Psalms 38:6
I am bent and brought low; all day long I go about mourning.
BSB
ASV
I am pained and bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long.
KJV
I am troubled; I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long.
I am troubled. I am wearied with distress, writhing with pain, in sore travail on account of sin revealed within me. I am bowed down greatly. I am brought very low, grievously weakened and frightfully depressed. Nothing so pulls a man down from all loftiness as a sense of sin and of divine wrath concerning it. I go mourning all the day long.
He was always pensive and melancholy, which made him a burden and terror to himself. His spirit was feeble and sorely broken, and his heart disquieted,
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.
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Psalms 42:5Why are you downcast, O my soul? Why the unease within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise Him for the salvation of His presence.
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Be still before the LORD and wait patiently for Him; do not fret when men prosper in their ways, when they carry out wicked schemes.
You need to persevere, so that after you have done the will of God, you will receive what He has promised.
From the ends of the earth I call out to You whenever my heart is faint. Lead me to the rock that is higher than I.
“Behold, the virgin will be with child and will give birth to a son, and they will call Him Immanuel” (which means, “God with us”).
Still I am certain to see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living.
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Psalms 145:14The LORD upholds all who fall and lifts up all who are bowed down.
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the LORD opens the eyes of the blind, the LORD lifts those who are weighed down, the LORD loves the righteous.
Though he falls, he will not be overwhelmed, for the LORD is holding his hand.
If I say, “My foot is slipping,” Your loving devotion, O LORD, supports me.