Foolishness — Sin.
My wounds stink - The word rendered “wounds” here means properly the swelling or wales produced by stripes. See the notes at Isaiah 1:6 ; notes...
My wounds stink [and] are corrupt because of (f) my foolishness. (f) That rather gave place to my own lusts, than to the will of God.
XXXVIII. A Penitential Psalm. After a short prayer for pity (verbally identical with Psalms 6:2 ), the poet describes his bodily and mental pains,...
5 My wounds (50) have become putrid In this verse, he pleads the long continuance of his disease as an argument for obtaining some allev...
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...
My wounds stink and are corrupt because of my foolishness. My wounds stink and are corrupt - Taking this in connection with the rest of the Psalm,...
Because of my foolishness— i.e. "As a just punishment of my folly; whereby, to satisfy my unreasonable desires, I have inconsiderately offended the...
My wounds stink and are corrupt because of my foolishness. My wounds ... are corrupt ( naamaquw ( H4743 )) - literally, melt away. Bec...
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...
Wounds. — Better, stripes, as in LXX. Stink and are corrupt. — Both words denote suppuration; the first in reference to the offensive smell, t...
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 ).
My wounds stink, [and] are corrupt ,.... Meaning his sins, which had wounded him, and for which there is no healing but in a wounded Saviour, and by...
My wounds stink [and] are corrupt because of my foolishness. Ver. 5. My wounds stink and are corrupt ] What his grief or disease was we read not;...
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...
The bruises and sores caused by my disease are not only painful, but loathsome to myself and to others. Foolishnss, i.e. sin, which really is, and...
1). The Psalmist Describes the Chastening that He is Experiencing and Acknowledges the Heinousness of His Sin ( Psalms 38:1-8 ). He commences with...
My wounds are loathsome and corrupt, Because of my foolishness. I am pained and bowed down greatly, I go mourning all the day long. For my loins...
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...
My wounds stink and are corrupt because of my foolishness. Suffering for sin I. David’s unhappy situation. 1. The pain and anguish he felt o...
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...
My wounds, the bruises which he, figuratively, bore by reason of his sins, stink and are corrupt, not only having an evil odor, but also running li...
Isaiah 1:5 ; Isaiah 1:6 ; Jeremiah 8:22 ; Psalms 32:3 ; Psalms 38:7
5 My wounds stink and are corrupt because of my foolishness.