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Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary

Psalms 38:10

Panteth; or, goes round; wanders hither and thither, as the word signifies; is perplexed and tossed with many and various thoughts, not knowing what to do, nor whither to go. Mine eyes are grown dim; either through grief and tears, as @Psalms 6:7; or through weakness, as 1 Samuel 14:28,29.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Psalms 38:10. _MY HEART PANTETH_] סחרחר _secharchar, flutters,_ _palpitates_, through fear and alarm. _MY STRENGTH FAILETH_] Not being able to take nourishment. _THE LIGHT OF MINE EYES - IS GO...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    MY HEART PANTETH - The word rendered “panteth,” in its original form, means properly to go about; to travel around; and then, to travel around as a merchant or pedlar, or for purposes of traffic: Gene...

  • 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

    STRENGTH. Strength to endure. vital strength. Hebrew. _koh._...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

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

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _panteth_ R.V. excellently, throbbeth. _as for the light of mine eyes_&c. His eyes are dim and dull with weakness and weeping. Cp. Psalms 6:7; Psalms 13:3, note; Psalms 31:9;...

  • 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 HEART PANTETH, MY STRENGTH FAILETH ME: AS FOR THE LIGHT OF MINE EYES, IT ALSO IS GONE FROM ME._ My heart panteth - palpitates. AS FOR THE LIGHT OF MINE EYES, IT ALSO IS GONE FROM ME - literally,...

  • 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

    PANTETH. — Better, _palpitates._ The Hebrew word, like _palpitate,_ expresses the beating of the heart, by its sound, _secharchar. _...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    _[Psalms 38:11]_ לִבִּ֣י סְ֭חַרְחַר עֲזָבַ֣נִי כֹחִ֑י וְֽ...

  • 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 heart panteth, my strength faileth me: as for the light of mine eyes, (h) it also is gone from me. (h) My sight fails me for sorrow....

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    It. St. Augustine reads "me," conformably to some copies of the Septuagint, Arabic, &c. (Calmet) --- He is at a loss to explain the reason of the prophet, and suggests that this perhaps ought to be re...

  • 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

    10_My heart hath turned round _The verb which David here uses signifies _to travel _or _wander hither and thither; _but here it is taken for the agitation or disquietude which distress of heart engend...

  • 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 HEART PANTETH,.... Or "goes about" m; runs here and there, and finds no rest; as Aben Ezra interprets the word from the Targum he cites; though the Targum we have renders it, "my heart shakes with...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    My heart panteth, my strength faileth me: as for the light of mine eyes, it also is gone from me. Ver. 10. _My heart panteth_] Heb. runneth about, or is tossed to and fro, _circuivit cor meum, inordi...

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

    _I have roared_ Hebrew, שׁאגתי, _sha-agti, roared like a lion_, or a bear, namely, through extreme misery; _by reason of the disquietness of my heart_ For the great anxiety and torment of my mind, cau...

  • 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...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    My heart panteth, palpitating from violent agitation, as if barely surviving the trouble, MY STRENGTH FAILETH ME; AS FOR THE LIGHT OF MINE EYES, the strength of his vision, IT ALSO IS GONE FROM ME, th...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    IS GONE FROM ME: _ Heb._ is not with me...

  • 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...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Psalms 38:10 heart H3820 pants H5503 (H8773) strength H3581 fails H5800 (H8804) light H216 eyes H5869 it...

  • 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

    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 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

    1 Samuel 14:27; Isaiah 21:4; Lamentations 2:11; Lamentations 5:16;...

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