1 Peter 2:24; Ezra 9:6; Isaiah 53:11; Lamentations 1:14; Leviticus 7:18; Matthew 11:28; Psalms 40:12
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...
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...
XXXVIII. A Penitential Psalm. After a short prayer for pity (verbally identical with Psalms 6:2 ), the poet describes his bodily and mental pains,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Sin is compared first to a flood, and then to a burden.
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...
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...
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...
Psalms 38 Proper Psalm for Ash Wednesday ( Morning ). Psalms 38-40 = Day 8 ( Morning ).
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...
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...
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...
Sorrowful Complaints. A psalm of David to bring to remembrance. 1...
Mine iniquities; or, the punishment of mine iniquities , as this word is frequently used; which best agrees both with the foregoing and following...
1). The Psalmist Describes the Chastening that He is Experiencing and Acknowledges the Heinousness of His Sin ( Psalms 38:1-8 ). He commences with...
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...
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...
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...
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 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...
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.