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<p id="Chapter38" align="center">Commentary by A. R. FAUSSET<br>PSALM 38
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<p id="Ps38_1"><a onclick="return mV('Psa',38,'1-22');">Psa 38:1-22</a>.
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<p><i>To bring to remembrance,</i> or, remind God of His mercy and himself of his sin. Appealing to God for relief from His heavy chastisement, the Psalmist avows his integrity before men, complains of the defection of friends and persecution of enemies, and in a submissive spirit, casting himself on God, with penitent confession he pleads God's covenant relation and his innocence of the charges of his enemies, and prays for divine comfort and help.
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<p><b>1-4.</b> He deprecates deserved punishment, which is described (<a onclick="return mV('Psa',6,1);">Psa 6:1</a>), under the figure of bodily disease (<a onclick="return mV('Psa',38,3);">Psa 38:3</a>).
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<p id="Ps38_2"><b>2. arrows...and thy hand</b>—the sharp and heavy afflictions he suffered (<a onclick="return mV('Deu',32,23);">Deu 32:23</a>).
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<p id="Ps38_4"><b>4. iniquities</b>—afflictions in punishment of sin (<a onclick="return mV('2Sa',16,12);">2Sa 16:12</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Psa',31,10);">Psa 31:10</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Psa',40,12);">40:12</a>).
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<br><br><b>gone over mine head</b>—as a flood.
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<p id="Ps38_5"><b>5-8.</b> The loathsomeness, corruption, and wasting torture of severe physical disease set forth his mental anguish (<a onclick="return mV('Psa',38,6);">Psa 38:6</a>). It is possible some bodily disease was connected. The
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<br><br><b>loins</b> are the seat of strength. His exhaustion left him only the power to groan [<a onclick="return mV('Psa',38,9);">Psa 38:9</a>].
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<p id="Ps38_9"><b>9.</b> That God can hear (<a onclick="return mV('Rom',8,26);">Rom 8:26</a>).
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<p id="Ps38_10"><b>10. My heart panteth</b>—as if barely surviving.
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<br><br><b>light...from me</b>—utter exhaustion (<a onclick="return mV('Psa',6,7);">Psa 6:7</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Psa',13,3);">13:3</a>).
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<p id="Ps38_11"><b>11, 12.</b> Friends desert, but foes increase in malignity.
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<p id="Ps38_12"><b>12. seek after my life</b>— (<a onclick="return mV('1Sa',20,1);">1Sa 20:1</a>; <a onclick="return mV('1Sa',22,23);">22:23</a>).
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<p id="Ps38_13"><b>13, 14.</b> He patiently submits, uttering no reproaches or replies (<a onclick="return mV('Jhn',19,9);">Jhn 19:9</a>) to their insulting speeches;
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<p id="Ps38_15"><b>15-17.</b> for he is confident the
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<br><br><b>Lord</b>—literally, "Sovereign" (to whom he was a servant), would answer his prayer (<a onclick="return mV('Psa',3,4);">Psa 3:4</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Psa',4,1);">4:1</a>), and not permit their triumph in his partial halting, of which he was in danger.
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<p id="Ps38_18"><b>18.</b> Consciousness of sin makes suffering pungent, and suffering, rightly received, leads to confession.
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<p id="Ps38_19"><b>19, 20.</b> Still, while humbled before God, he is the victim of deadly enemies, full of malice and treachery.
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<br><br><b>enemies are lively</b>—literally, "of life," who would take my life, that is, deadly.
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<p id="Ps38_21"><b>21, 22.</b> (Compare <a onclick="return mV('Psa',22,19);">Psa 22:19</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Psa',35,3);">35:3</a>). 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.
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