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Psalm 38:7-9
New English Translation
Psalm 38:7-9
New English Translation
7 For I am overcome with shame,[a]
and my whole body is sick.[b]
8 I am numb with pain and severely battered;[c]
I groan loudly because of the anxiety I feel.[d]
9 O Lord, you understand my heart’s desire;[e]
my groaning is not hidden from you.
Footnotes
- Psalm 38:7 tn Heb “for my loins are filled with shame.” The “loins” are viewed here as the seat of the psalmist’s emotions. The present translation assumes that נִקְלֶה (niqleh) is derived from קָלָה (qalah, “be dishonored”). Some derive it instead from a homonymic root קָלָה (qalah), meaning “to roast.” In this case one might translate “fever” (cf. NEB “my loins burn with fever”).
- Psalm 38:7 tn Heb “there is no soundness in my flesh” (see v. 3).
- Psalm 38:8 tn Heb “I am numb and crushed to excess.”
- Psalm 38:8 tn Heb “I roar because of the moaning of my heart.”
- Psalm 38:9 tn Heb “O Lord, before you [is] all my desire.”
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