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Psalms 38:5

My wounds, the bruises which he, figuratively, bore by reason of his sins, stink and are corrupt, not only having an evil odor, but also running like an open, festering sore, because of my foolishness, this designation being chosen since all sin is folly and self-destruction.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Psalms 38:5. _MY WOUNDS STINK_ AND _ARE CORRUPT_] Taking this in connection with the rest of the Psalm, I do not see that we can understand the word in any _figurative_ or _metaphorical_ way. I...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    MY WOUNDS STINK - The word rendered “wounds” here means properly the swelling or wales produced by stripes. See the notes at Isaiah 1:6; notes at Isaiah 53:5. The meaning here is, that he was under ch...

  • 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...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The chastisement of sin....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _My wounds_ Or _stripes_(_bruises_, Isaiah 1:6, A.V.): for he has been as it were scourged by God. _my foolishness_ Sin is essentially foolishness. Cp. Psalms 107:17. The word occurs only once again i...

  • 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

    BECAUSE OF MY FOOLISHNESS— i.e. "As a just punishment of my folly; whereby, to satisfy my unreasonable desires, I have inconsiderately offended thee." See 2 Samuel 11:2. David in the next verse repres...

  • 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

    _MY WOUNDS STINK AND ARE CORRUPT BECAUSE OF MY FOOLISHNESS._ My wounds ... are corrupt (_ NAAMAQUW_ (H4743)) - literally, melt away. BECAUSE OF MY FOOLISHNESS - perverse sin. The sinner is a fool, a...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    38:5 corrupt, (f-6) Or 'they run.'...

  • 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...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    WOUNDS. — Better, _stripes,_ as in LXX. STINK AND ARE CORRUPT. — Both words denote suppuration; the first in reference to the offensive smell, the second of the discharge of matter; the whole passage...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    _[Psalms 38:6]_ הִבְאִ֣ישׁוּ נָ֭מַקּוּ חַבּוּרֹתָ֑י מִ֝ פְּנֵ֗י...

  • 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

    My wounds stink [and] are corrupt because of (f) my foolishness. (f) That rather gave place to my own lusts, than to the will of God....

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _End, as I desire to die, like Elias, 3 Kings xix. (Worthington) --- The just have frequently expressed such sentiments, to move God to pity, (Job vii. 1., and Psalm ci. 4.) though they wished to live...

  • 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

    5_My wounds _(50) _have become putrid _In this verse, he pleads the long continuance of his disease as an argument for obtaining some alleviation. When the Lord declares, concerning his Church, “that...

  • 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

    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 sa...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    My wounds stink [and] are corrupt because of my foolishness. Ver. 5. _My wounds stink and are corrupt_] What his grief or disease was we read not; some say the leprosy; some take all this allegorical...

  • 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...

  • 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

    The bruises and sores caused by my disease are not only painful, but loathsome to myself and to others. FOOLISHNSS, i.e. sin, which really is, and is commonly called, _folly_, as Psalms 69:5 Proverbs...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Psalms 38:5 wounds H2250 foul H887 (H8689) festering H4743 (H8738) Because H6440 foolishness H200 My wounds -...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    My wounds are loathsome and corrupt, Because of my foolishness. I am pained and bowed down greatly, I go mourning all the day long. For my loins are filled with burning, And there is no soundness...

  • 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

    _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 Biblical Illustrator

    _My wounds stink and are corrupt because of my foolishness._ SUFFERING FOR SIN I. David’s unhappy situation. 1. The pain and anguish he felt on account of sin (Job 20:12; Psalms 88:15). 2. Shame an...

  • 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

    Isaiah 1:5; Isaiah 1:6; Jeremiah 8:22; Psalms 32:3; Psalms 38:7...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Foolishness — Sin....

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