For in thee, O LORD, do I hope: thou wilt hear, O Lord my God.
Ver. 15. For in thee, O Lord, do I hope] This was the ground of his patience, and differenced it from that of heathens, which was rather pertinace than patience, and came not from a right principle.
Thou wilt hear] Or answer; and, therefore, what need is there of my answer?
Verse Psalms 38:15. _IN THEE, O LORD, DO I HOPE_] I have no helper but thee. _THOU WILT HEAR, O LORD MY GOD._] Thou art eternal in thy compassions, and wilt hear the prayer of a penitent soul. In th...
FOR IN THEE, O LORD, DO I HOPE - This shows the reason or ground of his patience. He committed his whole cause to God. He believed that God would take care of his reputation, and that he would vindica...
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...
HEAR. answer. GOD. Hebrew. _Elohim._ App-4....
The motive of silence and resignation. _in thee … do I hope_ Or, _for thee do I wait_. Patience and hope are inseparable. Cp. Psalms 39:7; Micah 7:7. _thou wilt hear_ Thou, thou wilt answer. The pron...
Fresh pleadings with God....
FOR IN THEE, O LORD, &C.— _For I wait for thee, O Lord; thou shalt answer, O Lord my God:_ Psalms 38:16. _For I thought with myself, lest they triumph over me: when my foot slippeth,_ &c. David seems...
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 IN THEE, O LORD, DO I HOPE: THOU WILT HEAR, O LORD MY GOD._ For in thee, O Lord do I hope - the ground of his patience. THOU WILT HEAR, O LORD MY GOD - `thou wilt answer;' I must therefore not...
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...
His silence before men is explained by his hope in God....
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...
THOU WILT HEAR. — _Thou_ is emphatic....
_[Psalms 38:16]_ כִּֽי ־לְךָ֣ יְהוָ֣ה הֹוחָ֑לְתִּי אַתָּ֥ה...
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...
It is blessed, and it is precious to see Christ thus rolling himself, if I may so say, upon God the Father in his trials, because it comes in as a confirmation of all the covenant-engagements concerni...
Psalms 38 _ Proper Psalm for Ash Wednesday_ (_Morning_). PSALMS 38-40 = _ Day 8_ (_Morning_)....
15_For on thee, O Jehovah! do I wait. _David here shows the source of his patience. It consisted in this, that, trusting in the grace of God, he overcame all the temptations of the world. And certainl...
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 IN THEE, O LORD, DO I HOPE,.... That he would plead his cause against his accusers and revilers, and who sought his hurt; that he should be delivered out of their hands, and out of all his afflict...
_In whose mouth are no reproofs_ Or arguments, to convince or confute them, or to defend myself. _For in thee do I hope_ I bore their behaviour silently and patiently, because I hoped that thou woulde...
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...
For in Thee, O Lord, do I hope, as the only one to whom he could safely turn in his great trouble; THOU WILT HEAR, an emphatic, trustful expectation, O LORD, MY GOD....
IN THEE: Or, thee do I wait for HEAR: Or, answer...
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...
I bore their carriage silently and patiently, because I hoped and knew that thou wouldst answer for me, and plead my cause better than myself; which I would not prevent by my impatience, and avenging...
Psalms 38:15 LORD H3068 hope H3176 (H8689) hear H6030 (H8799) Lord H136 God H430 in thee - etc. or, thee do I wait for do -...
‘But I, as a deaf man, hear not, And I am as a dumb man who opens not his mouth. Yes, I am as a man who hears not, And in whose mouth are no reproofs. For in you, O YHWH, do I hope, You will answ...
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,...
_For in Thee, O Lord, do I hope._ HOPE’S LEVER You have heard, no doubt, of the great Grecian mechanician who once said, “If I had a lever long and strong enough, and a fulcrum on which to rest it, I...
_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...
Psalms 123:1; Psalms 39:7; Psalms 138:3...