Isaiah 53:3-5; Micah 4:6; Micah 4:7; Psalms 35:15; Psalms 38:6; Psalms 6:6; Psalms 77:2; Psalms 77:3
For I am ready to halt - Margin, as in Hebrew, “for halting.” The word from which the word used here is derived means properly to lean on one sid...
For I [am] ready to (m) halt, and my sorrow [is] continually before me. (m) I am without hope to recover my strength.
XXXVIII. A Penitential Psalm. After a short prayer for pity (verbally identical with Psalms 6:2 ), the poet describes his bodily and mental pains,...
halt. Compare Psalms 35:15 and Genesis 32:31 .
17 Surely I am ready to halt This verse has led expositors to suppose that David was afflicted with some sore, from which he was afraid of h...
For I am ready to halt, and my sorrow is continually before me. For I am ready to halt - Literally, I am prepared to halt. So completely infirm i...
For I am ready to halt, and my sorrow is continually before me. For I am ready to halt - perpetually I am all but so disabled as not to stand...
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...
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...
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...
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...
It is blessed, and it is precious to see Christ thus rolling himself, if I may so say, upon God the Father in his trials, because it comes in as a co...
Psalms 38 Proper Psalm for Ash Wednesday ( Morning ). Psalms 38-40 = Day 8 ( Morning ).
For I [am] ready to halt ,.... Meaning either that there was a proneness in him to sin; see Jeremiah 20:10 ; or that he was subject to affliction a...
For I [am] ready to halt, and my sorrow [is] continually before me. Ver. 17. For I am ready to halt ] i.e. To misbehave mysetf and so to mar a g...
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 sorro...
Sorrowful Complaints. 12 They also that seek after my life lay snares...
Ready to halt; just falling into utter destruction; see Jeremiah 20:10 ; and therefore if thou dost not help me speedily, it will be too late....
3). He Calls on YHWH his Lord for Deliverance from his Enemies in View of his Own Deep Repentance and his Confidence in the True Faithfulness to Him...
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...
Psalms 38:17 There are some roads in which we cannot halt, the road, for instance, which leads to death. There are paths in which it is well to h...
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...
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...
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...
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...
For I am ready to halt. Resolution almost exhausted We reach the “I will” by “I must” and “I ought.” Now, this struggle with self-will is like...
EXPOSITION THIS is the third of the penitential psalms, and is appropriately recited by the Church on Ash Wednesday. Of all the penitential ps...
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...
For I am ready to halt, on the point of falling with lameness, and my sorrow is continually before me, his feeling of guilt serving to keep his mis...
To halt — just falling into destruction. Before me — I am constantly sensible of thy just hand, and of my sins the cause of it.
17 For I am ready to halt,e and my sorrow is continually before me.