Psalms 38:5
My wounds are foul and festering because of my sinful folly.
BSB
ASV
My wounds are loathsome and corrupt, Because of my foolishness.
KJV
My wounds stink and are corrupt because of my foolishness.
(Verse 5.) Therefore, rightly placed under iniquities, and (what is worse) his own, he says that his scars have become corrupted and decayed from the face of his foolishness; because the remedy for lifting the burden of iniquities followed slowly. However, even Job, who with a holy razor shaved the pus from his sores, was deprived of health; and Lazarus, a poor man who lay at the rich man's gate, with dogs licking his wounds, was lifted from the stench of his scars and placed in Abraham's bosom by angels.
My wounds stink and are corrupt because of my foolishness. Apply this to the body, and it pictures a sad condition of disease; but read it of the soul, and it is to the life. Conscience lays on stripe after stripe till the swelling becomes a wound and suppurates, and the corruption within grows offensive. What a horrible creature man appears to be in his own consciousness when his depravity and vileness are fully opened up by the law of God, applied by the Holy Spirit!
The loathsomeness, corruption, and wasting torture of severe physical disease set forth his mental anguish [Ps 38:6]. It is possible some bodily disease was connected. The loins are the seat of strength.
The walk8
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Psalms 32:3When I kept silent, my bones became brittle from my groaning all day long.
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He who conceals his sins will not prosper, but whoever confesses and renounces them will find mercy.
I am numb and badly crushed; I groan in anguish of heart.
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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Jeremiah 8:22Is there no balm in Gilead? Is no physician there? Why then has the health of the daughter of my people not been restored?
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Go up to Gilead for balm, O Virgin Daughter of Egypt! In vain you try many remedies, but for you there is no healing.
And as they sat down to eat a meal, they looked up and saw a caravan of Ishmaelites coming from Gilead. Their camels were carrying spices, balm, and myrrh on their way down to…
Suddenly Babylon has fallen and been shattered. Wail for her; get her balm for her pain; perhaps she can be healed.
For this is what the LORD says: “Your injury is incurable; your wound is grievous.
including a woman who had suffered from bleeding for twelve years. She had spent all her money on physicians, but no one was able to heal her.