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George Haydock's Catholic Commentary

Psalms 38:4

Out. This alludes to his sorrow for his sins, (Origen) or to the fire of charity, which is enkindled by meditation on the last end, &c., (ver. 5.) or rather it means, that while he repressed his tongue, he could not but feel an inward zeal and indignation, (Calmet) in consequence of grief suppressed. (Worthington) --- See Jeremias xx. 9. (Menochius)

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See also Psalms 38:4 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Psalms 38:4. _MINE INIQUITIES ARE GONE OVER MINE HEAD_] He represents himself as one sinking in _deep waters_, or as one oppressed by a _burden_ to which his strength was unequal....

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    FOR MINE INIQUITIES ARE GONE OVER MINE HEAD - This is merely an enlargement of the idea suggested in the last verse - that his present sickness was to be traced to his sin, and that he was suffering 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

    INIQUITIES. Hebrew. _'aven._ App-44. OVER MINE HEAD. The reference is to the burdens of porters and carriers, which often mount up and project over the head....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The chastisement of sin....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    His sins are like a flood which overwhelms (Psalms 124:4-5); like a burden which crushes (Genesis 4:13; Isaiah 53:4; Job 7:20)....

  • Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

    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...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    FOR MINE INIQUITIES— i.e. The punishment of them; as Psalms 31:10; Psalms 32:5.—_Are gone over my head,_ is an allusion to the boisterous waves of the sea; under which a man who is shipwrecked is just...

  • 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...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _FOR MINE INIQUITIES ARE GONE OVER MINE HEAD: AS AN HEAVY BURDEN THEY ARE TOO HEAVY FOR ME._ For mine iniquities are gone over mine head - like waves over a drowning man (Psalms 42:7; Psalms 124:4; c...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    38:4 over (e-6) i.e. as waters....

  • 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...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    Sin is compared first to a flood, and then to a burden....

  • 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...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    ARE GONE OVER MINE HEAD. — Like waves or a flood. (Comp. Psalms 18:15; Psalms 69:2; Psalms 69:15. Comp. “A sea of troubles.” — _Hamlet,_ Acts 3, scene 1)

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    _[Psalms 38:5]_ כִּ֣י עֲ֭וֹנֹתַי עָבְר֣וּ רֹאשִׁ֑י כְּ...

  • 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...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    For mine (e) iniquities are gone over mine head: as an heavy burden they are too heavy for me. (e) He confesses his sins, God's justice, and makes prayer his refuge....

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    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...

  • 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

    4._For my iniquities have passed over my head. _Here he complains that he is overwhelmed by his sins as by a heavy burden, so that he utterly faints under their weight; and yet he again confirms the d...

  • 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

    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 o...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    For mine iniquities are gone over mine head: as an heavy burden they are too heavy for me. Ver. 4. _For mine iniquities are gone over my head_] So that I am even overwhelmed by them, and almost drown...

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

    _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...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    For mine iniquities are gone over mine head, passing over him like an overwhelming flood; AS AN HEAVY BURDEN THEY ARE TOO HEAVY FOR ME, the burden bearing down upon his conscience exceeding his streng...

  • 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

    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...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    MINE INIQUITIES; or, _the punishment of mine iniquities_, as this word is frequently used; which best agrees both with the foregoing and following verses, and with the metaphor here used; which in oth...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Psalms 38:4 iniquities H5771 over H5674 (H8804) head H7218 heavy H3515 burden H4853 heavy H3513 (H8799)...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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

    _Mine iniquities are gone over my head._ SINS COMPARED TO DEEPENING WATERS He compareth his sins to waters which, albeit, at the first entrance they seem so shallow, that scarce they touch our ankles...

  • 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 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

    1 Peter 2:24; Ezra 9:6; Isaiah 53:11; Lamentations 1:14; Leviticus 7:18

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Iniquities — Or, the punishment of mine iniquities, as this word is frequently used. Are gone — Like deep waters wherewith I am overwhelmed....

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