Psalms 38:4

For mine iniquities— i.e. The punishment of them; as Psalms 31:10; Psalms 32:5.—Are gone over my head, is an allusion to the boisterous waves of the sea; under which a man who is shipwrecked is just ready to sink. This comparison is frequent in the psalms. Compare Psalms 42:7; Psalms 69:2; Psalms 124:4-5.

Related Commentaries of Psalms 38:4

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

For mine iniquities are gone over mine head - This is merely an enlargement of the idea suggested in the last verse - that his present sickness w...
Arno Geneva Study Bible

For mine (e) iniquities are gone over mine head: as an heavy burden they are too heavy for me. (e) He confesses his sins, God's justice, and makes p...
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,...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

iniquities. Hebrew. 'aven. App-44. over mine head. The reference is to the burdens of porters and carriers, which often mount up and project o...
Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

4. For my iniquities have passed over my head. Here he complains that he is overwhelmed by his sins as by a heavy burden, so that he utterly...
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 mine iniquities are gone over mine head: as an heavy burden they are too heavy for me. Mine iniquities are gone over mine head - He represents hi...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

For mine iniquities are gone over mine head: as an heavy burden they are too heavy for me. For mine iniquities are gone over mine head - like...
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

Sin is compared first to a flood, and then to a burden.
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Are gone over mine head. — Like waves or a flood. (Comp. Psalms 18:15 ; Psalms 69:2 ; Psalms 69:15 . Comp. “A sea of troubles.” — Hamlet, Ac...
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 ).
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

For mine iniquities are gone over mine head ,.... Like an inundation of waters, as the waves and billows of the sea; for the waters to come up to th...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

For mine iniquities are gone over mine head: as an heavy burden they are too heavy for me. Ver. 4. For mine iniquities are gone over my head ] So...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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 m...
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

Mine iniquities; or, the punishment of mine iniquities , as this word is frequently used; which best agrees both with the foregoing and following...
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

Mine iniquities are gone over my head. Sins compared to deepening waters He compareth his sins to waters which, albeit, at the first entrance t...
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 mine iniquities are gone over mine head, passing over him like an overwhelming flood; as an heavy burden they are too heavy for me, the burden...
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Peter 2:24 ; Ezra 9:6 ; Isaiah 53:11 ; Lamentations 1:14 ; Leviticus 7:18 ; Matthew 11:28 ; Psalms 40:12
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Iniquities — Or, the punishment of mine iniquities, as this word is frequently used. Are gone — Like deep waters wherewith I am overwhelmed.

⁴ For mine iniquities are gone over mine head: as an heavy burden they are too heavy for me.

Related Commentaries of Psalms 38:4

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the 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

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 38:4