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Psalm 38:5

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38:5My wounds7 are infected and starting to smell,8

because of my foolish sins.9

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Footnotes

  1. 7 The reference to wounds may be an extension of the metaphorical language of v. 2. The psalmist pictures himself as one whose flesh is ripped and torn by arrows.
  2. 8 Heb “my wounds stink, they are festering” (cf. ).
  3. 9 Heb “from before my foolishness.”

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In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

My wounds stink and fester

because of my foolishness,

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NIVNew International Version (2011)

My wounds fester and are loathsome

because of my sinful folly.

Copyright 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 Biblica, Inc.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

My wounds are foul and festering

because of my foolishness.

Copyright 2017 Holman Bible Publishers

NLTNew Living Translation

My wounds fester and stink

because of my foolish sins.

Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers. All rights reserved.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

My wounds start to stink; they rot

because of my foolishness.

Copyright 2012 Lexham Press

KJV 1900King James Version

My wounds stink and are corrupt

Because of my foolishness.

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