“ Lord, all my desire is before thee; and my groaning is not hid from thee. ”
Lord, all my desire is before thee - That is, Thou knowest all that I would ask or that I need. This is the expression of one who felt that his only hope was in God, and that He fully understood...
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...
LORD *. Primitive text was Jehovah. One of the 134 emendations of the Sopherim. App-32.
9 O Lord! thou knowest all my desire. He adds this, not so much in respect of God, as to strengthen himself in the hope of obtaining some alleviation of his trouble, and thus to animate hims...
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...
Lord, all my desire is before thee; and my groaning is not hid from thee. Lord, all my desire is before thee - I long for nothing so much as thy favor; and for this my heart is continually going ou...
Lord, all my desire is before thee; and my groaning is not hid from thee. Lord, all my desire is before thee; and my groaning is not hid from thee - thine omniscience knows that I do not exag...
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...
All my desire. — Notice the clutch at the thought of divine justice, as the clutch of a drowning man amid that sea of trouble.
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 ).
Lord, all my desire [is] before thee ,.... To be delivered from his afflictions, to have a discovery and application of pardoning grace, and to have communion with his God: the desire of his soul wa...
Lord, all my desire [is] before thee; and my groaning is not hid from thee. Ver. 9. Lord, all my desire is before thee ] Confused desires, broken requests, if from a broken spirit, are upon the fi...
I have roared Hebrew, שׁאגתי, sha-agti, roared like a lion , or a bear, namely, through extreme misery; by reason of the disquietness of my heart For the great anxiety and torment of my mind, ca...
Sorrowful Complaints. A psalm of David to bring to remembrance. 1 O L ORD , rebuke me not in thy wrath: neither chas...
I do not utter all these complaints, nor roar out, that thou mayst hear and know them, for thou hearest and knowest even my lowest groans; yea, mine inward desires, and all my necessities. And theref...
2). He Looks to His Sovereign Lord Amidst Even the Desertion of His Friends and Loved Ones ( Psalms 38:9-14 ). Up to this point the Psalmist's emphasis has been on his own personal state. It is hi...
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 38:9 I. This passage, strictly and plainly interpreted, represents a fact that is without exception: "Lord, all my desire is before Thee." In a certain sense, every being susceptible of des...
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...
2 Corinthians 5:2 ; John 1:48 ; Psalms 102:20 ; Psalms 102:5 ; Romans 8:22 ; Romans 8:23 ; Romans 8:26 ; Romans 8:27