Psalms 38:7-8
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Other commentaries on this verse
- John Gill - Exposition - Psalms 38
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- John Gill - Exposition - Psalms 38:8
- Matthew Henry - Complete Commentary - Psalms 38
- Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Psalms 38:7-9
Psalms 38:7-8. For my loins are filled with a loathsome disease: and there is no soundness in my flesh. I am feeble and sore broken: I have roared by reason of the disquietness of my heart.
That is an expressive word that David uses: "I have roared." He felt as if his prayers were more like the agonized cries of a wounded beast than the intelligent supplications of a human being, - least of all, of a man of God; and, sometimes, when the spirit is greatly bowed down, it cannot express itself in words, but has to be content with groans, and cries, and sobs, and tears.