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Psalm 38

Psa. 38:5 KJV (With Strong’s)

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My wounds
chabbuwrah (Hebrew #2250)
or chaburah {khab-oo-raw'}; from 2266; properly, bound (with stripes), i.e. a weal (or black-and-blue mark itself)
KJV usage: blueness, bruise, hurt, stripe, wound.
Pronounce: khab-boo-raw'
Origin: or chabburah {khab-boo-raw'}
b stink
ba'ash (Hebrew #887)
to smell bad; figuratively, to be offensive morally
KJV usage: (make to) be abhorred (had in abomination, loathsome, odious), (cause a, make to) stink(-ing savour), X utterly.
Pronounce: baw-ash'
Origin: a primitive root
and are corrupt
maqaq (Hebrew #4743)
to melt; figuratively, to flow, dwindle, vanish
KJV usage: consume away, be corrupt, dissolve, pine away.
Pronounce: maw-kak'
Origin: ' a primitive root
because
paniym (Hebrew #6440)
the face (as the part that turns); used in a great variety of applications (literally and figuratively); also (with prepositional prefix) as a preposition (before, etc.)
KJV usage: + accept, a-(be- )fore(-time), against, anger, X as (long as), at, + battle, + because (of), + beseech, countenance, edge, + employ, endure, + enquire, face, favour, fear of, for, forefront(-part), form(-er time, -ward), from, front, heaviness, X him(-self), + honourable, + impudent, + in, it, look(-eth) (- s), X me, + meet, X more than, mouth, of, off, (of) old (time), X on, open, + out of, over against, the partial, person, + please, presence, propect, was purposed, by reason of, + regard, right forth, + serve, X shewbread, sight, state, straight, + street, X thee, X them(-selves), through (+ - out), till, time(-s) past, (un-)to(-ward), + upon, upside (+ down), with(- in, + -stand), X ye, X you.
Pronounce: paw-neem'
Origin: plural (but always as singular) of an unused noun (paneh {paw-neh'}; from 6437)
of my foolishness
'ivveleth (Hebrew #200)
silliness
KJV usage: folly, foolishly(-ness).
Pronounce: iv-veh'-leth
Origin: from the same as 191
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Isa. 1:5‑6• 5Why 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. (Isa. 1:5‑6)

Cross References

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My wounds.The soul being invisible, its distempers are also so; therefore the sacred writers describe them by the distempers of the body.
(See the Parallel Texts on these verses.)
On reading these and similar passages, say Bp. Lowth, some, who were but little acquainted with the genius of Hebrew poetry, have pretended to enquire into the nature of the disease with which the poet was afflicted; not less absurdly, in my opinion, than if they had perplexed themselves to discover in what river he was plunged, when he complains that "the deep waters had gone over his soul."
Psa. 38:7• 7For my loins are filled with a loathsome disease: and there is no soundness in my flesh. (Psa. 38:7)
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Psa. 32:3• 3When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long. (Psa. 32:3)
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Isa. 1:5‑6• 5Why 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. (Isa. 1:5‑6)
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Jer. 8:22• 22Is there no balm in Gilead; is there no physician there? why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered? (Jer. 8:22)

J. N. Darby Translation

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My wounds stink, they are corruptf, because of my foolishness.

JND Translation Notes

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Or "they run."