The Book of Psalms 38

to bring. Ps 70:1

rebuke. Ps 6:1 Ps 88:7 Ps 88:15 Ps 88:16 Isa 27:8 Isa 54:8 Jer 10:24 Jer 30:11 Hab 3:2 Heb 12:5-11

hot. De 9:19

1 David moves God to take compassion on his pitiful case. (Title.)This deeply penitential Psalm is supposed to have been composed by David under some grievous affliction, either bodily or mental, or both, after his illicit intercourse with Bathsheba.

thine. Ps 21:12 Ps 64:7 Job 6:4 La 3:12

thy hand. Ps 32:4 Ps 39:10 Ps 39:11 De 2:15 Ru 1:13 1Sa 5:6 1Sa 5:11 1Sa 6:9

soundness. Ps 31:9 2Ch 26:19 Job 2:7 Job 2:8 Job 33:19-22 Isa 1:5 Isa 1:6

neither. Ps 6:2 Ps 51:8 Ps 102:3 Ps 102:5

rest. Heb. peace, or, health. because. Ps 51:8 Ps 90:7 Ps 90:8 La 3:40-42

mine. Ps 40:12 Ezr 9:6

as an. Le 7:18 Isa 53:11 La 1:14 Mt 11:28 1Pe 2:24

My wounds.The soul being invisible, its distempers are also so; therefore the sacred writers describe them by the distempers of the body. (See the Parallel Texts on these verses.) On reading these and similar passages, say Bp. Lowth, some, who were but little acquainted with the genius of Hebrew poetry, have pretended to enquire into the nature of the disease with which the poet was afflicted; not less absurdly, in my opinion, than if they had perplexed themselves to discover in what river he was plunged, when he complains that "the deep waters had gone over his soul." Ps 38:7 Ps 32:3 Isa 1:5 Isa 1:6 Jer 8:22

troubled. Heb. wearied. bowed. Ps 35:14 Ps 42:5 Ps 57:6 Ps 145:14

mourning. Ps 6:6 Ps 31:10 Ps 42:9 Ps 43:2 Ps 88:9 Job 30:28 Isa 38:14

my loins. Ps 41:8 2Ch 21:18 2Ch 21:19 Job 7:5 Job 30:18 Ac 12:23

no. Ps 38:3

roared. Ps 22:1 Ps 22:2 Ps 32:3 Job 3:24 Job 30:28 Isa 59:11

groaning. Ps 102:5 Ps 102:20 Joh 1:48 Ro 8:22 Ro 8:23 Ro 8:26 Ro 8:27 2Co 5:2

Lord.Instead of {adonay,} "Lord," several MSS. read {yehowah,} "Jehovah."

heart. Ps 42:1 Ps 119:81-83 Ps 143:4-7 Isa 21:4

the light. Ps 6:7 Ps 69:3 Ps 88:9 Ps 119:123 1Sa 14:27-29 La 2:11 La 5:16 La 5:17

gone from. Heb. not with.

lovers. Ps 31:11 Job 6:21-23 Job 19:13-17 Mt 26:56 Joh 16:32

stand. Lu 10:31 Lu 10:32

sore. Heb. stroke. kinsmen. or, neighbours. afar off. Lu 22:54 Lu 23:49

lay snares. Ps 10:9 Ps 64:2-5 Ps 119:110 Ps 140:5 Ps 141:9 2Sa 17:1-3 Lu 20:19 Lu 20:20

speak. Ps 35:20 Ps 62:3 Ps 62:4 2Sa 16:7 2Sa 16:8 Lu 20:21 Lu 20:22

Ps 39:2 Ps 39:9 2Sa 16:10-12 Isa 53:7 1Pe 2:23

that heareth. Am 5:13 Mic 7:5 Mr 15:3-5 Joh 8:6

in thee, etc. or, thee do I wait for. do. Ps 39:7 Ps 123:1-3

hear. or, answer. Ps 138:3

Lord.Here also, instead of {adonay,} one hundred and two MSS. read {yehowah,} "Jehovah."

For I said. Ps 13:3 Ps 13:4 Ps 35:24-26

foot. Ps 94:18 De 32:35

magnify. Ps 35:26

to halt. Heb. for halting. Ps 35:15 Mic 4:6 Mic 4:7

sorrow. Ps 38:6 Ps 6:6 Ps 77:2 Ps 77:3 Isa 53:3-5

For. Ps 32:5 Ps 51:3 Job 31:33 Job 33:27 Pr 28:13

sorry. 2Co 7:7-11

But. Ps 3:1 Ps 25:19 Ps 56:1 Ps 56:2 Ps 59:1-3

they that. Ps 35:19 Ps 69:4 Mt 10:22 Joh 15:18-25 Ac 4:25-28

are lively, etc. Heb. being living are strong.Instead of {chaymin,} "lively" Bp. Lowth would read {chinmon,} "without cause:"--"but mine enemies without cause have strengthened themselves." As this emendation renders this member of the sentence parallel to the other, it is by no means improbable: see Ps 35:19; 79:5.

render. Ps 7:4 Ps 35:12 Ps 109:3-5 1Sa 19:4-6 1Sa 23:5 1Sa 23:12 1Sa 25:16 1Sa 25:21 Jer 18:20

because. Mt 5:10 Joh 10:32 1Pe 3:13 1Pe 3:17 1Pe 3:18 1Pe 4:14-16 1Jo 3:12

O my God. Ps 22:1 Ps 22:11 Ps 22:19 Ps 22:24 Ps 35:21 Ps 35:22

Make. Ps 40:13 Ps 40:17 Ps 70:1 Ps 70:5 Ps 71:12 Ps 141:1

to help me. Heb. for my help. O Lord. Ps 27:1 Ps 62:2 Ps 62:6 Isa 12:2