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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...
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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...
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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 ...
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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...
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The chastisement of sin....
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_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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_[Psalms 38:6]_ הִבְאִ֣ישׁוּ נָ֭מַקּוּ
חַבּוּרֹתָ֑י מִ֝ פְּנֵ֗י...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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....
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_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...
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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...
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Psalms 38
_ Proper Psalm for Ash Wednesday_ (_Morning_).
PSALMS 38-40 = _ Day 8_ (_Morning_)....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Psalms 38:5 wounds H2250 foul H887 (H8689) festering H4743 (H8738)
Because H6440 foolishness H200
My wounds -...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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_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...
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_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...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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Isaiah 1:5; Isaiah 1:6; Jeremiah 8:22; Psalms 32:3; Psalms 38:7...
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Foolishness — Sin....