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Psalms 38:7 — King James Version← Study notes

For my loins are filled with a loathsome disease: and there is no soundness in my flesh.


Psalms 38:7Hebrew Interlinear

Hebrew · Psalms 38:78 words
HebrewMeaning
נַעֲוֵ֣יתִיnaʿăwēytiy
I am bent downverbH5753
bow down · make crooked · commit iniquity · pervert ···
שַׁחֹ֣תִיšaḥōtiy
I am bent oververbH7817
bow · bring down · couch · humble self ···
עַדʿad
up topronH5704
and · as · at · before ···
מְאֹ֑דməʾōd
muchnessadvH3966
especially · exceeding · far · fast ···
כָּלkāl
allnounH3605
) · altogether · any · enough ···
הַ֝/יּ֗וֹםhaywōm
the dayparticleH3117
always · chronicals · continually · daily ···
קֹדֵ֥רqōdēr
mourningverbH6937
be dark · heavily · mourn
הִלָּֽכְתִּיhilākətiy
I have gone aboutverbH1980
apace · behave · come · continually ···
Words are listed top to bottom following the original right-to-left reading order. אֵת (ʾēṯ) is a direct object marker with no English equivalent, shown faded.

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…

Augustine · 4th century · Exposition on Psalm 38 (excerpt)
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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