Psalms 38:7
For my loins are full of burning pain, and no soundness remains in my body.
BSB
ASV
For my loins are filled with burning; And there is no soundness in my flesh.
KJV
For my loins are filled with a loathsome disease: and there is no soundness in my flesh.
For my loins are filled with a loathsome disease,.... The word here used has the signification of burning (k); and the Targum renders it, "my loins are filled with burning"; a burning fever was upon him, or there was an inflammation in those parts; a hot burning ulcer, which might be nauseous; and so was true in both senses.
Disease - The disease might be some burning fever, breaking forth outwardly in carbuncles, or boils. It is true, this and the other expressions may be taken figuratively, but we should not forsake the literal sense of the words without necessity.
For my loins are filled with a loathsome disease —a hot, dry, parching disorder, probably accompanied by loathsome ulcers. Spiritually, the fire burns within when the evil of the heart is laid bare. Note the emphatic words, the evil is loathsome, it is in the loins, its seat is deep and vital—the man is filled with it. Those who have passed through the time of conviction understand all this. And there is no soundness in my flesh.
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.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
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Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
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Acts 12:23Immediately, because Herod did not give glory to God, an angel of the Lord struck him down, and he was eaten by worms and died.
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As Peter was about to enter, Cornelius met him and fell at his feet to worship him.
Not to us, O LORD, not to us, but to Your name be the glory, because of Your loving devotion, because of Your faithfulness.
He will oppose and exalt himself above every so-called god or object of worship. So he will seat himself in the temple of God, proclaiming himself to be God.
But when the apostles Barnabas and Paul found out about this, they tore their clothes and rushed into the crowd, shouting,
the king exclaimed, “Is this not Babylon the Great, which I myself have built by the might of my power as a royal residence and for the glory of my majesty?”
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Psalms 102:3For my days vanish like smoke, and my bones burn like glowing embers.
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You do not even know what will happen tomorrow! What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.
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Job 7:5My flesh is clothed with worms and encrusted with dirt; my skin is cracked and festering.
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Your pomp has been brought down to Sheol, along with the music of your harps. Maggots are your bed and worms your blanket.
and say to corruption, ‘You are my father,’ and to the worm, ‘My mother,’ or ‘My sister,’