“For my loins are filled with a loathsome disease: and there is no soundness in my flesh.”
The psalmist describes how his loins are filled with burning and there is no soundness in his flesh. The vivid language of burning in the loins suggests acute physical pain in the depths of the body. The assertion that there is no soundness anywhere suggests comprehensive physical deterioration. This verse emphasizes the totality of the physical affliction affecting the psalmist.
Church Fathers on Psalms 38:7
A psalm to David himself, on the remembrance of the Sabbath. 1. What does this recollection of the Sabbath mean? What is this Sabbath? For it is with groaning that he “calls it to recollection.” You have both heard already when the Psalm was read, and you will now hear it when we shall go over it, how great is his groaning, his mourning, his tears, his misery. But happy he who is wretched after this manner! Whence the Lord also in the Gospel Matthew 5:4 called some who mourn…
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