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Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

Psalms 38:9

Lord, all my desire is before thee - That is, Thou knowest all that I would ask or that I need. This is the expression of one who felt that his only hope was in God, and that He fully understood the case. There was no need of repeating the request. He was willing to leave the whole case with God.

And my groaning is not hid from thee - My sighing; the expression of my sorrow and anguish. As God certainly heard these sighs, and as He wholly understood the case, David hoped that He would mercifully interpose in his behalf.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Psalms 38:9. _LORD, ALL MY DESIRE_ IS _BEFORE THEE_] I long for nothing so much as thy favour; and for this my heart is continually going out after thee. Instead of אדני _Adonai, Lord_, several...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

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  • 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

    LORD *. Primitive text was Jehovah. One of the 134 emendations of the _Sopherim._ App-32....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    God knows what he needs (Psalms 10:17; Matthew 6:8)....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

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

  • 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...

  • 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

    _LORD, ALL MY DESIRE IS BEFORE THEE; AND MY GROANING IS NOT HID FROM THEE._ Lord, all my desire is before thee; and my groaning is not hid from thee - thine omniscience knows that I do not exaggerate...

  • 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

    ALL MY DESIRE. — Notice the clutch at the thought of divine justice, as the clutch of a drowning man amid that sea of trouble....

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    _[Psalms 38:10]_ אֲֽדֹנָי נֶגְדְּךָ֥ כָל ־תַּאֲוָתִ֑י וְ֝...

  • 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...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Thou hast. Hebrew lo, "do not;" ne, or nonne; or "hast thou not made?" &c., as the following verse intimates. (Berthier) --- Thou hast suffered me to be reproached by the foolish, who prosper in this...

  • 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

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  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

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  • 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

    LORD, ALL MY DESIRE [IS] BEFORE THEE,.... To be delivered from his afflictions, to have a discovery and application of pardoning grace, and to have communion with his God: the desire of his soul was u...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Lord, all my desire [is] before thee; and my groaning is not hid from thee. Ver. 9. _Lord, all my desire is before thee_] Confused desires, broken requests, if from a broken spirit, are upon the file...

  • 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

    Lord, all my desire is before Thee, Jehovah knows the longing which the sufferer feels in the midst of his misery; AND MY GROANING IS NOT HID FROM THEE. David refers to this fact in order to stimulate...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

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  • 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

    I do not utter all these complaints, nor roar out, that thou mayst hear and know them, for thou hearest and knowest even my lowest groans; yea, mine inward desires, and all my necessities. And therefo...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Psalms 38:9 Lord H136 desire H8378 sighing H585 hidden H5641 (H8738) Lord - Instead of adonay, "Lord," several manuscripts read YHWH groaning -...

  • 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...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    Psalms 38:9 I. This passage, strictly and plainly interpreted, represents a fact that is without exception: "Lord, all my desire is before Thee." In a certain sense, every being susceptible of desire...

  • 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

    _Lord, all my desire is before Thee; and my groaning is not hid from Thee._ GOD’S KNOWLEDGE OF OUR DESIRES I. We have here A fact that is without exception. The Lord knows all our desires. How great...

  • 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

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  • 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

    2 Corinthians 5:2; John 1:48; Psalms 102:20; Psalms 102:5; Romans 8:22

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