Psalms 38:2

arrows... hand. Figure of speech Anthropopatheia. App-6.

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

For thine arrows slick fast in me - See the notes at Job 6:4 . The word rendered “stick fast” - נחת nâchath - means properly to go or come...
Arno Geneva Study Bible

For thine (c) arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand presseth me sore. (c) Your sickness, with which you have visited me.
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,...
Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

2. For thy arrows go down in me. He shows that he was constrained by dire necessity to ask an alleviation of his misery; for he was crushed...
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: f...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

For thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand presseth me sore. Thine arrows stick fast in me - This no doubt, refers to the acute pains which he e...
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

For thine arrows, &c.— For thine arrows are entered deep into me, and thy hand is come down upon me. Mudge.
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

For thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand presseth me sore. The plea of His prayer; he is now arrived at such a crisis of anguish, and r...
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 deserte...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Arrows ] represent God's judgments as sent from afar, while His hand suggests closer dealing.
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

For thine arrows... — The same figure is used of the disease from which Job suffered (elephantiasis? Job 6:4 ); of famine ( Ezekiel 5:16 ); and ge...
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 t...
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...
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 terr...
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...
James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

Psalms 38 Proper Psalm for Ash Wednesday ( Morning ). Psalms 38-40 = Day 8 ( Morning ).
James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

IN A SORE PLIGHT ‘Thy hand presseth me sore.’ Psalms 38:2 This psalm, says the inscription, was intended to bring to remembrance—Was it God...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

For thine arrows stick fast in me ,.... Meaning either words with which as a father the Lord rebuked him; and which were sharp and cutting, entered...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

For thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand presseth me sore. Ver. 2. For thine arrows stick fast in me ] i.e. Sicknesses of body and troubl...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure I confess that I both deserve chastisement and need it, and therefore I do not desire that thou shouldest...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Sorrowful Complaints. A psalm of David to bring to remembrance. 1...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Thine arrows, i.e. thy judgments inflicted upon my outward and inward man, oft compared to arrows, as Deuteronomy 32:23 Psalms 7:13 , Psalms 4...
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...
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 call...
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...
Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

I am going to read two portions of Scripture. In the first, the 38 th Psalm, we shall hear a suffering servant of Jehovah crying out to his God. Ps...
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 S...
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 dr...
The Biblical Illustrator

For Thine arrows stick fast in me, and Thy hand presseth me sore. God’s arrows Those arrows commonly are either wicked men or devils, whom God...
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 ps...
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 hym...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

For Thine arrows stick fast in me, the arrows of God's anger having sunk into his flesh, and Thy hand presseth me sore, in the misfortune or in the...
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Samuel 5:11 ; 1 Samuel 5:6 ; 1 Samuel 6:9 ; Deuteronomy 2:15 ; Job 6:4 ; Lamentations 3:12 ; Psalms 21:12 ; Psalms 32:4 ; Psalms 39:10 ;...
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Arrows — Thy judgments outward and inward.

² For thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand presseth me sore.

Related Commentaries of Psalms 38:2

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Psalms 38:2