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Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

Psalms 38:2

Verse Psalms 38:2. Thine arrows stick fast in me] This no doubt, refers to the acute pains which he endured; each appearing to his feeling as if an arrow were shot into his body.

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See also Psalms 38:2 in other biblical comments:

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    FOR THINE ARROWS SLICK FAST IN ME - See the notes at Job 6:4. The word rendered “stick fast” - נחת _nâchath_ - means properly to go or come down; to descend; and the literal idea here would be, “thin...

  • 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...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    ARROWS... HAND. Figure of speech _Anthropopatheia._ App-6....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The chastisement of sin....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    God's -arrows" are His judgements in general (Psalms 7:12: Deuteronomy 32:23); here in particular pain and sickness (Job 6:4; Job 16:12-13;...

  • 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...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    FOR THINE ARROWS, &C.— _For thine arrows are entered deep into me, and thy hand is come down upon me._ Mudge....

  • 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

    _FOR THINE ARROWS STICK FAST IN ME, AND THY HAND PRESSETH ME SORE._ The plea of His prayer; he is now arrived at such a crisis of anguish, and restlessness of body and mind, that God cannot but inter...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    38:2 me, (c-7) Lit. 'have descended into me.'...

  • 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...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    ARROWS] represent God's judgments as sent from afar, while His hand suggests closer dealing....

  • 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

    FOR THINE ARROWS... — The same figure is used of the disease from which Job suffered (elephantiasis? Job 6:4); of famine (Ezekiel 5:16); and generally of divine judgments (Deuteronomy 32:23). By itsel...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    _[Psalms 38:3]_ כִּֽי ־חִ֭צֶּיךָ נִ֣חֲתוּ בִ֑י וַ...

  • 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...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    For thine (c) arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand presseth me sore. (c) Your sickness, with which you have visited me....

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    Tongue. The matter is very delicate and important, James iii. 2., Proverbs xviii. 21., Isaias xxxii. 17., and Ecclesiasticus xxii. 33., and xxviii. 28. --- Me, and was treating me with injustice and c...

  • 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

    Psalms 38 _ Proper Psalm for Ash Wednesday_ (_Morning_). PSALMS 38-40 = _ Day 8_ (_Morning_)....

  • James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

    _IN A SORE PLIGHT_ ‘Thy hand presseth me sore.’ Psalms 38:2 This psalm, says the inscription, was intended to bring to remembrance—Was it God that seemed to have forgotten? The Psalmist was evident...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    2._For thy arrows go down in me. _He shows that he was constrained by dire necessity to ask an alleviation of his misery; for he was crushed under the weight of the burden which he sustained. This rul...

  • 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

    FOR THINE ARROWS STICK FAST IN ME,.... Meaning either words with which as a father the Lord rebuked him; and which were sharp and cutting, entered into him and abode with him, and gave him much pain a...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    For thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand presseth me sore. Ver. 2. _For thine arrows stick fast in me_] _i.e._ Sicknesses of body and troubles of mind, Job 6:4 Psalms 18:14. The Jewish doctors...

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

    _Neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure_ I confess that I both deserve chastisement and need it, and therefore I do not desire that thou shouldest entirely remove it, but only moderate it: see Psal...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    For Thine arrows stick fast in me, the arrows of God's anger having sunk into his flesh, AND THY HAND PRESSETH ME SORE, in the misfortune or in the dread which was oppressing him....

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    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...

  • 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

    THINE ARROWS, i.e. thy judgments inflicted upon my outward and inward man, oft compared to arrows, as DEUTERONOMY 32:23 PSALMS 7:13, PSALMS 45:5 91:5. PRESSETH ME SORE; or, _comes down upon me_; as wh...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Psalms 38:2 arrows H2671 deeply H5181 (H8738) hand H3027 down H5181 (H8799) thine - Psalms 21:

  • 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

    _For Thine arrows stick fast in me, and Thy hand presseth me sore._ GOD’S ARROWS Those arrows commonly are either wicked men or devils, whom God sendeth forth to afflict His own children, sharp as ar...

  • 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 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 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

    1 Samuel 5:11; 1 Samuel 5:6; 1 Samuel 6:9; Deuteronomy 2:15; Job 6:4;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Arrows — Thy judgments outward and inward....

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