Roared, like a bear or a lion, through extreme pain and misery. By reason of the disquietness of my heart; for the great anxiety and torment of my mind, caused by the deep sense of my sins, and of God's wrath, and of the sad issue of my disease; which being added to my bodily pains, makes them more intolerable.
Verse Psalms 38:8. _I AM FEEBLE AND SORE BROKEN_] I am so exhausted with my disease that I feel as if on the brink of the grave, and unfit to appear before God; therefore "have I roared for the disqui...
I AM FEEBLE - The word used here means properly to be cold, or without warmth; and then, to be torpid or languid. Compare Genesis 45:26. Would not this be well represented by the idea of a “chill?” AN...
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...
BY REASON OF THE DISQUIETNESS OF MY HEART. Ginsburg suggests _lavi'_ instead of _lavi_. "beyond the roaring of. lion"....
I am faint and sore bruised (R.V.). Cp. Psalms 51:8; Isaiah 53:5; Isaiah 53:10. _I have roared_&c. Lit. _I have roared_(Psalms 22:1;...
The chastisement of sin....
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...
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...
_I AM FEEBLE AND SORE BROKEN: I HAVE ROARED BY REASON OF THE DISQUIETNESS OF MY HEART._ I have roared by reason of the disquietness of my heart. The bodily cry of the sufferer is the outward voice of...
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...
I AM FEEBLE AND SORE BROKEN. — Better, _I am become deadly cold, and am quite worn out._ DISQUIETNESS. — Properly, _roaring._ Thus, _of the sea_ (Isaiah 5:30), _of lions_ (Proverbs 19:12; Proverbs 20:...
_[Psalms 38:9]_ נְפוּגֹ֣ותִי וְ נִדְכֵּ֣יתִי עַד ־מְאֹ֑ד...
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...
I am feeble and sore broken: I (g) have roared by reason of the disquietness of my heart. (g) This example warns us never to despair, no matter how great the torment: but always to cry to God with su...
_Substance. Septuagint hypostasis. Hebrew, "hope." (Haydock) --- I can depend only on thee. (Calmet)_...
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...
Psalms 38 _ Proper Psalm for Ash Wednesday_ (_Morning_). PSALMS 38-40 = _ Day 8_ (_Morning_)....
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...
I AM FEEBLE,.... Both in body, natural strength being weakened by the affliction, and dried up like a potsherd by the heat of the distemper; and in soul, being weak in the exercise of faith and other...
_I am feeble and sore broken: I have roared by reason of the disquietness of my heart._ Ver. 8. _I am feeble and sore broken_] Through the length and nature of my distemper, Isaiah 38:10; Isaiah 38:1...
_I have roared_ Hebrew, שׁאגתי, _sha-agti, roared like a lion_, or a bear, namely, through extreme misery; _by reason of the disquietness of my heart_ For the great anxiety and torment of my mind, cau...
I am feeble and sore broken, chilled, benumbed, and utterly crushed; I HAVE ROARED, with loud sighs and cries, BY REASON OF THE DISQUIETNESS OF MY HEART, which caused his lips to groan and moan....
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...
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...
Psalms 38:8 feeble H6313 (H8738) severely H3966 broken H1794 (H8738) groan H7580 (H8804) turmoil H5100 heart...
My wounds are loathsome and corrupt, Because of my foolishness. I am pained and bowed down greatly, I go mourning all the day long. For my loins are filled with burning, And there is no soundness...
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...
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...
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...
Isaiah 59:11; Job 3:24; Job 30:28; Psalms 22:1; Psalms 22:2;...