Psa 38:1-8, 90:7-10, 1Cor 5:5, 11:30-32, Heb 12:6, Rev 3:19 | TSK | STEP | 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. rebuke. hot.

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 90:7-10

For we.

9,11; 39:11; 59:13; Nu 17:12,13; De 2:14-16; Heb 3:10,11,17-19

Heb 4:1,2

are we.

Ex 14:24; Ro 2:8,9

Thou.

10:11; 50:21; 139:1-4; Job 34:21; Jer 9:13-16; 16:17; 23:24

Eze 8:12; Re 20:12

our.

19:12; Pr 5:21; Ec 12:14; Lu 12:1,2; Ro 2:16; 1Co 4:5; Heb 4:12,13

1Jo 3:20

in the.

80:16

For.

78:33

passed. Heb. turned. we spend.The Vulgate has, {Anni nostri sicut aranea mediatabuntur,} "Our years pass away like those of the spider." Our plans and operations are like the spider's web. Life is as frail, and the thread of it as brittle, as one of those which constitute the well-wrought and curious, but fragile habitation of that insect. All the Versions have the word spider, but it is not found in any Hebrew MSS., or edition yet collated. The Hebrew might be rendered, "We consume our lives with a groan," {kemo hegeh.}

a tale. Heb. a meditation.

4; 39:5

The days, etc. Heb. As for the days of our years, in themare seventy years.

Ge 47:9; De 34:7

yet.

2Sa 19:35; 1Ki 1:1; Ec 12:2-7

for.

78:39; Job 14:10; *marg:

Job 24:24; Isa 38:12; Lu 12:20; Jas 4:14