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Psalms 38:18
For I will declare mine iniquity, openly confessing his guilt; I will be sorry for my sin, filled with anxiety on its account.
For I will declare mine iniquity, openly confessing his guilt; I will be sorry for my sin, filled with anxiety on its account.
Verse Psalms 38:18. _I WILL DECLARE MINE INIQUITY_] I will confess it with the deepest humiliation and self-abasement....
FOR I WILL DECLARE MINE INIQUITY - That is, he was not disposed to hide his sin. He would make no concealment of the fact that he regarded himself as a sinner. He admitted this to be true, and he admi...
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 ...
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...
SIN. Hebrew. _chata'._ App-44....
Fresh pleadings with God....
_For_&c. Sin, he confesses, is the cause of that suffering. _I will be sorry_ Or, _I will be troubled_. Jer. _sollicitus ero:_Psalms 5:1. _contristabor_....
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...
_FOR I WILL DECLARE MINE INIQUITY; I WILL BE SORRY FOR MY SIN._ For I will declare mine iniquity; I will be sorry for my sin. The bitterest drop in his cup of suffering is that he feels his suffering...
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...
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...
SORRY. — The note of true penitence is here. The sorrow is for the _sin_ itself, not for its miserable results....
_[Psalms 38:19]_ כִּֽי ־עֲוֹנִ֥י אַגִּ֑יד אֶ֝דְאַ֗ג מֵֽ...
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...
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...
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...
Let not these words stagger the faith of the believer in considering them as spoken by Christ. As the sinner's Surety, he was truly made sin for his people, so the scripture declares, yea, also a curs...
Psalms 38 _ Proper Psalm for Ash Wednesday_ (_Morning_). PSALMS 38-40 = _ Day 8_ (_Morning_)....
18and 19_Surely I declare my iniquity. _By comparison, he amplifies what he had just said concerning the pride and the reproachful conduct of his enemies; for he says, that whilst he is lying in a fil...
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...
FOR I WILL DECLARE MINE INIQUITY,.... Either to men, to ease his mind, justify God in his proceedings with him, and for their caution and admonition: or rather to God, against whom he had sinned, and...
For I will declare mine iniquity; I will be sorry for my sin. Ver. 18. _For I will declare mine iniquity_] To them that visit me in this disease, saith Aben Ezra, that they may pray for me, according...
_For I am ready to halt_ To fall into destruction, Jeremiah 20:10. And, therefore, if thou dost not help me speedily it will be too late. _My sorrow is continually before me_ I am deeply and constantl...
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...
DECLARE MINE INIQUITY; either to thee; or publicly to the world, because my sin hath been public and scandalous. I WILL BE SORRY, Heb. _I will be_ (or, _I am_; futures being oft so taken) _solicitous_...
Psalms 38:18 declare H5046 (H8686) iniquity H5771 anguish H1672 (H8799) sin H2403 For - Psalms
3). HE CALLS ON YHWH HIS LORD FOR DELIVERANCE FROM HIS ENEMIES IN VIEW OF HIS OWN DEEP REPENTANCE AND HIS CONFIDENCE IN THE TRUE FAITHFULNESS TO HIM OF YHWH, HIS GOD AND LORD (PSALMS 38:15). As we hav...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
_I will declare mine iniquity; I will be sorry for my sin._ OF CONFESSION OF SIN I. What confession of sin is. It is a declaration of acknowledgment of some moral evil or fault to another. II. How...
_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...
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...
PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 38:15 The singer shows true faith in confessing his sin (v. Psalms 38:18) and in calling the Lord his SALVATION (v....
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,...
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...
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...
2 Corinthians 7:7; Job 31:33; Job 33:27; Proverbs 28:13; Psalms 32:5
Declare — To thee....