Psalms 38:17

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 is my soul, that it is impossible for me to take one right step in the way of righteousness, unless strengthened by thee.

Related Commentaries of Psalms 38:17

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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...
Arno Geneva Study Bible

For I [am] ready to (m) halt, and my sorrow [is] continually before me. (m) I am without hope to recover my strength.
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

halt. Compare Psalms 35:15 and Genesis 32:31 .
Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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...
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...
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

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...
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 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...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

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...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Sorrowful Complaints. 12 They also that seek after my life lay snares...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

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....
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

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...
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...
Sermon Bible Commentary

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...
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 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...
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 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...
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

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.

Related Commentaries of Psalms 38:17

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

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the 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

Sermon Bible 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 38:17