[There is] no soundness in my flesh because of thine anger; neither [is there any] rest in my bones because of my (d) sin.
(d) David acknowledges God to be just in his punishments, because his sins had deserved much more.
Verse Psalms 38:3. _NO SOUNDNESS IN MY FLESH_] This seems to refer to some _disorder_ which so affected the _muscles_ as to produce _sores_ and _ulcers_; and so affected his _bones_ as to leave him n...
THERE IS NO SOUNDNESS IN MY FLESH - There is no sound place in my flesh; there is no part of my body that is free from disease. The word used here - מתם _m__e__thôm_ - occurs only in Judges 20:48, wh...
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...
SIN. Hebrew. _chata'._ App-44....
The chastisement of sin....
His own sin is the cause of the divine indignation which inflicts the chastisement; and while God's wrath assaults him from without, the fever of sin consumes him from within. With this verse and Psal...
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...
_THERE IS NO SOUNDNESS IN MY FLESH BECAUSE OF THINE ANGER; NEITHER IS THERE ANY REST IN MY BONES BECAUSE OF MY SIN._ Neither is there any rest ( _ shaalowm_ (H7965 ); peace or soundness) in my bones,...
38:3 indignation; (d-11) 'Punitive anger against evil.' the same word is in Psalms 69:24 ; Psalms 78:49 ; Psalms 102:10 ....
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...
REST] RV 'health.'...
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...
REST... — Better, _health._ The Hebrew is from a root meaning _to be whole. Peace_ (see margin), the reading of the LXX. and Vulg. is a derived meaning....
_[Psalms 38:4]_ אֵין ־מְתֹ֣ם בִּ֭ בְשָׂרִי מִ...
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...
Renewed. I was conscious of no offence against my enemies, (Haydock) but I reflected that I had forfeited my virtue, (Eusebius) and therefore gave vent to my grief. (Haydock) --- Being afraid of sayin...
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_)....
3._There is no soundness in my flesh because of thy anger _Others translate, _There is no beauty; _but this does not seem to be so suitable. In the clause which follows, David ascribes to God the prai...
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...
[THERE IS] NO SOUNDNESS IN MY FLESH, BECAUSE OF THINE ANGER,.... Such was the nature of the affliction the psalmist laboured under, and which he took to be an effect of the anger of God towards him, t...
__ Psalms 38:3 _[There is] no soundness in my flesh because of thine anger; neither [is there any] rest in my bones because of my sin._ Ver. 3. _There is no soundness in my flesh because of thine an...
_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...
There is no soundness in my flesh because of Thine anger, his body being ill in consequence of Jehovah's indignation over his sins; NEITHER IS THERE ANY REST IN MY BONES, no proper health and peace, B...
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...
REST: _ Heb._ peace, or health...
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...
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 to deal, thus severely with m...
Psalms 38:3 soundness H4974 flesh H1320 Because H6440 anger H2195 health H7965 bones H6106 Because H6440 sin H2403...
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,...
_There is no soundness in my flesh because of Thine anger._ --He proceedeth to exaggerate and amplify the greatness of his grief from the universality thereof; that his sickness was not laid on any on...
_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...
2 Chronicles 26:19; Isaiah 1:5; Isaiah 1:6; Job 2:7; Job 2:8;...
Sin — Which hath provoked thee to deal thus severely with me....