Psalm 38:17 {37:18}
Good News Translation
I am about to fall and am in constant pain.

New Revised Standard Version
For I am ready to fall, and my pain is ever with me.

Contemporary English Version
I am about to collapse from constant pain.

New American Bible
I am very near to falling; my wounds are with me always.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For I am ready for scourges: and my sorrow is continually before me.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

For I am ready for scourges: and my sorrow is continually before me.

to halt [heb.

Psalm 35:15 But they rejoiced against me, and came together: scourges were gathered together upon me, and I knew not.

Micah 4:6,7 For all people will walk every one in the name of his god: but we will walk in the name of the Lord, our God, for ever and ever. . . .

sorrow

Psalm 38:6 I am become miserable, and am bowed down even to the end: I walked sorrowful all the day long.

Psalm 6:6 I have laboured in my groanings, every night I will wash my bed: I will water my couch with my tears.

Psalm 77:2 In the days of my trouble I sought God, with my hands lifted up to him in the night, and I was not deceived. My soul refused to be comforted:

Isaiah 53:3-5 Despised, and the most abject of men, a man of sorrows, and acquainted with infirmity: and his look was as it were hidden and despised, whereupon we esteemed him not. . . .

Context
Do Not Rebuke Me in Your Anger
16For I said: Lest at any time my enemies rejoice over me: and whilst my feet are moved, they speak great things against me. 17For I am ready for scourges: and my sorrow is continually before me.18For I will declare my iniquity: and I will think for my sin.…
Cross References
Psalm 13:2
How long shall I take counsels in my soul, sorrow in my heart all the day?

Psalm 35:15
But they rejoiced against me, and came together: scourges were gathered together upon me, and I knew not.

Psalm 38:16
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