My wounds are loathsome and corrupt, because of my foolishness.
Parallel translations
- KJV My wounds stink and are corrupt because of my foolishness.
- BSB My wounds are foul and festering because of my sinful folly.
- NKJV My wounds are foul and festering Because of my foolishness.
- NASB My wounds grow foul and fester Because of my foolishness.
- NLT My wounds fester and stink because of my foolish sins.
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Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 5
- Isa 1:5–6Why should you be beaten more, that you revolt more and more? The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.
- Ps 69:5God, you know my foolishness. My sins aren’t hidden from you.
- Jer 8:22Is there no balm in Gilead? is there no physician there? Why then isn’t the health of the daughter of my people recovered?
- Ps 38:7For my waist is filled with burning. There is no soundness in my flesh.
- Ps 32:3When I kept silence, my bones wasted away through my groaning all day long.
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