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Psalms 38:12

They also that seek after my life lay snares for me: and they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and imagine deceits all the day long.

They also that seek after my life lay snares for me. Malice in deed.

And they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things. Malice in word.

And imagine deceits all the day long. Malice in thought.

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See also Psalms 38:12 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Psalms 38:12. _THEY ALSO THAT SEEK AFTER MY LIFE_] They act towards me as _huntsmen_ after their prey; _they lay snares to take away my_ _life_. Perhaps this means only that they _wished_ for h...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    THEY ALSO THAT SEEK AFTER MY LIFE - This was a new aggravation of his affliction, that those who were his enemies now sought to accomplish their purposes against him with better hopes of success, by t...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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 ...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    LIFE. soul. Hebrew. _nephesh._ App-9. LAY SNARES. Some commentators make two lines in this verse; but the Hebrew accents make three: the first. the _act_, the second. the _speech,_ the third. the _mo...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Pitiless enemies beset him. Comp. Psalms 35:4; Psalms 35:26. _mischievous things_ Lit. _destructions_. See note on Psalms 5:9. _imagine_ Lit. _meditate_. Contrast...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The neglect of friends and the scorn of enemies augment his sufferings....

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    LAY SNARES FOR ME— _Use violence against me._...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    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...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    38:12 meditate (i-22) Or 'talk.'...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    _[Psalms 38:13]_ וַ יְנַקְשׁ֤וּ ׀ מְבַקְשֵׁ֬י נַפְשִׁ֗י וְ...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    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...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    Spider. St. Jerome, "moth." Symmachus, "thou dissolvest like corruption his desirable thing;" (Haydock) which means the soul, (Berthier) or "beauty." (Protestants) Remorse of conscience and God's judg...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    Here again look at the gospel. Mark 14:12; Luke 22:3....

  • James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

    Psalms 38 _ Proper Psalm for Ash Wednesday_ (_Morning_). PSALMS 38-40 = _ Day 8_ (_Morning_)....

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    12_They also that sought for my life have laid snares for me, etc_. . Here another circumstance is added, that the enemies of David laid snares for him, and talked about his destruction, and framed de...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    THEY ALSO THAT SEEK AFTER MY LIFE,.... His avowed and implacable enemies, whom nothing would satisfy but the taking away of his life: these came too near him; for these, he says, LAY SNARES [FOR ME],...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    They also that seek after my life lay snares [for me]: and they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and imagine deceits all the day long. Ver. 12. _They also that seek after my life_] That se...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _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...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    They also that seek after my life lay snares for me, taking this opportunity when he is in trouble to show their spite; AND THEY THAT SEEK MY HURT SPEAK MISCHIEVOUS THINGS, planning his destruction, A...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    12-22 Wicked men hate goodness, even when they benefit by it. David, in the complaints he makes of his enemies, seems to refer to Christ. But our enemies do us real mischief only when they drive us f...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    LAY SNARES FOR ME; that if my disease do not kill me, they may destroy me some other way. IMAGINE DECEITS; they design mischief, but cover it with fair pretences....

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Psalms 38:12 seek H1245 (H8764) life H5315 snares H5367 (H8762) seek H1875 (H8802) hurt H7451 speak...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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,...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _They also that seek after my life lay snares for me._ WHEN FRIENDS ARE SLOW IN HELPING, FOES ARE MOST BUSY Our friends should blush, that the wicked are more instant against us, than they are to ma...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _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...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    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...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 38:9 The singer’s FRIENDS AND COMPANIONS STAND ALOOF (v. Psalms 38:11), thus adding loneliness to helplessness (vv....

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    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,...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    2 Samuel 16:7; 2 Samuel 16:8; 2 Samuel 17:1; Luke 20:19; Luke 20:20;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Deceit — They design mischief, but cover it with fair pretences....

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