2 Samuel 19:19

And said.

Ec 10:4

Let not.

1Sa 22:15; Ps 32:2; Ro 4:6-8; 2Co 5:19

remember.

Ps 79:8; Isa 43:25; Jer 31:34

did perversely.

16:5-9,10-14; Ex 10:16,17; 1Sa 26:21; Mt 27:4

take it.

13:20,33; 1Sa 25:25

2 Samuel 24:10

David's heart.

1Sa 24:5; Joh 8:9; 1Jo 3:20,21

I have sinned.

12:13; 1Ch 21:8; 2Ch 32:26; Job 33:27,28; Ps 32:5; Pr 28:13

Mic 7:8,9; 1Jo 1:9

take away.

Job 7:21; Ho 14:2; Joh 1:29

foolishly.

12:13; De 32:6; 1Sa 13:13; 26:21; 2Ch 16:9; Mr 7:22; Tit 3:3

2 Chronicles 16:9

the eyes.

6:20; Job 34:21; Ps 34:15; 113:6; Pr 5:21; 15:3; Jer 16:17; 32:19

Zec 4:10; Heb 4:13; 1Pe 3:12

to shew himself, etc. or, strongly to hold with them, etc.whose heart.

15:17; 2Ki 20:3; Ps 37:37

Herein.

1Sa 13:13; 2Sa 12:7-12; 1Ch 21:8; Job 34:18,19; Jer 5:21; Mt 5:22

Lu 12:20; 1Co 15:36; Ga 3:1

henceforth.

1Ki 15:32

Psalms 38:1-5

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

Proverbs 30:32

thou hast done.

26:12; Ec 8:3

lay.

17:28; Job 21:5; 40:4; Ec 8:4; Mic 7:16,17; Ro 3:19
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