But mine enemies are lively, and they are strong: and they that hate me wrongfully are multiplied.
But mine enemies are lively, and they are strong. Whilst the sufferer is like one dead, through want of strength, his enemies are full of life and strength.
And they that hate me wrongfully are multiplied - (Psalms 35:19.) Especially true of Messiah (John 15:25).
Verse Psalms 38:19. _BUT MINE ENEMIES_ ARE _LIVELY_] Instead of חיים _chaiyim, lively_, I would read חינם _chinam, without cause_; a change made by the half of one letter, נ _nun_ for a י _yod_. See...
BUT MINE ENEMIES ARE LIVELY ... - DeWette renders this, “My enemies live and are strong.” The word translated “lively” - חיים _chayiym_ - means properly “living, being alive.” The literal translation...
Psalms 38 The Suffering Saint and Confession of Sin _ 1. Suffering and Humiliation (Psalms 38:1)_ 2. Looking to the Lord (Psalms 38:9) 3. Confession and prayer ...
XXXVIII. A PENITENTIAL PSALM. After a short prayer for pity (verbally identical with Psalms 6:2), the poet describes his bodily and mental pains, the desertion of his friends, and the unscrupulous att...
_mine enemies_are _lively_ He contrasts their vigour with his own weakness. But the expression is somewhat strange; and a comparison of Psalms 35:19 suggests that we should read without cause, corresp...
Fresh pleadings with God....
PSALMS 38 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE Prayer for Deliverance from Disease and from Enemies. ANALYSIS Part I. _Against Disease._ Stanza I., Psalms 38:1-2, Jehovah's Anger Deprecated. Stanza II., Psalms 38:3-5...
This Ps. may be compared with Psalms 6. It is the prayer of one who, like Job, is in great bodily suffering (Psalms 38:1), and is also deserted by his friends (Psalms 38:11), and beset by treacherous...
Psalms 1:41 _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ Words in boxes are from the Bible. The notes explain some of the words with a *star by them. Tap the * before a word to show an explanation. The translated Bible tex...
BUT MINE ENEMIES ARE LIVELY. — See margin. But the parallelism and a comparison with Psalms 35:19 lead to the suspicion that the true reading is “without cause.”...
_[Psalms 38:20]_ וְֽ֭ אֹיְבַי חַיִּ֣ים עָצֵ֑מוּ וְ...
Psalms 38:1 THIS is a long-drawn wail. passionate at first, but gradually calming itself into submission and trust, though never passing from the minor key. The name of God is invoked thrice (Psalms 3...
THE CRY OF THE NEEDY PENITENT Psalms 38:1 A long drawn-out sigh of pain. Some think it should be classed with Psalms 32:1; Psalms 51:1, as belonging to the time of David's fall and repentance. It is...
This is the third of what are known as the penitential psalms. The circumstances of the singer were most distressing. He was suffering from some terrible physical malady, deserted by his friends, and...
But mine (n) enemies [are] lively, [and] they are strong: and they that hate me wrongfully are multiplied. (n) In my greatest misery they most rejoice....
I need not enlarge on these verses, they all express the same blessed truths, and bear a gracious correspondence to the whole tenor of this Psalm. Jehovah is the salvation of his people, and Christ is...
Psalms 38 _ Proper Psalm for Ash Wednesday_ (_Morning_). PSALMS 38-40 = _ Day 8_ (_Morning_)....
This _living, _(58) which he attributes to his enemies, implies as much as to enjoy continued and abundant prosperity in all things; and therefore he adds, that they _are become strong and increase in...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS PSALMS 38 AND 39. Psalms 38 and 39 have, as I have said, a distinct and peculiar character. The deliverance has been sought and looked for by the upright, and forgivene...
BUT MINE ENEMIES [ARE] LIVELY,.... Or "living" q or "live"; not in a spiritual sense; for they had no lively hope, nor living faith, but were dead in trespasses and sins; nor merely in a natural sense...
But mine enemies [are] lively, [and] they are strong: and they that hate me wrongfully are multiplied. Ver. 19. _Mine enemies are lively, &c._] _q.d._ It is nuts to them, and they soon compose comedi...
_Mine enemies are lively_ Hebrew, _living;_ that is, thriving, flourishing, and prosperous. _They that render evil for good_ That hate and persecute me, not only without any injury or provocation on m...
PRAYER FOR RELIEF FROM A BURDEN OF GUILT. A psalm of David, to bring to remembrance, to remind God of His great mercy toward poor sinners, the hymn probably being intended for that part of worship wh...
But mine enemies, by way of contrast to his dejected state, ARE LIVELY, full of vitality and vigor, AND THEY ARE STRONG; AND THEY THAT HATE ME WRONGFULLY ARE MULTIPLIED, coming against him in ever-inc...
ARE LIVELY: _ Heb._ being living, are strong...
12-22 Wicked men hate goodness, even when they benefit by it. David, in the complaints he makes of his enemies, seems to refer to Christ. But our enemies do us real mischief only when they drive us f...
LIVELY, Heb. _living_, i.e. thriving, or flourishing, or prosperous, as life is used, PSALMS 22:26, PSALMS 34:12, and elsewhere....
Psalms 38:19 enemies H341 (H8802) vigorous H2416 strong H6105 (H8804) hate H8130 (H8802) wrongfully H8267 multiplied
3). HE CALLS ON YHWH HIS LORD FOR DELIVERANCE FROM HIS ENEMIES IN VIEW OF HIS OWN DEEP REPENTANCE AND HIS CONFIDENCE IN THE TRUE FAITHFULNESS TO HIM OF YHWH, HIS GOD AND LORD (PSALMS 38:15). As we hav...
I am going to read two portions of Scripture. In the first, the 38 th Psalm, we shall hear a suffering servant of Jehovah crying out to his God. Psalms 38:1. _O LORD, rebuke me not in thy wrath: neit...
A Psalm of David, to bring to remembrance. Remember, although this is a very sorrowful Psalm, it was written by a man of God. It will show you what a terrible thing sin must be, for even a child of Go...
CONTENTS: David's grief, complaints and confession. CHARACTERS: God, David. CONCLUSION: God often contends with His children to awaken their consciences and to set their sins in order before them fo...
In Psalms 38:19, David intimates that he was hated wrongfully, because he followed good. This psalm was composed under some new outbreaking of Saul's persecution, when his mind sunk under depression,...
_O Lord, rebuke me not in Thy wrath: neither chasten me in Thy hot displeasure._ GREAT PERSONAL AFFLICTION I. Elements of aggravation. 1. A dread of Divine displeasure (Psalms 38:1). 2. A crushing...
PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 38:1. In this lament the singer lays his troubles before God, fully realizing that those troubles result from his own sin. The psalm describes anguish of body and mind, dese...
PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 38:15 The singer shows true faith in confessing his sin (v. Psalms 38:18) and in calling the Lord his SALVATION (v....
INTRODUCTION This is a psalm of David to call to remembrance his past life, and, no doubt, has especial reference to his sin with Bathsheba. It calls up to the view of his memory the sins of the past,...
EXPOSITION THIS is the third of the penitential psalms, and is appropriately recited by the Church on Ash Wednesday. Of all the penitential psalms it is the one which shows the deepest marks of utter...
Psa 38:1-22. This is read on Yom Kippur. Now David, through some sin, and he doesn't tell us what, became very sick. And this psalm is occasion by this great sickness that David had because of some si...
Acts 4:25; John 15:18; Matthew 10:22; Psalms 25:19; Psalms 3:1;...
Strong — Are thriving and flourishing....