For my loins are full of burning pain, and no soundness remains in my body.
Parallel translations
- WEB For my waist is filled with burning. There is no soundness in my flesh.
- KJV For my loins are filled with a loathsome disease: and there is no soundness in my flesh.
- NKJV For my loins are full of inflammation, And there is no soundness in my flesh.
- NASB For my sides are filled with burning, And there is no healthy part in my flesh.
- NLT A raging fever burns within me, and my health is broken.
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Quick answer
David's body burns with feverish pain and there is no soundness in his flesh. His suffering is intense and unrelieved.
Overview
David continues describing his physical anguish, a burning in his body and no health in his flesh. The repetition of 'no soundness' (cf. v.3) underscores how thoroughly his sin and God's chastening have affected him. Such honest lament before God is itself an act of faith, bringing the whole ruin of sin to the only One who can heal, supremely through the gospel of Christ.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 6
- Ps 102:3For my days vanish like smoke, and my bones burn like glowing embers.
- 2 Chr 21:18–19After all this, the LORD afflicted Jehoram with an incurable disease of the bowels.
- Acts 12:23Immediately, because Herod did not give glory to God, an angel of the Lord struck him down, and he was eaten by worms and died.
- Job 7:5My flesh is clothed with worms and encrusted with dirt; my skin is cracked and festering.
- Ps 41:8“A vile disease has been poured into him; he will never get up from where he lies!”
- Job 30:18With great force He grasps my garment; He seizes me by the collar of my tunic.
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