Key Verse Spotlight
Psalms 38:8 — Meaning and Application
King James Version
“I am feeble and sore broken: I have roared by reason of the disquietness of my heart.”
Psalms 38:8
Verse in Context
Understanding the surrounding verses prevents misinterpretation:
I am troubled; I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long. {troubled: Heb. wried}
For my loins are filled with a loathsome {disease}: and {there is} no soundness in my flesh.
I am feeble and sore broken: I have roared by reason of the disquietness of my heart.
Lord, all my desire {is} before thee; and my groaning is not hid from thee.
My heart panteth, my strength faileth me: as for the light of mine eyes, it also is gone from me. {is gone...: Heb. is not with me}
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