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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...
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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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STRENGTH. Strength to endure. vital strength. Hebrew. _koh._...
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The neglect of friends and the scorn of enemies augment his
sufferings....
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_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;...
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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 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,...
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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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PANTETH. — Better, _palpitates._ The Hebrew word, like _palpitate,_
expresses the beating of the heart, by its sound, _secharchar.
_...
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_[Psalms 38:11]_ לִבִּ֣י סְ֭חַרְחַר
עֲזָבַ֣נִי כֹחִ֑י וְֽ...
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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 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....
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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...
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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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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...
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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 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...
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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...
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_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...
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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...
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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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IS GONE FROM ME:
_ Heb._ is not with me...
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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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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...
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Psalms 38:10 heart H3820 pants H5503 (H8773) strength H3581 fails
H5800 (H8804) light H216 eyes H5869 it...
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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...
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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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_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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PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 38:9 The singer’s FRIENDS AND COMPANIONS
STAND ALOOF (v. Psalms 38:11), thus adding loneliness to helplessness
(vv....
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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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1 Samuel 14:27; Isaiah 21:4; Lamentations 2:11; Lamentations 5:16;...