Geneva Study Bible Commentary
Psalms 38:11
My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my sore; and my (i) kinsmen stand afar off.
(i) Partly for fear and partly for pride, they denied all duty and friendship.
My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my sore; and my (i) kinsmen stand afar off.
(i) Partly for fear and partly for pride, they denied all duty and friendship.
Verse Psalms 38:11. _MY LOVERS_] Those who professed much affection for me; my friends, רעי _reai_, my _companions_, who never before left my company, _stand aloof_. _MY KINSMEN_] קרובי _kerobai_, m...
MY LOVERS - See the notes at Psalms 31:11. The reference here is to those who professed to be his friends. AND MY FRIENDS - The word used here means properly an acquaintance, a companion, a friend, Jo...
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...
SORE. stroke. Used of. leprous stroke. KINSMEN. neighbours....
_from my sore_ R.V. from my plague. The word is specially used of the plague of leprosy (Leviticus 13:3, &c.). His friends treat him as a leper, standing _over against him_, within sight but at a dist...
The neglect of friends and the scorn of enemies augment his sufferings....
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...
_MY LOVERS AND MY FRIENDS STAND ALOOF FROM MY SORE; AND MY KINSMEN STAND AFAR OFF._ My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my sore - literally, 'stand over against my stroke.' At the very time whe...
38:11 stroke; (h-10) Or 'plague,' as Genesis 12:17 ; and so in Psalms 39:10 ....
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...
SORE is rather _stroke,_ as in margin, or _plague._ His friends, looking on him as “one smitten of God,” and thinking “he must be wicked to deserve such pain,” abandon him as too vile for their societ...
_[Psalms 38:12]_ אֹֽהֲבַ֨י ׀ וְ רֵעַ֗י מִ נֶּ֣גֶד...
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...
_In (thy) rebukes, belongs to the next verse in Hebrew and Septuagint, referring to man in general, unless the prophet mean himself. (Berthier)_...
Look at the cross, and behold Jesus's relations and disciples indeed standing afar off. Angels might well have done the same, for none but the arm of God could bear up the burden of sin. Matthew 26:56...
Psalms 38 _ Proper Psalm for Ash Wednesday_ (_Morning_). PSALMS 38-40 = _ Day 8_ (_Morning_)....
11_My friends and my companions stand away from my sore _Here David enumerates other circumstances to show the aggravated character of his misery, that he might excite the compassion of God. One of th...
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...
MY LOVERS AND MY FRIENDS STAND ALOOF FROM MY SORE,.... As if it was a plague sore, lest they should be infected with it; or because they could not bear the stench of his wounds, and the loathsomeness...
My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my sore; and my kinsmen stand afar off. Ver. 11. _My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my sore_] Heb. my stroke, which, therefore, some Jewish doctors w...
_My lovers and friends stand aloof_ Either through neglect and contempt, or disdain of me. _They that seek my life lay snares for me_ That if my affliction or trouble do not kill me, they may destroy...
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...
My lovers and my friends, those whose acquaintance and friendship he valued, STAND ALOOF FROM MY SORE, on account of the stroke, or plague, which the Lord had laid upon him; AND MY KINSMEN STAND AFAR...
SORE: _ Heb._ stroke MY KINSMEN: Or, my neighbors...
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...
Either through neglect, and contempt, or disdain of me; or through delicacy and abhorrency from loathsome and sadding spectacles; or through fear of infection, or some other inconveniences....
Psalms 38:11 ones H157 (H8802) friends H7453 stand H5975 (H8799) aloof H5048 plague H5061 relatives H7138 stand...
2). HE LOOKS TO HIS SOVEREIGN LORD AMIDST EVEN THE DESERTION OF HIS FRIENDS AND LOVED ONES (PSALMS 38:9). Up to this point the Psalmist's emphasis has been on his own personal state. It is his state o...
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 38:9 The singer’s FRIENDS AND COMPANIONS STAND ALOOF (v. Psalms 38:11), thus adding loneliness to helplessness (vv....
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...
Job 19:13; Job 6:21; John 16:32; Luke 10:31; Luke 10:32;...