Psalms 6:1-2

1 David's complaint in his sickness.

8 He triumphs over his enemies.

A.M. 2970. B.C. 1034. (Title.) Neginoth.

4:1; *title

Sheminith. or, the eighth.

12:1; *title

1Ch 15:21; *marg:

rebuke.

2:5; 38:1; Isa 54:9; 57:16; Jer 10:24; 46:28; 1Co 11:31,32

for I.

38:7; 41:3; 103:13-17

O Lord, heal.

30:2; Ge 20:17; Ex 15:26; Nu 12:13; De 32:39; Job 5:18; Jer 17:14

Ho 6:1; Mt 4:24

my.

32:3; 38:3; 51:8; Job 19:21; 33:19-21

Psalms 22:14-15

I am.

Jos 7:5; Mt 26:38; Lu 22:44; Joh 12:27

all.

17; Da 5:6

out of joint. or, sundered. heart.

68:2; Jos 7:5; Job 23:16; Mr 14:33,34

strength.

32:3,4; Pr 17:22

tongue.

69:3,21; Job 29:10; La 4:4; Joh 19:28

into the.

30:9; 104:29; Ge 3:19; 18:27; Job 7:21; 10:9; 34:15; Isa 53:12

Da 12:2; Mt 27:50; 1Co 15:3

Psalms 38:1-10

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.

3

roared.

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

Lord.Instead of {adonay,} "Lord," several MSS. read {yehowah,} "Jehovah."

groaning.

102:5,20; Joh 1:48; Ro 8:22,23,26,27; 2Co 5:2

heart.

42:1; 119:81-83; 143:4-7; Isa 21:4

the light.

6:7; 69:3; 88:9; 119:123; 1Sa 14:27-29; La 2:11; 5:16,17

gone from. Heb. not with.

Psalms 44:25

66:11,12; 119:25; Isa 51:23; La 4:5

Psalms 73:14

For all.

34:19; 94:12; Job 7:3,4,18; 10:3,17; Jer 15:18; Am 3:2; Heb 12:5

1Pe 1:6

chastened. Heb. my chastisement was.

Psalms 73:26

flesh.

63:1; 84:2; 119:81,82; Job 13:15; 2Co 4:8-10,16-18; Php 1:21

2Ti 4:6-8; 2Pe 1:14

but.

18:2; 27:14; 138:3; Isa 40:29-31; 2Co 12:9,10

strength. Heb. rock. portion.

16:5,6; 119:57; 142:5; La 3:24; Re 21:3,4,7

Psalms 88:3-5

soul.

14,15; 22:11-21; 69:17-21; 77:2; 143:3,4; Job 6:2-4; Isa 53:3,10,11

La 3:15-19; Mt 26:37-39; Mr 14:33,34

life.

107:18; Job 33:22

counted.

28:1; 30:9; 143:7; Job 17:1; Isa 38:17,18; Eze 26:20; Jon 2:6

2Co 1:9

as a man.

31:12; 109:22-24; Ro 5:6; 2Co 13:4

Free.

Isa 14:9-12; 38:10-12; Eze 32:18-32

whom.

136:23; Ge 8:1; 19:29

cut.

16; 31:22; Job 6:9; 11:10; Isa 53:8

from thy hand. or, by thy hand.

Psalms 102:3-5

my days.

37:20; 119:83; Jas 4:14

like smoke. or, (as some read) into smoke. my bones.

22:14,15; 31:10; 38:3; Job 30:30; La 1:13; 3:4

heart.

6:2,3; 42:6; 55:4,5; 69:20; 77:3; 143:3,4; Job 6:4; 10:1; La 3:13,20

Mt 26:37,38

withered.

11; 37:2; Isa 40:7

so that.

9; 1Sa 1:7,8; Ezr 10:6; Ac 9:9

the voice.

6:6,8; 32:3,4; 38:8-10; Job 19:20; Pr 17:22; La 4:8

skin. or, flesh.

Psalms 107:10

Such.Here begins the second comparison; in which the state of the captives in Babylon is illustrated by that of prisoners in a dreary dungeon.

as sit.

Job 3:5; Isa 9:2; Mt 4:16; 22:13; Lu 1:79

bound.

105:18; Ex 2:23,24; 2Ch 33:11; Job 36:8,9; La 3:6,7; Ro 6:20,21
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