KING JAMES BIBLE · PCE
Psalms 38:5–7
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Psalms 38:5
5My wounds stink and are corrupt because of my foolishness.
5My wounds stinke, and are corrupt: because of my foolishnesse.
Psalms 38:6
6I am troubled; I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long.
6†I am troubled, I am bowed downe greatly; I goe mourning all the day long.
- Hebr. wryed.
Psalms 38:7
7For my loins are filled with a loathsome disease: and there is no soundness in my flesh.
7For my loynes are filled with a loathsome disease: and there is no soundnesse in my flesh.
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DEFINED WORDS
Psalms 38:5
Bodily injuries, hurts, or blows that break or damage the flesh.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
A strong offensive smell.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
Morally depraved, perverted, or made unsound.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
For the reason that; since.
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APPROVED COMBINED MEANING
foolishness
Lack of wisdom, sound judgment, or understanding; folly or absurd conduct.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
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Psalms 38:6
Disturbed, distressed, afflicted, agitated, or perplexed; the past form of trouble.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
Bent, stooped, inclined, or brought low in body, will, or condition.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
From a higher place or position to a lower one; below.
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Grieving or lamenting; also outward signs or customs of sorrow.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
Wholly, entirely, or altogether; every one or the whole amount, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
The period of light between morning and evening; a complete daily cycle; or a specified time, age, or season, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Extending a great distance or duration; also to desire earnestly.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
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Psalms 38:7
Made full; supplied with abundance.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Disgusting; exciting disgust.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Sickness or an impaired condition of the body.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Bodily wholeness, health, and freedom from wound, disease, or impairment.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
The soft substance of the body; also the body, human nature, kindred, or mankind.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
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From verse 5
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Open the full verse study5¶ 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.
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Open the full verse study22Is there no balm in Gilead; is there no physician there? why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered?
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Open the full verse study5O God, thou knowest my foolishness; and my sins are not hid from thee.
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Open the full verse study3When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long.
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Open the full verse study7For my loins are filled with a loathsome disease: and there is no soundness in my flesh.
From verse 6
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Open the full verse study28I went mourning without the sun: I stood up, and I cried in the congregation.
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Open the full verse study14I behaved myself as though he had been my friend or brother: I bowed down heavily, as one that mourneth for his mother.
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Open the full verse study9I will say unto God my rock, Why hast thou forgotten me? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?
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Open the full verse study14The Lord upholdeth all that fall, and raiseth up all those that be bowed down.
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Open the full verse study10For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing: my strength faileth because of mine iniquity, and my bones are consumed.
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Open the full verse study5Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted in me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him for the help of his countenance.
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Open the full verse study2For thou art the God of my strength: why dost thou cast me off? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?
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Open the full verse study6They have prepared a net for my steps; my soul is bowed down: they have digged a pit before me, into the midst whereof they are fallen themselves. Selah.
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Open the full verse study6I am weary with my groaning; all the night make I my bed to swim; I water my couch with my tears.
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Open the full verse study9Mine eye mourneth by reason of affliction: Lord, I have called daily upon thee, I have stretched out my hands unto thee.
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Open the full verse study14Like a crane or a swallow, so did I chatter: I did mourn as a dove: mine eyes fail with looking upward: O Lord, I am oppressed; undertake for me.
From verse 7
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Open the full verse study18¶ 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.
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Open the full verse study23And 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.
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Open the full verse study5My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin is broken, and become loathsome.
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Open the full verse study3For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as an hearth.
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Open the full verse study8An evil disease, say they, cleaveth fast unto him: and now that he lieth he shall rise up no more.
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Open the full verse study18By the great force of my disease is my garment changed: it bindeth me about as the collar of my coat.
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