Psalms 38:3

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Psalms 38:1–5 · Berean Standard Bible

1 O LORD, do not rebuke me in Your anger or discipline me in Your wrath.

2 For Your arrows have pierced me deeply, and Your hand has pressed down on me.

3 There is no soundness in my body because of Your anger; there is no rest in my bones because of my sin.

4 For my iniquities have overwhelmed me; they are a burden too heavy to bear.

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

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The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

Psalms 31:9

Be merciful to me, O LORD, for I am in distress; my eyes fail from sorrow, my soul and body as well.

2 Chronicles 26:19

Uzziah, with a censer in his hand to offer incense, was enraged. But while he raged against the priests in their presence in the house of the LORD before the altar of incense, leprosy broke out on his forehead.

Job 2:7

So Satan went out from the presence of the LORD and infected Job with terrible boils from the soles of his feet to the crown of his head.

Job 2:8

And Job took a piece of broken pottery to scrape himself as he sat among the ashes.

Job 33:19

A man is also chastened on his bed with pain and constant distress in his bones,

Job 33:20

so that he detests his bread, and his soul loathes his favorite food.

Job 33:21

His flesh wastes away from sight, and his hidden bones protrude.

Job 33:22

He draws near to the Pit, and his life to the messengers of death.

Isaiah 1:5

Why do you want more beatings? Why do you keep rebelling? Your head has a massive wound, and your whole heart is afflicted.

Isaiah 1:6

From the sole of your foot to the top of your head, there is no soundness— only wounds and welts and festering sores neither cleansed nor bandaged nor soothed with oil.

Psalms 6:2

Be merciful to me, O LORD, for I am frail; heal me, O LORD, for my bones are in agony.

Psalms 51:8

Let me hear joy and gladness; let the bones You have crushed rejoice.

Psalms 102:3

For my days vanish like smoke, and my bones burn like glowing embers.

Psalms 102:5

Through my loud groaning my flesh clings to my bones.

Psalms 90:7

For we are consumed by Your anger and terrified by Your wrath.

Psalms 90:8

You have set our iniquities before You, our secret sins in the light of Your presence.

Lamentations 3:40

Let us examine and test our ways, and turn back to the LORD.

Lamentations 3:41

Let us lift up our hearts and hands to God in heaven:

Lamentations 3:42

“We have sinned and rebelled; You have not forgiven.”