Psalm 38:7
“For my loins are filled with a loathsome disease: and there is no soundness in my flesh.”
KJV
Read in Psalm 38Meaning
Burning pain and lack of bodily soundness continue the poem’s severe physical imagery.
Pain, discipline, and confession
Verses 1–8 describe overwhelming distress in penitential language, joining bodily pain and guilt without giving a universal formula that illness proves personal sin.
Read carefully
Burning pain and lack of bodily soundness continue the poem’s severe physical imagery.
Reflection
Burning pain and lack of bodily soundness continue the poem’s severe physical imagery.