Psalms 38:17,18 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

For I am ready to halt To fall into destruction, Jeremiah 20:10. And, therefore, if thou dost not help me speedily it will be too late. My sorrow is continually before me I am deeply and constantly sensible of thy justice in my chastisement, and I shall be overwhelmed with sorrow if thou dost not prevent it. For I will declare mine iniquity I will confess it to thee as the cause of my sufferings. I will be sorry for my sin Hebrew, אדאג, edag, I will be, or am solicitous, or anxious; full of grief for what is past, and of cares and fears for the future; therefore pity, pardon, and save me.