“ My wounds stink and are corrupt because of my foolishness. ”
My wounds stink - The word rendered “wounds” here means properly the swelling or wales produced by stripes. See the notes at Isaiah 1:6 ; notes at Isaiah 53:5 . The meaning here is, that he was...
My wounds stink [and] are corrupt because of (f) my foolishness. (f) That rather gave place to my own lusts, than to the will of God.
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 unscrupulou...
5 My wounds (50) have become putrid In this verse, he pleads the long continuance of his disease as an argument for obtaining some alleviation. When the Lord declares, concerning his Chu...
DISCOURSE: 567 DAVID’S DISTRESS AND CONSOLATION Psalms 38:1-9 . 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 pre...
My wounds stink and are corrupt because of my foolishness. My wounds stink and are corrupt - Taking this in connection with the rest of the Psalm, I do not see that we can understand the word in an...
Because of my foolishness— i.e. "As a just punishment of my folly; whereby, to satisfy my unreasonable desires, I have inconsiderately offended thee." See 2 Samuel 11:2-4 . David in the next verse...
My wounds stink and are corrupt because of my foolishness. My wounds ... are corrupt ( naamaquw ( H4743 )) - literally, melt away. Because of my foolishness - perverse sin. The sinner...
This Ps. may be compared with Psalms 6 . It is the prayer of one who, like Job, is in great bodily suffering ( Psalms 38:1-10 ), and is also deserted by his friends ( Psalms 38:11 ), and beset by tr...
Wounds. — Better, stripes, as in LXX. Stink and are corrupt. — Both words denote suppuration; the first in reference to the offensive smell, the second of the discharge of matter; the whole pa...
Psalms 38:1-22 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 (...
the Cry of the Needy Penitent Psalms 38:1-22 A long drawn-out sigh of pain. Some think it should be classed with Psalms 32:1-11 ; Psalms 51:1-19 , as belonging to the time of David's fall and...
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...
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...
Psalms 38 Proper Psalm for Ash Wednesday ( Morning ). Psalms 38-40 = Day 8 ( Morning ).
My wounds stink, [and] are corrupt ,.... Meaning his sins, which had wounded him, and for which there is no healing but in a wounded Saviour, and by his stripes we are healed, Isaiah 53:5 ; where t...
My wounds stink [and] are corrupt because of my foolishness. Ver. 5. My wounds stink and are corrupt ] What his grief or disease was we read not; some say the leprosy; some take all this allegoric...
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...
Sorrowful Complaints. A psalm of David to bring to remembrance. 1 O L ORD , rebuke me not in thy wrath: neither chas...
The bruises and sores caused by my disease are not only painful, but loathsome to myself and to others. Foolishnss, i.e. sin, which really is, and is commonly called, folly , as Psalms 69:5 Pr...
1). The Psalmist Describes the Chastening that He is Experiencing and Acknowledges the Heinousness of His Sin ( Psalms 38:1-8 ). He commences with a prayer that, while God may rebuke and chasten h...
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 pas...
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 G...
In Psalms 38:19-20 , 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 depres...
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...
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 o...
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...
Isaiah 1:5 ; Isaiah 1:6 ; Jeremiah 8:22 ; Psalms 32:3 ; Psalms 38:7
Foolishness — Sin.