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Psalms 38:3

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There is no soundness in my body because of Your anger; there is no rest in my bones because of my sin.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

There is no soundness in my flesh because of thine indignation; Neither is there any health in my bones because of my sin.

KJV

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

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This verse in Psalms 38

Commentary

3 notes on this verse
(Verse 3.) There is no soundness in my flesh from the face of your anger. Isaiah explained this passage to us: We have sinned, and you are angry with us (Isaiah 64:5). But who can withstand the face of the Lord's anger? Perhaps he can, because the eyes of the Lord are on those who do evil (Psalm 34:17). For if the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous, how can the Prophet be weakened by the face of God's anger?

This site's exposition

rebuke me in Your anger

on Psalms 38:1-4

The psalm opens asking that the discipline not come in anger or wrath. The arrows and the pressing hand are God's own, and the sickness in body and bones is traced to sin. The iniquities are a burden too heavy to bear.

The record, by era

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Charles Spurgeon

1834–1892

The Treasury of David, Vol. 2 (1870)

There is no soundness in my flesh because of thine anger. Mental depression tells upon the bodily frame; it is enough to create and foster every disease, and is in itself the most painful of all diseases. Soul sickness tells upon the entire frame; it weakens the body, and then bodily weakness reacts upon the mind. One drop of divine anger sets the whole of our blood boiling with misery. Neither is there any rest in my bones because of my sin. Deeper still the malady penetrates, till the bones, the more solid parts of the system, are affected.

The words behind it

10 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • אֵין־there not

    ʾein-H369 →789 times

  • מְתֹ֣ם[is] soundness

    metomH4974 →

  • בִּ֭בְשָׂרִיin flesh my

    bivsariH1320 →270 times

  • מִפְּנֵ֣י<from> because of

    mipeneiH6440 →2123 times

  • זַעְמֶ֑ךָindignation your

    za'mekhaH2195 →22 times

  • אֵין־there not

    ʾein-H369 →789 times

  • שָׁל֥וֹם[is] health

    shalomH7965 →236 times

  • בַּ֝עֲצָמַ֗יin bones my

    baatzamaiH6106 →126 times

  • מִפְּנֵ֥י<from> because of

    mipeneiH6440 →2123 times

  • חַטָּאתִֽי׃sin my

    chatatiH2403 →295 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

18 in all, six open

The number beside each verse is how many compiled reference works tie it to this one. The strongest six stand open.

Psalms 32:3When I kept silent, my bones became brittle from my groaning all day long.9 worksPsalms 51:8Let me hear joy and gladness; let the bones You have crushed rejoice.8 worksPsalms 6:2Be merciful to me, O LORD, for I am frail; heal me, O LORD, for my bones are in agony.6 worksPsalms 31:10For my life is consumed with grief and my years with groaning; my iniquity has drained my strength, and my bones are wasting away.6 worksPsalms 102:10because of Your indignation and wrath, for You have picked me up and cast me aside.5 worksPsalms 31:9–10Be merciful to me, O LORD, for I am in distress; my eyes fail from sorrow, my soul and body as well.3 works
The other 12 cross-references, with their words ▾
Psalms 35:10All my bones will exclaim, “Who is like You, O LORD, who delivers the afflicted from the aggressor, the poor and needy from the robber?”3 worksIsaiah 1:5–6Why do you want more beatings? Why do you keep rebelling? Your head has a massive wound, and your whole heart is afflicted.2 worksLamentations 3:40–42Let us examine and test our ways, and turn back to the LORD.2 worksLeviticus 13:7But if the rash spreads further on his skin after he has shown himself to the priest for his cleansing, he must present himself again to the priest.2 worksLamentations 4:8But now their appearance is blacker than soot; they are not recognized in the streets. Their skin has shriveled on their bones; it has become as dry as a stick.2 worksJob 19:20My skin and flesh cling to my bones; I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.2 works2 Chronicles 26:19Uzziah, with a censer in his hand to offer incense, was enraged. But while he raged against the priests in their presence in the house of the LORD before the altar of incense, leprosy broke out on his forehead.1 worksPsalms 90:7–8For we are consumed by Your anger and terrified by Your wrath.1 worksJob 33:19–22A man is also chastened on his bed with pain and constant distress in his bones,1 worksJob 2:7–8So Satan went out from the presence of the LORD and infected Job with terrible boils from the soles of his feet to the crown of his head.1 worksPsalms 102:5Through my loud groaning my flesh clings to my bones.1 worksPsalms 102:3For my days vanish like smoke, and my bones burn like glowing embers.1 works

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Psalms 51:8

    Let me hear joy and gladness; let the bones You have crushed rejoice.

    it leads to

    • Job 5:17–18

      Blessed indeed is the man whom God corrects; so do not despise the discipline of the Almighty.

    • Matthew 5:4

      Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted.

    • Hosea 6:1–2

      Come, let us return to the LORD. For He has torn us to pieces, but He will heal us; He has wounded us, but He will bind up our wounds.

    • Psalms 6:2–3

      Be merciful to me, O LORD, for I am frail; heal me, O LORD, for my bones are in agony.

    • Psalms 119:81–82

      My soul faints for Your salvation; I wait for Your word.

  • Through

    Psalms 6:2

    Be merciful to me, O LORD, for I am frail; heal me, O LORD, for my bones are in agony.

    it leads to

    • Hosea 6:1

      Come, let us return to the LORD. For He has torn us to pieces, but He will heal us; He has wounded us, but He will bind up our wounds.

    • Psalms 30:2

      O LORD my God, I cried to You for help, and You healed me.

    • Psalms 31:10

      For my life is consumed with grief and my years with groaning; my iniquity has drained my strength, and my bones are wasting away.

About Psalms

Saul attempts to kill David (the harpist of Israel) — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
Saul attempts to kill David (the harpist of Israel) — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
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This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes on the Book of Psalms; Ambrose of Milan, Commentaries on the Twelve Davidic Psalms; Charles Spurgeon, The Treasury of David and Charles Spurgeon, The Treasury of David, Vol. 2.

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