Psalms 38:5
My wounds stink and are corrupt because of my foolishness.
Context
This verse from Psalms Chapter 38 connects to 6 cross-references. A penitential lament of David describing severe physical and social suffering as divine punishment for sin. He acknowledges guilt, confesses iniquity, and describes abandonment by friends and relatives while adversaries scheme. Counted among the seven penitential psalms, it ends with …
Other Translations
My wounds are loathsome and corrupt, Because of my foolishness.
Stunk--become corrupt have my wounds, Because of my folly.
My wounds are poisoned and evil-smelling, because of my foolish behaviour.
Cross References
When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long.
For my loins are filled with a loathsome disease: and there is no soundness in my flesh.
O God, thou knowest my foolishness; and my sins are not hid from thee.
Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the …
From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises, …
Is there no balm in Gilead; is there no physician there? why then is not the health of the daughter …