Psalms 38:1-8
[(Title.)]
This deeply penitential Psalm is supposed to have been composed by David under some grievous affliction, either bodily or mental, or both, after his illicit intercourse with Bathsheba.
attention <02142> [to bring.]
rebuke <03198> [rebuke.]
raging fury <02534> [hot.]
arrows <02671> [thine.]
hand <03027> [thy hand.]
sick <04974> [soundness.]
health <07965> [neither.]
health <07965> [rest. Heb. peace, or, health. because.]
sins overwhelm <05771 07218> [mine.]
heavy <03515> [as an.]
wounds <02250> [My wounds.]
The soul being invisible, its distempers are also so; therefore the sacred writers describe them by the distempers of the body. (See the Parallel Texts on these verses.) On reading these and similar passages, say Bp. Lowth, some, who were but little acquainted with the genius of Hebrew poetry, have pretended to enquire into the nature of the disease with which the poet was afflicted; not less absurdly, in my opinion, than if they had perplexed themselves to discover in what river he was plunged, when he complains that "the deep waters had gone over his soul."
dazed <05753> [troubled. Heb. wearied. bowed.]
mourning <06937> [mourning.]
<03689> [my loins.]
sick <04974> [no.]
groan loudly <07580> [roared.]
Psalms 90:7-10
consumed <03615> [For we.]
terrified <0926> [are we.]
aware <07896> [Thou.]
sins ....... hidden <05771 05956> [our.]
<03974> [in the.]
days <03117> [For.]
experience <06437> [passed. Heb. turned. we spend.]
The Vulgate has, {Anni nostri sicut aranea mediatabuntur,} "Our years pass away like those of the spider." Our plans and operations are like the spider's web. Life is as frail, and the thread of it as brittle, as one of those which constitute the well-wrought and curious, but fragile habitation of that insect. All the Versions have the word spider, but it is not found in any Hebrew MSS., or edition yet collated. The Hebrew might be rendered, "We consume our lives with a groan," {kemo hegeh.}
sigh <01899> [a tale. Heb. a meditation.]
days <03117> [The days, etc. Heb. As for the days of our years, in them are seventy years.]
best <07296> [yet.]
quickly <02440> [for.]
Psalms 90:1
[A.M. 2514. B.C. 1490. (Title.) A Prayer, or, A prayer, being a Psalm of Moses.]
This Psalm is supposed to have been composed by Moses, when all the generation of the Israelites who had offended God, were sentenced to fail in the wilderness, at the age of seventy or eighty years, except Moses, Caleb, and Joshua.
man <0376> [the man.]
Lord <0136> [Lord.]
all generations <01755> [all generations. Heb. generation and generation.]
Colossians 1:5
hope <1680> [the hope.]
laid up <606> [laid.]
message <3056> [the word.]
Colossians 1:1
an apostle <652> [an.]
Timothy <5095> [Timotheus.]
Hebrews 12:6
one <3739> [whom.]
and chastises <1161 3146> [and scourgeth.]
Revelation 3:19
All those <3745> [many.]
be earnest <2206> [be.]
repent <3340> [repent.]
