 38:7 : 7 For my loins are filled with a loathsome disease, and there is no health in my flesh.
  • Ps 69:5 : 5 O God, you know my foolishness, and my sins are not hidden from you.
  • Isa 1:5-6 : 5 Why should you be stricken any more? you will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint. 6 From the sole of the foot even to the head there is no soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises, and putrefying sores: they have not been closed, nor bound up, nor soothed with ointment.
  • Jer 8:22 : 22 Is there no balm in Gilead; is there no physician there? Why then is the health of the daughter of my people not recovered?

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ps 38:2-4
    3 verses
    79%

    2For your arrows pierce deeply into me, and your hand presses me hard.

    3There is no health in my flesh because of your anger, nor is there any rest in my bones because of my sin.

    4For my iniquities have gone over my head; like a heavy burden, they are too heavy for me.

  • Ps 38:6-9
    4 verses
    78%

    6I am troubled; I am greatly bowed down; I go mourning all the day long.

    7For my loins are filled with a loathsome disease, and there is no health in my flesh.

    8I am feeble and severely broken; I have roared because of the disquiet of my heart.

    9Lord, all my desire is before you, and my groaning is not hidden from you.

  • Ps 69:5
    76%

    5O God, you know my foolishness, and my sins are not hidden from you.

  • Ps 39:8
    74%

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

  • Ps 31:9-10
    2 verses
    74%

    9Have mercy upon me, O LORD, for I am in trouble: my eye is consumed with grief, yes, my soul and my body.

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

  • Ps 38:17-18
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    74%

    17For I am ready to fall, and my sorrow is continually before me.

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

  • Job 7:5
    73%

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

  • Ps 73:21-22
    2 verses
    73%

    21Thus my heart was grieved, and I was pierced in my mind.

    22So foolish was I, and ignorant; I was like a beast before You.

  • Isa 1:5-6
    2 verses
    73%

    5Why should you be stricken any more? you will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.

    6From the sole of the foot even to the head there is no soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises, and putrefying sores: they have not been closed, nor bound up, nor soothed with ointment.

  • Jer 10:19
    72%

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

  • Job 34:6
    72%

    6Should I lie against my right? My wound is incurable, though I am without transgression.

  • Ps 41:4
    72%

    4I said, LORD, be merciful to me; heal my soul, for I have sinned against You.

  • Jer 15:18
    72%

    18Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, refusing to be healed? will you be altogether to me as a liar, and as waters that fail?

  • Job 17:1
    72%

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

  • Ps 102:5
    71%

    5Because of the voice of my groaning, my bones cling to my skin.

  • Ps 107:17
    71%

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

  • Lam 1:20
    71%

    20Behold, O LORD; for I am in distress: my heart is troubled; my heart is turned within me; for I have grievously rebelled: abroad the sword bereaves, at home there is as death.

  • Ps 39:10
    71%

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

  • Ps 109:22
    71%

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

  • Ps 51:3
    71%

    3For I acknowledge my transgressions, and my sin is always before me.

  • Ps 38:11-12
    2 verses
    71%

    11My loved ones and friends stand aloof from my affliction, and my relatives stand far off.

    12Those who seek my life lay snares for me, and those who seek my hurt speak mischievous things and imagine deceits all day long.

  • Ps 40:12
    71%

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

  • Lam 3:4
    70%

    4My flesh and my skin He has made old; He has broken my bones.

  • Isa 38:17
    70%

    17Behold, for peace I had great bitterness: but in love for my soul, You have delivered it from the pit of corruption: for You have cast all my sins behind Your back.

  • Lam 1:22
    70%

    22Let all their wickedness come before you; and do unto them, as you have done unto me for all my transgressions: for my sighs are many, and my heart is faint.

  • Ps 44:15
    70%

    15My confusion is continually before me, and the shame of my face has covered me,

  • Job 16:15
    70%

    15I have sewn sackcloth upon my skin and defiled my horn in the dust.

  • Job 30:18-19
    2 verses
    70%

    18By the great force of my disease my garment is changed: it binds me about like the collar of my coat.

    19He has cast me into the mire, and I have become like dust and ashes.

  • Ps 22:14-15
    2 verses
    70%

    14I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint; my heart is like wax; it is melted within me.

    15My strength is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue clings to my jaws; You have brought me into the dust of death.

  • Ps 6:2
    70%

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

  • Ps 25:18
    70%

    18Look on my affliction and my pain, and forgive all my sins.

  • Isa 38:15
    70%

    15What shall I say? He has spoken to me, and He Himself has done it: I shall go softly all my years in the bitterness of my soul.

  • 1 Chr 21:8
    70%

    8And David said to God, I have sinned greatly because I have done this thing: but now, I beseech you, remove the iniquity of your servant; for I have acted very foolishly.

  • Ps 55:4
    69%

    4My heart is in anguish within me, and the terrors of death have fallen upon me.

  • Ps 73:2
    69%

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

  • Jer 4:18
    69%

    18Your way and your deeds have procured these things for you; this is your wickedness, because it is bitter, because it reaches to your heart.

  • Ps 32:3
    69%

    3When I kept silent, my bones grew old through my groaning all day long.

  • Ps 32:5
    69%

    5I acknowledged my sin to You, and my iniquity I did not hide. I said, I will confess my transgressions to the LORD, and You forgave the iniquity of my sin. Selah.