Psalms 6:1-2
accompanied by stringed instruments <05058> [A.M. 2970. B.C. 1034. (Title.) Neginoth.]
sheminith <08067> [Sheminith. or, the eighth.]
rebuke <03198> [rebuke.]
frail <0536> [for I.]
Heal <03068 07495> [O Lord, heal.]
bones <06106> [my.]
Psalms 22:14-15
drains <08210> [I am.]
bones <06106> [all.]
drains <06504> [out of joint. or, sundered. heart.]
<03581> [strength.]
tongue <03956> [tongue.]
dust <06083> [into the.]
Psalms 38:1-10
[(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.]
Lord <0136> [Lord.]
Instead of {adonay,} "Lord," several MSS. read {yehowah,} "Jehovah."
groaning <0585> [groaning.]
heart <03820> [heart.]
see <0216> [the light.]
hardly <0369> [gone from. Heb. not with.]
Psalms 44:25
Psalms 73:14
day <03117> [For all.]
punished <08433> [chastened. Heb. my chastisement was.]
Psalms 73:26
flesh <07607> [flesh.]
God <0430> [but.]
protects <06697> [strength. Heb. rock. portion.]
Psalms 88:3-5
life <05315> [soul.]
<02416> [life.]
treat <02803> [counted.]
man <01397> [as a man.]
adrift <02670> [Free.]
remember <02142> [whom.]
cut off <01504> [cut.]
power <03027> [from thy hand. or, by thy hand.]
Psalms 102:3-5
days <03117> [my days.]
smoke <06227> [like smoke. or, (as some read) into smoke. my bones.]
heart <03820> [heart.]
withered <03001> [withered.]
unable <07911> [so that.]
anxiety <06963> [the voice.]
skin <01320> [skin. or, flesh.]
Psalms 107:10
sat <03427> [Such.]
Here begins the second comparison; in which the state of the captives in Babylon is illustrated by that of prisoners in a dreary dungeon.
sat <03427> [as sit.]
bound <0615> [bound.]
Job 33:19-22
chastened <03198> [chastened.]
pain <04341> [pain.]
life <02416> [his life.]
appetizing fare <08378 03978> [dainty meat. Heb. meat of desire.]
flesh <01320> [His flesh.]
bones <06106> [his bones.]
life <05315> [his soul.]
<02416> [his life.]
