Psalms 38:17 · KJV
“For I {am} ready to halt, and my sorrow {is} continually before me. {to halt: Heb. for halting}”
— Psalms 38:17
For I said, {Hear me}, lest {otherwise} they should rejoice over me: when my foot slippeth, they magnify {themselves} against me.
For I will declare mine iniquity; I will be sorry for my sin.
Psalms 38 — Context
For in thee, O LORD, do I hope: thou wilt hear, O Lord my God. {in...: or, thee do I wait for} {hear: or, answer}
16For I said, {Hear me}, lest {otherwise} they should rejoice over me: when my foot slippeth, they magnify {themselves} against me.
17For I {am} ready to halt, and my sorrow {is} continually before me. {to halt: Heb. for halting}
18For I will declare mine iniquity; I will be sorry for my sin.
19But mine enemies {are} lively, {and} they are strong: and they that hate me wrongfully are multiplied. {are lively...: Heb. being living, are strong}
Cross References
Psalms 6:6
I am weary with my groaning; all the night make I my bed to swim; I water my couch with my tears. {all...: or, every night}
Psalms 35:15
But in mine adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together: {yea}, the abjects gathered themselves together against me, and I knew {it} not; they did tear {me}, and ceased not: {adversity: Heb. halting}
Psalms 38:6
I am troubled; I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long. {troubled: Heb. wried}
Micah 4:6-7
In that day, saith the LORD, will I assemble her that halteth, and I will gather her that is driven out, and her that I have afflicted;
Isaiah 53:3-5
He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were {our} faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not. {we hid...: or, he hid as it were his face from us: Heb. as an hiding of faces from him, or, from us}
Psalms 77:2-3
In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord: my sore ran in the night, and ceased not: my soul refused to be comforted. {sore: Heb. hand}