Psalms 38:3 · KJV
“{There is} no soundness in my flesh because of thine anger; neither {is there any} rest in my bones because of my sin. {rest: Heb. peace, or, health}”
— Psalms 38:3
For thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand presseth me sore.
For mine iniquities are gone over mine head: as an heavy burden they are too heavy for me.
Psalms 38 — Context
[A Psalm of David, to bring to remembrance.] O LORD, rebuke me not in thy wrath: neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure.
2For thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand presseth me sore.
3{There is} no soundness in my flesh because of thine anger; neither {is there any} rest in my bones because of my sin. {rest: Heb. peace, or, health}
4For mine iniquities are gone over mine head: as an heavy burden they are too heavy for me.
5My wounds stink {and} are corrupt because of my foolishness.
Cross References
Psalms 6:2
Have mercy upon me, O LORD; for I {am} weak: O LORD, heal me; for my bones are vexed.
Psalms 51:8
Make me to hear joy and gladness; {that} the bones {which} thou hast broken may rejoice.
Psalms 31:9-10
Have mercy upon me, O LORD, for I am in trouble: mine eye is consumed with grief, {yea}, my soul and my belly.
Isaiah 1:5-6
Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint. {revolt...: Heb. increase revolt}
Lamentations 3:40-42
Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the LORD.
Psalms 90:7-8
For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath are we troubled.
2 Chronicles 26:19
Then Uzziah was wroth, and {had} a censer in his hand to burn incense: and while he was wroth with the priests, the leprosy even rose up in his forehead before the priests in the house of the LORD, from beside the incense altar.
Psalms 102:3
For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as an hearth. {like...: or, (as some read) into smoke}