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 3:2Heb 12:5-11hot.De 9:19 thine.21:12; 64:7; Job 6:4; La 3:12thy 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 1:5,6neither.6:2; 51:8; 102:3,5rest. Heb. peace, or, health. because.51:8; 90:7,8; La 3:40-42 mine.40:12; Ezr 9:6as 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; 145:14mourning.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 12:23no.3 roared.22:1,2; 32:3; Job 3:24; 30:28; Isa 59:11Psalms 78:30-31
But.Nu 11:33,34; 22:20-22; Pr 1:32; Lu 16:19-23 smote down. Heb. made to bow. chosen men. or, young men.63Psalms 89:31-34
break. Heb. profane.55:20; *marg: Ex 32:34; 2Sa 7:14; 1Ki 11:6,14,31,39; Pr 3:11,12; Am 3:21Co 11:31,32; Heb 12:6-11 Nevertheless.2Sa 7:13,15; 1Ki 11:13,32,36; Isa 54:8-10; Jer 33:20-26La 3:31,32; 1Co 15:25not utterly take. Heb. not make void.39; 1Sa 15:29fail. Heb. lie.Heb 6:18 covenant.Le 26:44; Jer 14:21; 33:20nor.Nu 23:19; Mal 3:6; Mt 24:35; Ro 11:29; Jas 1:17Amos 3:2
only.Ex 19:5,6; De 7:6; 10:15; 26:18; 32:9; Ps 147:19; Isa 63:19all.Ge 10:32; Jer 1:15; 10:25; Na 3:4; Zec 14:17,18; Ac 17:26therefore.Eze 9:6; 20:36-38; Da 9:12; Mt 11:20-24; Lu 12:47,48; Ro 2:91Pe 4:17punish. Heb. visit upon.Jer 9:25; 11:22; 13:21; *marginsHo 2:13; 8:13; 9:9Hebrews 12:5-11
ye have forgotten.De 4:9,10; Ps 119:16,83,109; Pr 3:1; 4:5; Mt 16:9,10; Lu 24:6,8the exhortation.7; Pr 3:11,12despise.Job 5:17,18; 34:31; Ps 94:12; 118:18; 119:75; Jer 31:18; 1Co 11:32Jas 1:12; Re 3:19nor faint.3,4; Jos 7:7-11; 2Sa 6:7-10; 1Ch 13:9-13; 15:12,13; Ps 6:1,22Co 4:8,9; 12:9,10 whom.De 8:5; Ps 32:1-5; 73:14,15; 89:30-34; 119:71,75; Pr 3:12; 13:24Isa 27:9; Jer 10:24; Jas 1:12; 5:11; Re 3:19and scourgeth.7,8; 2Sa 7:14 endure.Job 34:31,32; Pr 19:18; 22:15; 23:13,14; 29:15,17; Ac 14:22for what.1Sa 2:29,34; 3:13; 1Ki 1:6; 2:24,25; Pr 13:24; 29:15 6; Ps 73:1,14,15; 1Pe 5:9,10 fathers.Joh 3:6; Ac 2:30; Ro 1:3; 9:3,5corrected.7we gave.Ex 20:12; Le 19:3; De 21:18-21; 27:16; Pr 30:17; Eze 22:7; Eph 6:1-4shall we not.Mal 1:6; Jas 4:7,10; 1Pe 5:6the Father.Nu 16:22; 27:16; Job 12:10; Ec 12:7; Isa 42:5; 57:16; Zec 12:1 after their own pleasure. or, as seemed good, or meet, tothem. but he. 5,6partakers.Le 11:44,45; 19:2; Ps 17:15; Eze 36:25-27; Eph 4:24; 5:26,27Col 1:22; Tit 2:14; 1Pe 1:15,16; 2:5,9; 2Pe 1:4 no chastening.Ps 89:32; 118:18; Pr 15:10; 19:18nevertheless.5,6,10peaceable.Ps 119:165; Isa 32:17; Ro 5:3-5; 14:17; 2Co 4:17; Ga 5:22,23Jas 3:17,18exercised.5:14; 1Ti 4:7,8; 2Pe 2:14; *Gr:Revelation of John 3:19
many.De 8:5; 2Sa 7:14; Job 5:17; Ps 6:1; 39:11; 94:10; Pr 3:11,12; 15:10Pr 15:32; 22:15; Isa 26:16; Jer 2:30; 7:28; 10:24; 30:11; 31:18Zep 3:2; 1Co 11:32; 2Co 6:9; Heb 12:5-11; Jas 1:12be.Nu 25:11-13; Ps 69:9; Joh 2:17; Ro 12:11; 2Co 7:11; Ga 4:18Tit 2:14repent.2:5,21,22
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