Psalm 38:5

5 Meine Wunden stinken und eitern vor meiner Torheit.

Psalm 38:5 Meaning and Commentary

Psalms 38:5

My wounds stink, [and] are corrupt
Meaning his sins, which had wounded him, and for which there is no healing but in a wounded Saviour, and by his stripes we are healed, ( Isaiah 53:5 ) ; where the same word is used as here; Christ's black and blue stripes and wounds, as the word signifies, are the healing of ours, both of sins, and of the effects of them; which, to a sensible sinner, are as nauseous and loathsome as an old wound that is festered and corrupt;

because of my foolishness:
as all sin arises from foolishness, which is bound in the hearts of men, and from whence it arises, ( Mark 7:22 ) ; perhaps the psalmist may have respect to his folly with Bathsheba, which had been the occasion of all the distress that is spoken of both before and afterwards.

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Psalm 38:5 In-Context

3 Es ist nichts Gesundes an meinem Leibe vor deinem Drohen und ist kein Friede in meinen Gebeinen vor meiner Sünde.
4 Denn meine Sünden gehen über mein Haupt; wie eine schwere Last sind sie mir zu schwer geworden.
5 Meine Wunden stinken und eitern vor meiner Torheit.
6 Ich gehe krumm und sehr gebückt; den ganzen Tag gehe ich traurig.
7 Denn meine Lenden verdorren ganz, und ist nichts Gesundes an meinem Leibe.
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