2Ch 6:28, Psa 6:2-3, 38:3-8, Isa 1:5-6, Hos 5:13, 6:1 | TSK | STEP | if there be dearth."Persia," says Chardin, "is subject to have its harvest spoiled by hail, by drought, or by insects; either locusts, or small insects, which they call {sim,} which are small white lice;" probably the caterpillars of the text. locusts. their enemies. cities of their land. Heb. land of their gates. whatsoever.

‏ 2 Chronicles 6:28

if there be dearth."Persia," says Chardin, "is subject to have its harvest spoiled by hail, by drought, or by insects; either locusts, or small insects, which they call {sim,} which are small white lice;" probably the caterpillars of the text.

20:5-13; Le 26:16,25,26; De 28:21-61; Ru 1:1; 1Ki 8:37-40

2Ki 6:25-29; 8:1

locusts.

Ex 10:12-15; Joe 1:4-7,11; 2:25; Re 9:3-11

their enemies.

12:2-5; 20:9-13; 32:1; Le 26:25; De 28:52-57

cities of their land. Heb. land of their gates. whatsoever.

32:24; 1Ki 8:37,38; Jas 5:13

‏ Psalms 6:2-3

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

My.

22:14; 31:9,10; 38:8; 42:5,11; 77:2,3; Pr 18:14; Mt 26:38

how.

13:1,2; 77:7; 90:13; Lu 18:7

‏ Psalms 38:3-8

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