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Verse Psalms 38:21. _FORSAKE ME NOT, O LORD_] Though all have forsaken
me, do not thou.
_BE NOT FAR FROM ME_] Though my friends keep aloof, be thou near to
help me....
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FORSAKE ME NOT, O LORD - That is, Do not leave me in my troubles, my
sickness, my sorrow. Leave me not to die; leave me not to complain and
dishonor thee; leave me not to the reproaches of my enemies....
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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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Fresh pleadings with God....
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Concluding prayer....
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Cp. Psalms 22:1; Psalms 10:1.
"The light has not yet dawned upon the darkness of God's wrath. _Fides
supplex_is not yet transformed into _fides triumphans_. But the
difference between Cain's repentanc...
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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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_FORSAKE ME NOT, O LORD: O MY GOD, BE NOT FAR FROM ME._
O my God, be not far from me. Make haste to help me, O Lord, my
salvation. The same voice as in Psalms 22:19. Compare also Psalms
35:3....
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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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_[Psalms 38:22]_ אַל ־תַּֽעַזְבֵ֥נִי יְהוָ֑ה
אֱ֝לֹהַ֗י אַל...
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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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I need not enlarge on these verses, they all express the same blessed
truths, and bear a gracious correspondence to the whole tenor of this
Psalm. Jehovah is the salvation of his people, and Christ is...
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Psalms 38
_ Proper Psalm for Ash Wednesday_ (_Morning_).
PSALMS 38-40 = _ Day 8_ (_Morning_)....
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In these concluding verses, David briefly states the chief point which
he desired, and the sum of his whole prayer; namely, that whereas he
was forsaken of men, and grievously afflicted in every way,...
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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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FORSAKE ME NOT, O LORD,.... Or continue not to forsake; for he seems
to have been under divine desertion, and might be under apprehensions
that God had utterly forsaken him; which he entreats he would...
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Forsake me not, O LORD: O my God, be not far from me.
Ver. 21. _Forsake me not, O Lord_] This was that he most of all
feared, spiritual desertion. So Jeremiah, Be not thou a terror unto
me, O God; an...
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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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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...
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No text from Poole on this verse....
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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...
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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 38:15 The singer shows true faith in confessing
his sin (v. Psalms 38:18) and in calling the Lord his SALVATION (v....
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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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Psalms 22:1; Psalms 22:11; Psalms 22:19; Psalms 22:24; Psalms 35:21;...