Psalms 38:5
My wounds stink and are corrupt because of my foolishness.
KJV
Locutus sum in lingua mea : Notum fac mihi, Domine, finem meum, et numerum dierum meorum quis est, ut sciam quid desit mihi.
Vulgate
Γνώρισόν μοι, Κύριε, τὸ πέρας μου, καὶ τὸν ἀριθμὸν τῶν ἡμερῶν μου τίς ἐστιν, ἵνα γνῶ τί ὑστερῶ ἐγώ.
LXX
My wounds are loathsome and corrupt, Because of my foolishness.
ASV
כִּ֣י עֲ֭וֺנֹתַ/י עָבְר֣וּ רֹאשִׁ֑/י כְּ/מַשָּׂ֥א כָ֝בֵ֗ד יִכְבְּד֥וּ מִמֶּֽ/נִּי
Hebrew
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In the original Hebrew
8 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
כִּֽי
ky
pronoun · 4439×
כָּבֵ֥ד
kbd
adjective · 39×
ם
m
noun · 230×
מִן
mn
preposition · 1223×
מַשָּׂ֖א
msh'
noun · 65×
נִכְבָּ֔ד
nkbd
verb · 115×
עֹבֵ֣ר
'br
verb · 561×
רֹ֣אשׁ
r'sh
noun · 593×
Historic Christian voices
3 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
§1502The man of the Old Testament lives his sickness in the presence of God. It is before God that he laments his illness, and it is of God, Master of life and death, that he implores healing.98 Illness becomes a way to conversion; God's forgiveness initiates the healing.99 It is the experience of Israel that illness is mysteriously linked to sin and evil, and that faithfulness to G…
Cross-references
- Isa 1:5 — Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.
- Jer 8:22 — Is there no balm in Gilead; is there no physician there? why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered?
- Job 2:8 — And he took him a potsherd to scrape himself withal; and he sat down among the ashes.
- Nah 3:6 — And I will cast abominable filth upon thee, and make thee vile, and will set thee as a gazingstock.
- Ps 14:3 — They are all gone aside, they are all together become filthy: there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
- Ps 69:5 — O God, thou knowest my foolishness; and my sins are not hid from thee.
- Ps 69:5 — O God, thou knowest my foolishness; and my sins are not hid from thee.
- Ps 109:24 — My knees are weak through fasting; and my flesh faileth of fatness.