Psalm 38 TSK

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, that 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.'

Psalm 38:5 My wounds stink and are corrupt because of my foolishness.

Psalm 32:3 When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long.

Isaiah 1:5,6 Why should you be stricken any more? you will revolt more and more: …

Jeremiah 8:22 Is there no balm in Gilead; is there no physician there? why then …

Psalm 38:6

I am troubled; I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long.

troubled [heb.] wearied
bowed

Psalm 35:14 I behaved myself as though he had been my friend or brother: I bowed …

Psalm 42:5 Why are you cast down, O my soul? and why are you disquieted in me? …

Psalm 57:6 They have prepared a net for my steps; my soul is bowed down: they …

Psalm 145:14 The LORD upholds all that fall, and raises up all those that be bowed down.

mourning

Psalm 6:6 I am weary with my groaning; all the night make I my bed to swim; …

Psalm 31:10 For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing: my strength …

Psalm 42:9 I will say to God my rock, Why have you forgotten me? why go I mourning …

Psalm 43:2 For you are the God of my strength: why do you cast me off? why go …

Psalm 88:9 My eye mourns by reason of affliction: LORD, I have called daily …

Job 30:28 I went mourning without the sun: I stood up, and I cried in the congregation.

Isaiah 38:14 Like a crane or a swallow, so did I chatter: I did mourn as a dove: …

Psalm 38:7

For my loins are filled with a loathsome disease: and there is no soundness in my flesh.

my loins

Psalm 41:8 An evil disease, say they, sticks fast to him: and now that he lies …

2 Chronicles 21:18,19 And after all this the LORD smote him in his bowels with an incurable disease…

Job 7:5 My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin is broken, …

Job 30:18 By the great force of my disease is my garment changed: it binds …

Isaiah 38:14 Like a crane or a swallow, so did I chatter: I did mourn as a dove: …

Psalm 38:8

I am feeble and sore broken: I have roared by reason of the disquietness of my heart.

roared

Psalm 22:1,2 My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? why are you so far from …

Psalm 32:3 When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long.

Job 3:24 For my sighing comes before I eat, and my roarings are poured out …

Job 30:28 I went mourning without the sun: I stood up, and I cried in the congregation.

Isaiah 59:11 We roar all like bears, and mourn sore like doves: we look for judgment, …

Psalm 38:9

Lord, all my desire is before thee; and my groaning is not hid from thee.

Lord, instead of [adonay, `Lord'] several MSS read [yehowah,] Jehovah

groaning

Psalm 102:5,20 By reason of the voice of my groaning my bones stick to my skin…

John 1:48 Nathanael said to him, From where know you me? Jesus answered and …

Romans 8:22,23,26,27 For we know that the whole creation groans and travails in pain together …

2 Corinthians 5:2 For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed on with our …

Psalm 38:10

My heart panteth, my strength faileth me: as for the light of mine eyes, it also is gone from me.

heart

Psalm 42:1 As the hart pants after the water brooks, so pants my soul after you, O God.

Psalm 119:81-83 My soul faints for your salvation: but I hope in your word…

Psalm 143:4-7 Therefore is my spirit overwhelmed within me; my heart within me is desolate…

Isaiah 21:4 My heart panted, fearfulness affrighted me: the night of my pleasure …

the light

Psalm 6:7 My eye is consumed because of grief; it waxes old because of all my enemies.

Psalm 69:3 I am weary of my crying: my throat is dried: my eyes fail while I …

Psalm 88:9 My eye mourns by reason of affliction: LORD, I have called daily …

Psalm 119:123 My eyes fail for your salvation, and for the word of your righteousness.

1 Samuel 14:27-29 But Jonathan heard not when his father charged the people with the …

Lamentations 2:11 My eyes do fail with tears, my bowels are troubled, my liver is poured …

Lamentations 5:16,17 The crown is fallen from our head: woe to us, that we have sinned!…

gone from [heb.] not with

Psalm 38:11

My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my sore; and my kinsmen stand afar off.

lovers

Psalm 31:11 I was a reproach among all my enemies, but especially among my neighbors, …

Job 6:21-23 For now you are nothing; you see my casting down, and are afraid…

Job 19:13-17 He has put my brothers far from me, and my acquaintance are truly …

Matthew 26:56 But all this was done, that the scriptures of the prophets might …

John 16:32 Behold, the hour comes, yes, is now come, that you shall be scattered, …

stand

Luke 10:31,32 And by chance there came down a certain priest that way: and when …

sore [heb.] stroke
Kinsmen. or, neighbours
afar off

Luke 22:54 Then took they him, and led him, and brought him into the high priest's …

Luke 23:49 And all his acquaintance, and the women that followed him from Galilee, …

Psalm 38:12

They also that seek after my life lay snares for me: and they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and imagine deceits all the day long.

lay snares

Psalm 10:9 He lies in wait secretly as a lion in his den: he lies in wait to …

Psalm 64:2-5 Hide me from the secret counsel of the wicked; from the insurrection …

Psalm 119:110 The wicked have laid a snare for me: yet I erred not from your precepts.

