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Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Psalms 38:6

I am troubled. — Better,

I am made to writhe (see margin),
I am bowed down exceedingly,
All day long I go about squalid.

(See Psalms 35:14, and comp. Isaiah 21:3.) The usual Oriental signs of mourning are alluded to in the last clause.

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See also Psalms 38:6 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Psalms 38:6. _I AM TROUBLED_] In mind. _I am bowed down _- in body. I am altogether afflicted, and full of distress....

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    I AM TROUBLED - Margin, “wearied.” The Hebrew word means to bend, to curve; then, to be distorted, to writhe with pain, convulsions, and spasms. In Isaiah 21:3, the same word is rendered, “I was bowed...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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 ...

  • 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...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The chastisement of sin....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    I am bent, I am bowed down exceedingly, as one whose frame is contracted and drawn together by pain, or whose gestures indicate mental anguish. Cp. Psalms 35:14; Isaiah 21:3. Notice the vigorous archa...

  • 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

    _I AM TROUBLED; I AM BOWED DOWN GREATLY; I GO MOURNING ALL THE DAY LONG._ I am troubled - Hebrew, (_ `AAWAH_ (H5753)), _ NA`ªWEETIY_ (H5753) - literally, 'I am made to writhe;' I am in contortions. I...

  • 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

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  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    _[Psalms 38:7]_ נַעֲוֵ֣יתִי שַׁחֹ֣תִי עַד ־מְאֹ֑ד כָּל...

  • 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

    Measurable. Hebrew, "of a hand's breadth." (Haydock) --- Symmachus, "a spithame, or twelve fingers' breadth," perhaps in allusion to the Greek proverb, a "spithame of life;" which denotes one very sho...

  • 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

    6_I am bent _This description clearly shows that this holy man was oppressed with extreme grief, so much so, that it is marvellous how, under such a vast accumulation of miseries, his faith was suffic...

  • 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

    I AM TROUBLED,.... Discomposed and perplexed in mind; his thoughts were disturbed and irregular, and in the utmost confusion and distress: this trouble was not only on account of the affliction that w...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    I am troubled; I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long. Ver. 6. I am troubled (Heb. wryed;) I am bowed down, &c.] _Incurvus et prorsus obstipus, atroque vultu squallidus, vix corpus t...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _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...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    I am troubled, bent over with the disease of his soul; I AM BOWED DOWN GREATLY, as with a sickness which contracts the body in writhing pains; I GO MOURNING ALL THE DAY LONG, literally, "squalid," bla...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

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  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    TROUBLED: _ Heb._ worried...

  • 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

    TROUBLED, Heb. _distorted_, or _depressed_; or, as it is expressed by another word, signifying the same thing, BOWED DOWN, to wit, in my body, as diseased persons commonly are, and withal dejected in...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Psalms 38:6 troubled H5753 (H8738) down H7817 (H8804) greatly H3966 go H1980 (H8765) mourning H6937 ...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • 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

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  • The Biblical Illustrator

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  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

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  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

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  • The Pulpit Commentaries

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  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

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  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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