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John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
INTRODUCTION TO Psalms 38 A Psalm of David, to bring to remembrance. This psalm was composed by David under some sore affliction, and when in great distress of mind by reason of sin, perhaps his sin with Bathsheba; and was written as a memorial of his sense of sin, of his great afflictions, and deliverance from them; and therefore is said to be...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
O Lord, rebuke me not in thy wrath: neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure,.... This and the following clause are the same as in Psalms 6:1, only instead of wrath there it is anger; [See comments on Psalms 6:1].
Matthew Henry - Complete Commentary - Matthew Henry
This is one of the penitential psalms; it is full of grief and complaint from the beginning to the end. David's sins and his afflictions are the cause of his grief and the matter of his complaints. It should seem he was now sick and in pain, which reminded him of his sins and helped to humble him for them; he was, at the same time, deserted by his...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
O Lord, rebuke me not in thy wrath: “If thou dost rebuke me, O Lord, do it gently! Be not very angry with me, for I cannot bear it, I shall die under it. O Lord, rebuke me not in thy wrath.” Psa_38:1. Neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure. “Chasten me, it will do me good; it is needful; it is profitable; but not in thy displeasure, certainly...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
O LORD, rebuke me not in thy wrath: neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure. “If thou dost rebuke me, do it gently, O my Lord! If thou dost chasten me, let not thy displeasure wax hot against thy servant.”
Spurgeon - Treasury of David - Charles H. Spurgeon
Ver. 1. O Lord, rebuke me not in thy wrath. Rebuked I must be, for I am an erring child and thou a careful Father, but throw not too much anger into the tones of thy voice; deal gently although I have sinned grievously. The anger of others I can bear, but not thine. As thy love is most sweet to my heart, so thy displeasure is most cutting to my...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
For thine arrows stick fast in me,.... Meaning either words with which as a father the Lord rebuked him; and which were sharp and cutting, entered into him and abode with him, and gave him much pain and uneasiness; and by which he concluded that his rebukes were in wrath and hot displeasure; such as those in 2 Samuel 12:11; so the words of men are...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For thine arrows stick fast in me, Does God shoot at his own children? Yes, but only that he may kill the sin in them; and he knows how to make his arrows stick, and stick fast, too, in his own dear children. The Lord hates sin with a perfect hatred. Even when sin was laid on Christ, even though it was none of his, yet the Father forsook him. He...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand presseth me sore. God may aim his arrows even at his own children, and he may lay his hand very heavily upon those whom he deeply loves.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
[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, that the whole frame of nature was affected with it, and from the crown of the head to, the soles of the feet there was no health or soundness, as in...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
There is no soundness in my flesh because of thine anger; He felt as if his very flesh was decaying, rotting, dissolving, and that there was no soundness in it. When God deals with men in a way of anger, they cannot stand against him any more than the wale can resist the heat of the furnace. Beware, I pray you, that you provoke not God’s eternal...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
There is no soundness in my flesh because of thine anger; neither is there any rest in my bones because of my sin. David was under the afflicting hand of God even with regard to his bodily disease. He could have borne the pain if it had been merely physical; but there was a sense of sin mixed with it which made it sting him in his very soul.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
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 over the head the case is desperate, and a person is sinking and drowning; compare with this Psalms 69:1; the simile may denote both the number and...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For mine iniquities are gone over mine head: David was like a man who has sunk seven fathoms deep. Big waves of iniquity rolled over him, and he saw no light, no hope, no way of escape. Psa_38:4. As an heavy burden they are too heavy for me. It is a great mercy when sin is a burden; for, when it becomes too heavy for us to bear, Christ will bear...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For mine iniquities are gone over mine head: as an heavy burden they are too heavy for me. My wounds stink and are corrupt because of my foolishness. David had some painful old sores; I mean, old sins; and they seem to have broken out again and again, and when he wrote this Psalm, he was groaning in his spirit at the remembrance of them. His faith...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
My wounds stink, [and] are corrupt,.... Meaning his sins, which had wounded him, and for which there is no healing but in a wounded Saviour, and by his stripes we are healed, Isaiah 53:5; where the same word is used as here; Christ's black and blue stripes and wounds, as the word signifies, are the healing of ours, both of sins, and of the effects...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
My wounds stink and are corrupt because of my foolishness. He got to be so bad that he could not bear himself. His sorrow on account of his folly had made him feel as if he was a corrupt being, like one suffering with a foul cancer, unfitted for the company of his fellows: “My wounds stink and are corrupt because of my foolishness.” As I read that...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
I am troubled,.... Discomposed and perplexed in mind; his thoughts were disturbed and irregular, and in the utmost confusion and distress: this trouble was not only on account of the affliction that was upon him, but chiefly because of his sin; and which was increased by the view he had of the displeasure of God, concluding he was come forth...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I am troubled; I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long. I again remind you that this is a child of God, a man who had enjoyed the light of God’s countenance; and yet he was in this sad state. Do not utterly condemn yourselves, do not say that you are not the people of God, because you are troubled in heart; but if you really are...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I am troubled; I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long. Yet he was a true child of God all the while, for this is, according to its title, “A Psalm of David,” concerning whom the Lord said “I have found David the son of Jesse, a man after mine own heart, which shall fulfill all my will.” God’s flowers do not have sunlight...