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Psalms 38:5–7

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My wounds stink and are corrupt because of my foolishness.
I am troubled; I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long.
For my loins are filled with a loathsome disease: and there is no soundness in my flesh.
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From verse 5

  1. Isaiah 1:5–6Rank 1 from verse 5
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    5¶ Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.

    6From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises, and putrifying sores: they have not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with ointment.

  2. Jeremiah 8:22Rank 2 from verse 5
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    22Is there no balm in Gilead; is there no physician there? why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered?

  3. Psalms 69:5Rank 3 from verse 5
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    5O God, thou knowest my foolishness; and my sins are not hid from thee.

  4. Psalms 32:3Rank 4 from verse 5
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    3When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long.

  5. Psalms 38:7Rank 5 from verse 5
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    7For my loins are filled with a loathsome disease: and there is no soundness in my flesh.

From verse 6

  1. Job 30:28Rank 1 from verse 6
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    28I went mourning without the sun: I stood up, and I cried in the congregation.

  2. Psalms 35:14Rank 2 from verse 6
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    14I behaved myself as though he had been my friend or brother: I bowed down heavily, as one that mourneth for his mother.

  3. Psalms 42:9Rank 3 from verse 6
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    9I will say unto God my rock, Why hast thou forgotten me? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

  4. Psalms 145:14Rank 4 from verse 6
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    14The Lord upholdeth all that fall, and raiseth up all those that be bowed down.

  5. Psalms 31:10Rank 5 from verse 6
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    10For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing: my strength faileth because of mine iniquity, and my bones are consumed.

From verse 7

  1. 2 Chronicles 21:18–19Rank 1 from verse 7
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    18¶ And after all this the Lord smote him in his bowels with an incurable disease.

    19And it came to pass, that in process of time, after the end of two years, his bowels fell out by reason of his sickness: so he died of sore diseases. And his people made no burning for him, like the burning of his fathers.

  2. Acts 12:23Rank 2 from verse 7
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    23And immediately the angel of the Lord smote him, because he gave not God the glory: and he was eaten of worms, and gave up the ghost.

  3. Job 7:5Rank 3 from verse 7
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    5My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin is broken, and become loathsome.

  4. Psalms 102:3Rank 4 from verse 7
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    3For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as an hearth.

  5. Psalms 41:8Rank 5 from verse 7
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    8An evil disease, say they, cleaveth fast unto him: and now that he lieth he shall rise up no more.

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Psalms 38:5

COMBINED MEANING

wounds

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1. Bodily injuries, cuts, or sores. 2. Deep inward hurts or afflictions likened to bodily injuries.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

stink

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Sense 1: A strong offensive smell. Sense 2: To give off an offensive smell or become offensive or odious.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

corrupt

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1. Morally spoiled, defiled, perverted, false, or turned from integrity. 2. Physically decayed, damaged, or unsound. 3. As a verb, to spoil, debase, pervert, or cause decay.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Skeat 1893

DEFINED WORDS

Psalms 38:6

COMBINED MEANING

troubled

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Disturbed, agitated, alarmed, perplexed, afflicted, burdened, unsettled, or caused to suffer inward, bodily, social, or outward disruption.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

bowed

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Past-tense, participial, or adjectival form of bow. Sense 1: To bend or incline the head, knees, face, or body downward. Sense 2: To make a bodily act of reverence or worship.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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mourning

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Sense 1: Present-participial or verbal-noun form of mourn, meaning to grieve, sorrow, lament, weep, or express distress. Sense 2: To show the effects of ruin and sorrow.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

day

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Sense 1: Light or the period of light between morning and evening, as distinguished from night. Sense 2: A complete daily cycle. Sense 3: A specified time, occasion, period, age, or season.

Meaning drawn from: Direct Scripture definition · KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

long

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Sense 1: Extending a great distance or duration. Sense 2: To desire earnestly.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

DEFINED WORDS

Psalms 38:7

COMBINED MEANING

for

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1. In behalf of or in the place of. 2. With respect to, concerning, or toward. 3. Because of or on account of. 4. During or throughout. 5. In order to obtain or reach. 6. As a conjunction, because or seeing that.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

filled

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Past-tense, participial, or adjectival form of fill. Sense 1: To make full or occupy capacity. Sense 2: To satisfy. Sense 3: To occupy. Sense 4: To complete what is lacking.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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disease

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1. A sickness, infirmity, or bodily malady. 2. A grievous condition likened to sickness.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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soundness

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Wholeness, bodily health, or an unimpaired condition; perfect physical integrity.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

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in

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1. A preposition marking position, presence, state, circumstance, manner, means, sphere, reference, relation, association, or participation. 2. As an adverb, inward, inside, or into the place or position referred to.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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flesh

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Sense 1: The soft substance of the body. Sense 2: The body, human nature, kindred, or mankind.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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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.

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6I am troubled; I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long.

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7For my loins are filled with a loathsome disease: and there is no soundness in my flesh.

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8I am feeble and sore broken: I have roared by reason of the disquietness of my heart.

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