Psa 34:19, 38:1-8, 42:7, 77:2-4, Hab 3:17-19, 1Cor 4:11-13, 2Cor 4:8-9 | TSK | STEP

Psalms 34:19

Many.

71:20; Job 5:19; 30:9-31; 42:12; Pr 24:16; Joh 16:33; Ac 14:22

2Co 4:7-12,17; 11:23-27; 1Th 3:3,4; 2Ti 3:11,12; Heb 11:33-38

Jas 5:10,11; 1Pe 4:12,13; Re 7:14-17

but.

6,17

Psalms 38:1-8

1 David moves God to take compassion on his pitiful case.

(Title.)This deeply penitential Psalm is supposed to have been composed by David under some grievous affliction, either bodily or mental, or both, after his illicit intercourse with Bathsheba.

to bring.

70:1; *title

rebuke.

6:1; 88:7,15,16; Isa 27:8; 54:8; Jer 10:24; 30:11; Hab 3:2

Heb 12:5-11

hot.

De 9:19

thine.

21:12; 64:7; Job 6:4; La 3:12

thy hand.

32:4; 39:10,11; De 2:15; Ru 1:13; 1Sa 5:6,11; 6:9

soundness.

31:9; 2Ch 26:19; Job 2:7,8; 33:19-22; Isa 1:5,6

neither.

6:2; 51:8; 102:3,5

rest. Heb. peace, or, health. because.

51:8; 90:7,8; La 3:40-42

mine.

40:12; Ezr 9:6

as an.

Le 7:18; Isa 53:11; La 1:14; Mt 11:28; 1Pe 2:24

My wounds.The soul being invisible, its distempers are also so; therefore the sacred writers describe them by the distempers of the body. (See the Parallel Texts on these verses.) On reading these and similar passages, say Bp. Lowth, some, who were but little acquainted with the genius of Hebrew poetry, have pretended to enquire into the nature of the disease with which the poet was afflicted; not less absurdly, in my opinion, than if they had perplexed themselves to discover in what river he was plunged, when he complains that "the deep waters had gone over his soul."

7; 32:3; Isa 1:5,6; Jer 8:22

troubled. Heb. wearied. bowed.

35:14; 42:5; *marg:

57:6; 145:14

mourning.

6:6; 31:10; 42:9; 43:2; 88:9; Job 30:28; Isa 38:14

my loins.

41:8; 2Ch 21:18,19; Job 7:5; 30:18; Ac 12:23

no.

roared.

22:1,2; 32:3; Job 3:24; 30:28; Isa 59:11

Psalms 42:7

Deep calleth.

Job 1:14-19; 10:17; Jer 4:20; Eze 7:26

water-spouts.A water-spout is a large tube formed of clouds by means of the electric fluid, the base being uppermost, and the point let down perpendicularly form the clouds. It has a particular kind of circular motion at the point; and, being hollow within, attracts vast quantities of water, which it frequently pours down in torrents upon the earth. These spouts are frequent on the coast of Syria; and no doubt the Psalmist had often seen them, and the ravages which they made.

all thy.

69:14,15; 88:7,15-17; La 3:53-55; Jon 2:3