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Psalms 38:5

My wounds stink [and] are corrupt because of my foolishness.

My wounds {H2250} stink {H887} and are corrupt {H4743}{H8738)} because {H6440} of my foolishness {H200}.

I have stinking, festering wounds because of my foolishness.

My wounds are foul and festering because of my sinful folly.

My wounds are loathsome and corrupt, Because of my foolishness.

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Cross-References

  • Isaiah 1:5 (3 votes)

    Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.
  • Isaiah 1:6 (3 votes)

    From 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.
  • Jeremiah 8:22 (2 votes)

    [Is there] no balm in Gilead; [is there] no physician there? why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered?
  • Psalms 69:5 (2 votes)

    O God, thou knowest my foolishness; and my sins are not hid from thee.
  • Psalms 38:7 (2 votes)

    For my loins are filled with a loathsome [disease]: and [there is] no soundness in my flesh.
  • Psalms 32:3 (2 votes)

    When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long.
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