Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge, by R.A. Torrey, [ca. 1880], at sacred-texts.com
Psalms Chapter 38
Overview
Psa 38:1, David moves God to take compassion on his pitiful case.
(Title), This deeply penitential Psalm is supposed to have been composed by David under some grievous affliction, either bodily or mental, or both, after his illicit intercourse with Bathsheba.
to bring: Psa 70:1 *title
rebuke: Psa 6:1, Psa 88:7, Psa 88:15, Psa 88:16; Isa 27:8, Isa 54:8; Jer 10:24, Jer 30:11; Hab 3:2; Heb 12:5-11
hot: Deu 9:19
thine: Psa 21:12, Psa 64:7; Job 6:4; Lam 3:12
thy hand: Psa 32:4, Psa 39:10, Psa 39:11; Deu 2:15; Rut 1:13; Sa1 5:6, Sa1 5:11, Sa1 6:9
soundness: Psa 31:9; Ch2 26:19; Job 2:7, Job 2:8, Job 33:19-22; Isa 1:5, Isa 1:6
neither: Psa 6:2, Psa 51:8, Psa 102:3, Psa 102:5
rest: Heb. peace, or, health
because: Psa 51:8, Psa 90:7, Psa 90:8; Lam 3:40-42
as an: Lev 7:18; Isa 53:11; Lam 1:14; Mat 11:28; Pe1 2:24
My wounds: The soul being invisible, its distempers are also so; therefore the sacred writers describe them by the distempers of the body. (See the parallel texts on these verses.) On reading these and similar passages, say Bp. Lowth, some, who were but little acquainted with the genius of Hebrew poetry, have pretended to enquire into the nature of the disease with which the poet was afflicted; not less absurdly, in my opinion, than if they had perplexed themselves to discover in what river he was plunged, when he complains that "the deep waters had gone over his soul." Psa 38:7, Psa 32:3; Isa 1:5, Isa 1:6; Jer 8:22
troubled: Heb. wearied
bowed: Psa 35:14, Psa 42:5 *marg. Psa 57:6, Psa 145:14
mourning: Psa 6:6, Psa 31:10, Psa 42:9, Psa 43:2, Psa 88:9; Job 30:28; Isa 38:14
my loins: Psa 41:8; Ch2 21:18, Ch2 21:19; Job 7:5, Job 30:18; Act 12:23
no: Psa 38:3
roared: Psa 22:1, Psa 22:2, Psa 32:3; Job 3:24, Job 30:28; Isa 59:11
Lord: Instead of adonay, "Lord," several manuscripts read yehowah, "Jehovah."
groaning: Psa 102:5, Psa 102:20; Joh 1:48; Rom 8:22, Rom 8:23, Rom 8:26, Rom 8:27; Co2 5:2
heart: Psa 42:1, Psa 119:81-83, Psa 143:4-7; Isa 21:4
the light: Psa 6:7, Psa 69:3, Psa 88:9, Psa 119:123; Sa1 14:27-29; Lam 2:11, Lam 5:16, Lam 5:17
gone from: Heb. not with
lovers: Psa 31:11; Job 6:21-23, Job 19:13-17; Mat 26:56; Joh 16:32
sore: Heb. stroke
kinsmen: or, neighbours
afar off: Luk 22:54, Luk 23:49
lay snares: Psa 10:9, Psa 64:2-5, Psa 119:110, Psa 140:5, Psa 141:9; Sa2 17:1-3; Luk 20:19, Luk 20:20
speak: Psa 35:20, Psa 62:3, Psa 62:4; Sa2 16:7, Sa2 16:8; Luk 20:21, Luk 20:22
Psa 39:2, Psa 39:9; Sa2 16:10-12; Isa 53:7; Pe1 2:23
that heareth: Amo 5:13; Mic 7:5; Mar 15:3-5; Joh 8:6
in thee: etc. or, thee do I wait for
do: Psa 39:7, Psa 123:1-3
hear: or, answer, Psa 138:3
Lord: Here also, instead of adonay, one hundred and two manuscripts read yehowah, "Jehovah.
For I said: Psa 13:3, Psa 13:4, Psa 35:24-26
magnify: Psa 35:26
to halt: Heb. for halting, Psa 35:15 *marg. Mic 4:6, Mic 4:7
sorrow: Psa 38:6, Psa 6:6, Psa 77:2, Psa 77:3; Isa 53:3-5
For: Psa 32:5, Psa 51:3; Job 31:33, Job 33:27; Pro 28:13
sorry: Co2 7:7-11
But: Psa 3:1, Psa 25:19, Psa 56:1, Psa 56:2, Psa 59:1-3
are lively: etc. Heb. being living are strong, Instead of chaymin, "lively" Bp. Lowth would read chinmon, "without cause" - "but mine enemies without cause have strengthened themselves." As this emendation renders this member of the sentence parallel to the other, it is by no means improbable. See note on Psa 35:19; Psa 79:5.
they that: Psa 35:19, Psa 69:4; Mat 10:22; Joh 15:18-25; Act 4:25-28
render: Psa 7:4, Psa 35:12, Psa 109:3-5; Sa1 19:4-6, Sa1 23:5, Sa1 23:12, Sa1 25:16, Sa1 25:21; Jer 18:20
because: Mat 5:10; Joh 10:32; Pe1 3:13, Pe1 3:17, Pe1 3:18, Pe1 4:14-16; Jo1 3:12
O my God: Psa 22:1, Psa 22:11, Psa 22:19, Psa 22:24, Psa 35:21, Psa 35:22
Make: Psa 40:13, Psa 40:17, Psa 70:1, Psa 70:5, Psa 71:12, Psa 141:1
to help me: Heb. for my help