Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
Psalms 38:4
Verse Psalms 38:4. Mine iniquities are gone over mine head] He represents himself as one sinking in deep waters, or as one oppressed by a burden to which his strength was unequal.
Verse Psalms 38:4. Mine iniquities are gone over mine head] He represents himself as one sinking in deep waters, or as one oppressed by a burden to which his strength was unequal.
FOR MINE INIQUITIES ARE GONE OVER MINE HEAD - This is merely an enlargement of the idea suggested in the last verse - that his present sickness was to be traced to his sin, and that he was suffering t...
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...
INIQUITIES. Hebrew. _'aven._ App-44. OVER MINE HEAD. The reference is to the burdens of porters and carriers, which often mount up and project over the head....
The chastisement of sin....
His sins are like a flood which overwhelms (Psalms 124:4-5); like a burden which crushes (Genesis 4:13; Isaiah 53:4; Job 7:20)....
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...
FOR MINE INIQUITIES— i.e. The punishment of them; as Psalms 31:10; Psalms 32:5.—_Are gone over my head,_ is an allusion to the boisterous waves of the sea; under which a man who is shipwrecked is just...
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 MINE INIQUITIES ARE GONE OVER MINE HEAD: AS AN HEAVY BURDEN THEY ARE TOO HEAVY FOR ME._ For mine iniquities are gone over mine head - like waves over a drowning man (Psalms 42:7; Psalms 124:4; c...
38:4 over (e-6) i.e. as waters....
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...
Sin is compared first to a flood, and then to a burden....
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...
ARE GONE OVER MINE HEAD. — Like waves or a flood. (Comp. Psalms 18:15; Psalms 69:2; Psalms 69:15. Comp. “A sea of troubles.” — _Hamlet,_ Acts 3, scene 1)
_[Psalms 38:5]_ כִּ֣י עֲ֭וֹנֹתַי עָבְר֣וּ רֹאשִׁ֑י כְּ...
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 mine (e) iniquities are gone over mine head: as an heavy burden they are too heavy for me. (e) He confesses his sins, God's justice, and makes prayer his refuge....
_Out. This alludes to his sorrow for his sins, (Origen) or to the fire of charity, which is enkindled by meditation on the last end, &c., (ver. 5.) or rather it means, that while he repressed his tong...
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_)....
4._For my iniquities have passed over my head. _Here he complains that he is overwhelmed by his sins as by a heavy burden, so that he utterly faints under their weight; and yet he again confirms the d...
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 MINE INIQUITIES ARE GONE OVER MINE HEAD,.... Like an inundation of waters, as the waves and billows of the sea; for the waters to come up to the neck or chin shows great danger; but when they go o...
For mine iniquities are gone over mine head: as an heavy burden they are too heavy for me. Ver. 4. _For mine iniquities are gone over my head_] So that I am even overwhelmed by them, and almost drown...
_There is no soundness_, &c. My disease or grief hath seized upon all the parts of my body, my very bones not excepted, so that my bed can give me no rest; _because of my sin_ Which hath provoked thee...
For mine iniquities are gone over mine head, passing over him like an overwhelming flood; AS AN HEAVY BURDEN THEY ARE TOO HEAVY FOR ME, the burden bearing down upon his conscience exceeding his streng...
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...
MINE INIQUITIES; or, _the punishment of mine iniquities_, as this word is frequently used; which best agrees both with the foregoing and following verses, and with the metaphor here used; which in oth...
Psalms 38:4 iniquities H5771 over H5674 (H8804) head H7218 heavy H3515 burden H4853 heavy H3513 (H8799)...
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,...
_Mine iniquities are gone over my head._ SINS COMPARED TO DEEPENING WATERS He compareth his sins to waters which, albeit, at the first entrance they seem so shallow, that scarce they touch our ankles...
_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...
1 Peter 2:24; Ezra 9:6; Isaiah 53:11; Lamentations 1:14; Leviticus 7:18
Iniquities — Or, the punishment of mine iniquities, as this word is frequently used. Are gone — Like deep waters wherewith I am overwhelmed....