Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Psalms 38:17
To halt — just falling into destruction. Before me — I am constantly sensible of thy just hand, and of my sins the cause of it.
To halt — just falling into destruction. Before me — I am constantly sensible of thy just hand, and of my sins the cause of it.
Verse Psalms 38:17. _FOR I_ AM _READY TO HALT_] Literally, _I am prepared to_ _halt_. So completely infirm is my soul, that it is impossible for me to take one right step in the way of righteousness,...
FOR I AM READY TO HALT - Margin, as in Hebrew, “for halting.” The word from which the word used here is derived means properly to lean on one side, and then to halt or limp. The meaning here is, that...
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...
HALT. Compare Psalms 35:15 and Genesis 32:31....
Fresh pleadings with God....
_For_&c. A further argument for a speedy hearing. For the metaphor cp. Psalms 35:15. _my sorrow_&c. I.e. my suffering is unceasingly present with me. Cp. Psalms 51:3....
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...
_FOR I AM READY TO HALT, AND MY SORROW IS CONTINUALLY BEFORE ME._ For I am ready to halt - perpetually I am all but so disabled as not to stand upright and walk anymore. So Psalms 35:15, margin. I ma...
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...
_[Psalms 38:18]_ כִּֽי ־אֲ֭נִי לְ צֶ֣לַע נָכֹ֑ון...
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...
For I [am] ready to (m) halt, and my sorrow [is] continually before me. (m) I am without hope to recover my strength....
It is blessed, and it is precious to see Christ thus rolling himself, if I may so say, upon God the Father in his trials, because it comes in as a confirmation of all the covenant-engagements concerni...
Psalms 38 _ Proper Psalm for Ash Wednesday_ (_Morning_). PSALMS 38-40 = _ Day 8_ (_Morning_)....
17_Surely I am ready to halt _This verse has led expositors to suppose that David was afflicted with some sore, from which he was afraid of having brought upon him the infirmity of halting all his day...
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...
FOR I [AM] READY TO HALT,.... Meaning either that there was a proneness in him to sin; see Jeremiah 20:10; or that he was subject to affliction and adversity, as the same word is rendered in Psalms 35...
For I [am] ready to halt, and my sorrow [is] continually before me. Ver. 17. _For I am ready to halt_] _i.e._ To misbehave mysetf and so to mar a good cause by ill-managing it, and then what will bec...
_For I am ready to halt_ To fall into destruction, Jeremiah 20:10. And, therefore, if thou dost not help me speedily it will be too late. _My sorrow is continually before me_ I am deeply and constantl...
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...
For I am ready to halt, on the point of falling with lameness, AND MY SORROW IS CONTINUALLY BEFORE ME, his feeling of guilt serving to keep his misery always before his eyes....
TO HALT: _ Heb._ for halting...
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...
READY TO HALT; just falling into utter destruction; see JEREMIAH 20:10; and therefore if thou dost not help me speedily, it will be too late. MY SORROW IS CONTINUALLY BEFORE ME; I am deeply and consta...
Psalms 38:17 ready H3559 (H8737) fall H6761 sorrow H4341 continually H8548 to halt - Heb. for halting, Psalms 35:15;...
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...
Psalms 38:17 There are some roads in which we cannot halt, the road, for instance, which leads to death. There are paths in which it is _well_to halt: the paths of infidelity and scepticism, unbelief...
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...
_For I am ready to halt._ RESOLUTION ALMOST EXHAUSTED We reach the “I will” by “I must” and “I ought.” Now, this struggle with self-will is like a man with narrow chest and feeble lungs walking in th...
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...
Isaiah 53:3; Micah 4:6; Micah 4:7; Psalms 35:15; Psalms 38:6;...