Psalms 38:7 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

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

Psalms 38:7 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

For my bones are filled with a loathsome disease - This would seem to indicate the seat of the disease, though not its nature. The word used here, according to Gesenius (Lexicon), properly denote...
Psalms 38:7 - 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 unscrupulou...
Psalms 38:7 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

loathsome . burning.
Psalms 38:7 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

In the next verse, the word כסלים, kesalaim, which I have rendered reins, is by some translated the flanks. But the more generally received opinion is, that it denotes the part under...
Psalms 38:7 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

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...
Psalms 38:7 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

For my loins are filled with a loathsome disease : and there is no soundness in my flesh. For my loins are filled with a loathsome disease - Or rather, a burning; נקלה nikleh, from קלה kalah, to f...
Psalms 38:7 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

For my loins are filled, &c.— An anonymous writer on the psalms, who differs in opinion from Dr. Delaney, observes, that these words are not to be taken literally, but as figurative expressions...
Psalms 38:7 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

For my loins are filled with a loathsome disease: and there is no soundness in my flesh. For my loins are filled with a loathsome disease ( niqleh ( H7033 )) - literally, with vileness; '...
Psalms 38:7 - 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 38:1-10 ), and is also deserted by his friends ( Psalms 38:11 ), and beset by tr...
Psalms 38:7 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Loathsome disease. — The Hebrew word is a passive participle of a verb meaning to scorch, and here means inflamed or inflammation. Ewald renders “ulcers.” The LXX. and Vulg., deriving from an...
Psalms 38:7 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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 (...
Psalms 38:7 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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...
Psalms 38:7 - 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...
Psalms 38:7 - 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...
Psalms 38:7 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

Psalms 38 Proper Psalm for Ash Wednesday ( Morning ). Psalms 38-40 = Day 8 ( Morning ).
Psalms 38:7 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

For my loins are filled with a loathsome [disease] ,.... The word here used has the signification of burning k; and the Targum renders it, "my loins are filled with burning"; a burning fever was upo...
Psalms 38:7 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

For my loins are filled with a loathsome [disease]: and [there is] no soundness in my flesh. Ver. 7. For my loins are filled with a loathsome disease ] The loins, those scats of lust, are now grie...
Psalms 38:7 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

With a loathsome disease Hebrew, נקלה, nikleh , with vileness , or with scorching heat. “The disease,” says Poole, “might be some burning fever, breaking forth outwardly in carbuncles, or biles...
Psalms 38:7 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Sorrowful Complaints. A psalm of David to bring to remembrance. 1 O L ORD , rebuke me not in thy wrath: neither chas...
Psalms 38:7 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Or, with filthiness ; or, with scorching heat . The disease might be some burning fever, being also malignant or pestilential, either burning inwardly, or breaking forth outwardly in carbuncles or...
Psalms 38:7 - 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 38:1-8 ). He commences with a prayer that, while God may rebuke and chasten h...
Psalms 38:7 - 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 pas...
Psalms 38:7 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

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...
Psalms 38:7 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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...
Psalms 38:7 - 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...
Psalms 38:7 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

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...
Psalms 38:7 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

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...
Psalms 38:7 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 Chronicles 21:18 ; 2 Chronicles 21:19 ; Acts 12:23 ; Job 30:18 ; Job 7:5 ; Psalms 41:8 ; Psalms 38:3
Psalms 38:7 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Disease — The disease might be some burning fever, breaking forth outwardly in carbuncles, or boils. It is true, this and the other expressions may be taken figuratively, but we should not forsake...

Psalms 38:7 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Psalms 38:7 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Psalms 38:7 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Psalms 38:7 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Psalms 38:7 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

Psalms 38:7 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Psalms 38:7 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Psalms 38:7 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Psalms 38:7 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Psalms 38:7 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Psalms 38:7 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Psalms 38:7 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Psalms 38:7 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Psalms 38:7 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Psalms 38:7 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

Psalms 38:7 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Psalms 38:7 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Psalms 38:7 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Psalms 38:7 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Psalms 38:7 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Psalms 38:7 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Psalms 38:7 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Psalms 38:7 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Psalms 38:7 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Psalms 38:7 - The Biblical Illustrator

Psalms 38:7 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Psalms 38:7 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Psalms 38:7 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 38:7 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes