For mine iniquities are gone over mine head: as an heavy burden they are too heavy for me.
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Gill's Exposition
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, Isa 53:5; where the same…
Barnes' Notes
For mine iniquities are gone over mine head - This is merely an enlargement of the idea suggested in the last verse - that his present sickness was to be traced to his sin, and that he was suffering…
The title of this psalm is very observable; it is a psalm to bring to remembrance; the 70th psalm, which was likewise penned in a day of affliction, is so entitled. It is designed, 1. To bring to his…
Cambridge Bible
His sins are like a flood which overwhelms (Psa 124:4-5); like a burden which crushes (Gen 4:13; Isa 53:4; Job 7:20).
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