Psalms 38:5

World English Bible (2000)

My wounds are loathsome and corrupt, because of my foolishness.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 32:3 : 3 When I kept silence, my bones wasted away through my groaning all day long.
  • Ps 38:7 : 7 For my waist is filled with burning. There is no soundness in my flesh.
  • Ps 69:5 : 5 God, you know my foolishness. My sins aren't hidden from you.
  • Isa 1:5-6 : 5 Why should you be beaten more, that you 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: wounds, welts, and open sores. They haven't been closed, neither bandaged, neither soothed with oil.
  • Jer 8:22 : 22 Is there no balm in Gilead? is there no physician there? why then isn't the health of the daughter of my people recovered?

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    5Why should you be beaten more, that you revolt more and more? The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.

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