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Verse Psalms 38:2. _THINE ARROWS STICK FAST IN ME_] This no doubt,
refers to the _acute pains_ which he endured; each appearing to his
feeling as if an arrow were shot into his body....
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FOR THINE ARROWS SLICK FAST IN ME - See the notes at Job 6:4. The word
rendered “stick fast” - נחת _nâchath_ - means properly to go
or come down; to descend; and the literal idea here would be, “thin...
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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 ...
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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...
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ARROWS... HAND. Figure of speech _Anthropopatheia._ App-6....
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The chastisement of sin....
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God's -arrows" are His judgements in general (Psalms 7:12: Deuteronomy
32:23); here in particular pain and sickness (Job 6:4; Job 16:12-13;...
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DISCOURSE: 567
DAVID’S DISTRESS AND CONSOLATION
Psalms 38:1. O Lord, rebuke me not in thy wrath, neither chasten me in
thy hot displeasure: for thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand
presseth me...
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FOR THINE ARROWS, &C.— _For thine arrows are entered deep into me,
and thy hand is come down upon me._ Mudge....
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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...
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38:2 me, (c-7) Lit. 'have descended into me.'...
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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...
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ARROWS] represent God's judgments as sent from afar, while His hand
suggests closer dealing....
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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...
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FOR THINE ARROWS... — The same figure is used of the disease from
which Job suffered (elephantiasis? Job 6:4); of famine (Ezekiel 5:16);
and generally of divine judgments (Deuteronomy 32:23). By itsel...
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_[Psalms 38:3]_ כִּֽי ־חִ֭צֶּיךָ נִ֣חֲתוּ
בִ֑י וַ...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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For thine (c) arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand presseth me sore.
(c) Your sickness, with which you have visited me....
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Tongue. The matter is very delicate and important, James iii. 2.,
Proverbs xviii. 21., Isaias xxxii. 17., and Ecclesiasticus xxii. 33.,
and xxviii. 28. --- Me, and was treating me with injustice and
c...
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Let any man read these verses, and then turn to the gospel, and his
mind must be led out to remark the striking similarity between what is
here said by the spirit of prophecy, and the history of the s...
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Psalms 38
_ Proper Psalm for Ash Wednesday_ (_Morning_).
PSALMS 38-40 = _ Day 8_ (_Morning_)....
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_IN A SORE PLIGHT_
‘Thy hand presseth me sore.’
Psalms 38:2
This psalm, says the inscription, was intended to bring to
remembrance—Was it God that seemed to have forgotten? The Psalmist
was evident...
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2._For thy arrows go down in me. _He shows that he was constrained by
dire necessity to ask an alleviation of his misery; for he was crushed
under the weight of the burden which he sustained. This rul...
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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...
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FOR THINE ARROWS STICK FAST IN ME,.... Meaning either words with which
as a father the Lord rebuked him; and which were sharp and cutting,
entered into him and abode with him, and gave him much pain a...
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For thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand presseth me sore.
Ver. 2. _For thine arrows stick fast in me_] _i.e._ Sicknesses of
body and troubles of mind, Job 6:4 Psalms 18:14. The Jewish doctors...
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_Neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure_ I confess that I both
deserve chastisement and need it, and therefore I do not desire that
thou shouldest entirely remove it, but only moderate it: see Psal...
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For Thine arrows stick fast in me, the arrows of God's anger having
sunk into his flesh, AND THY HAND PRESSETH ME SORE, in the misfortune
or in the dread which was oppressing him....
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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...
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1-11 Nothing will disquiet the heart of a good man so much as the
sense of God's anger. The way to keep the heart quiet, is to keep
ourselves in the love of God. But a sense of guilt is too heavy to...
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THINE ARROWS, i.e. thy judgments inflicted upon my outward and inward
man, oft compared to arrows, as DEUTERONOMY 32:23 PSALMS 7:13, PSALMS
45:5 91:5. PRESSETH ME SORE; or, _comes down upon me_; as wh...
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Psalms 38:2 arrows H2671 deeply H5181 (H8738) hand H3027 down H5181
(H8799)
thine - Psalms 21:
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1). THE PSALMIST DESCRIBES THE CHASTENING THAT HE IS EXPERIENCING AND
ACKNOWLEDGES THE HEINOUSNESS OF HIS SIN (PSALMS 38:1).
He commences with a prayer that, while God may rebuke and chasten him
as he...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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_For Thine arrows stick fast in me, and Thy hand presseth me sore._
GOD’S ARROWS
Those arrows commonly are either wicked men or devils, whom God
sendeth forth to afflict His own children, sharp as ar...
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_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...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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1 Samuel 5:11; 1 Samuel 5:6; 1 Samuel 6:9; Deuteronomy 2:15; Job 6:4;...
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Arrows — Thy judgments outward and inward....