{"collection":"Bible & Christianity","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bib/cmt/jfb/psa038.htm","path":"bib/cmt/jfb/psa038.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bib/cmt/jfb/psa038.htm","text":"A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]\nHe deprecates deserved punishment, which is described (Psa 6:1), under the figure of bodily disease [Psa 38:3].\narrows . . . and thy hand--the sharp and heavy afflictions he suffered (Deu 32:23).\niniquities--afflictions in punishment of sin (Sa2 16:12; Psa 31:10; Psa 40:12).\ngone over mine head--as a flood.\nThe loathsomeness, corruption, and wasting torture of severe physical disease set forth his mental anguish [Psa 38:6]. It is possible some bodily disease was connected. The\nloins are the seat of strength. His exhaustion left him only the power to groan [Psa 38:9].\nThat God can hear (Rom 8:26).\nMy heart panteth--as if barely surviving.\nlight . . . from me--utter exhaustion (Psa 6:7; Psa 13:3).\nFriends desert, but foes increase in malignity.\nseek after my life-- (Sa1 20:1; Sa1 22:23).\nHe patiently submits, uttering no reproaches or replies (Joh 19:9) to their insulting speeches;\nfor he is confident the\nLord--literally, \"Sovereign\" (to whom he was a servant), would answer his prayer (Psa 3:4; Psa 4:1), and not permit their triumph in his partial halting, of which he was in danger.\nConsciousness of sin makes suffering pungent, and suffering, rightly received, leads to confession.\nStill, while humbled before God, he is the victim of deadly enemies, full of malice and treachery.\nenemies are lively--literally, \"of life,\" who would take my life, that is, deadly.\n(Compare Psa 22:19; Psa 35:3). All terms of frequent use. In this Psalm the language is generally susceptible of application to Christ as a sufferer, David, as such, typifying Him. This does not require us to apply the confessions of sin, but only the pains or penalties which He bore for us.","title":"A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments: Psalms: Psalms Chapter 38","type":"page"}