Psalm 140:5 The proud have hid a snare for me, and cords; they have spread a …

Psalm 141:9 Keep me from the snares which they have laid for me, and the gins …

2 Samuel 17:1-3 Moreover Ahithophel said to Absalom, Let me now choose out twelve …

Luke 20:19,20 And the chief priests and the scribes the same hour sought to lay …

speak

Psalm 35:20 For they speak not peace: but they devise deceitful matters against …

Psalm 62:3,4 How long will you imagine mischief against a man? you shall be slain …

2 Samuel 16:7,8 And thus said Shimei when he cursed, Come out, come out, you bloody …

Luke 20:21,22 And they asked him, saying, Master, we know that you say and teach …

Psalm 38:13

But I, as a deaf man, heard not; and I was as a dumb man that openeth not his mouth.

Psalm 39:2,9 I was dumb with silence, I held my peace, even from good; and my …

2 Samuel 16:10-12 And the king said, What have I to do with you, you sons of Zeruiah? …

Isaiah 53:7 He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: …

1 Peter 2:23 Who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he suffered, he …

Psalm 38:14

Thus I was as a man that heareth not, and in whose mouth are no reproofs.

that heareth

Amos 5:13 Therefore the prudent shall keep silence in that time; for it is an evil time.

Micah 7:5 Trust you not in a friend, put you not confidence in a guide: keep …

Mark 15:3-5 And the chief priests accused him of many things: but he answered nothing…

John 8:6 This they said, tempting him, that they might have to accuse him. …

Psalm 38:15

For in thee, O LORD, do I hope: thou wilt hear, O Lord my God.

In thee. or, thee do I wait for
do

Psalm 39:7 And now, Lord, what wait I for? my hope is in you.

Psalm 123:1-3 To you lift I up my eyes, O you that dwell in the heavens…

hear. or, answer

Psalm 138:3 In the day when I cried you answered me, and strengthened me with …

Lord. Here also, instead of [adonay], one hundred and two MSS read [yehowah,] Jehovah

Psalm 38:16

For I said, Hear me, lest otherwise they should rejoice over me: when my foot slippeth, they magnify themselves against me.

For I said

Psalm 13:3,4 Consider and hear me, O LORD my God: lighten my eyes, lest I sleep …

Psalm 35:24-26 Judge me, O LORD my God, according to your righteousness; and let …

foot

Psalm 94:18 When I said, My foot slips; your mercy, O LORD, held me up.

Deuteronomy 32:35 To me belongs vengeance and recompense; their foot shall slide in …

magnify

Psalm 35:26 Let them be ashamed and brought to confusion together that rejoice at my hurt…

Psalm 38:17

For I am ready to halt, and my sorrow is continually before me.

to halt [heb.] for halting

Psalm 35:15 But in my adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together: …

Micah 4:6,7 In that day, said the LORD, will I assemble her that halts, and I …

sorrow

Psalm 38:6 I am troubled; I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long.

Psalm 6:6 I am weary with my groaning; all the night make I my bed to swim; …

Psalm 77:2 In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord: my sore ran in the night, …

Isaiah 53:3-5 He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted …

Psalm 38:18

For I will declare mine iniquity; I will be sorry for my sin.

For

Psalm 32:5 I acknowledge my sin to you, and my iniquity have I not hid. I said, …

Psalm 51:3 For I acknowledge my transgressions: and my sin is ever before me.

Job 31:33 If I covered my transgressions as Adam, by hiding my iniquity in my bosom:

Proverbs 28:13 He that covers his sins shall not prosper: but whoever confesses …

sorry

2 Corinthians 7:7-11 And not by his coming only, but by the consolation with which he …

Psalm 38:19

But mine enemies are lively, and they are strong: and they that hate me wrongfully are multiplied.

But

Psalm 3:1 Lord, how are they increased that trouble me! many are they that …

Psalm 25:19 Consider my enemies; for they are many; and they hate me with cruel hatred.

Psalm 56:1,2 Be merciful to me, O God: for man would swallow me up; he fighting …

Psalm 59:1-3 Deliver me from my enemies, O my God: defend me from them that rise …

are lively [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

Psalm 35:19 Let not them that are my enemies wrongfully rejoice over me: neither …

Psalm 79:5 How long, LORD? will you be angry for ever? shall your jealousy burn like fire?

they that

Psalm 35:19 Let not them that are my enemies wrongfully rejoice over me: neither …

Psalm 69:4 They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head: …

Matthew 10:22 And you shall be hated of all men for my name's sake: but he that …

John 15:18-25 If the world hate you, you know that it hated me before it hated you…

Acts 4:25-28 Who by the mouth of your servant David have said, Why did the heathen …

Psalm 38:20

They also that render evil for good are mine adversaries; because I follow the thing that good is.

render

Psalm 7:4 If I have rewarded evil to him that was at peace with me; (yes, I …