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PsalmsPsa 37:22 PsalmsPsa 38 PsalmsPsa 38:2

O LORD, do not rebuke me in Your wrath, Nor discipline me in Your burning anger.

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Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Afflictions and Adversities; Chastisement; Conviction; Torrey's Topical Textbook - Anger of God, the;

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Psalms, the Book of; Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Chastisement; Suffering; Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Pit; Holman Bible Dictionary - Chasten, Chastisement; Guilt; Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - English Versions; Greek Versions of Ot; Psalms; Sin; People's Dictionary of the Bible - Psalms the book of; Zion;

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Foam;

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Parallel Translations

English Standard Version

A Psalm of David, for the memorial offering.

O Lord , rebuke me not in your anger, nor discipline me in your wrath!

Geneva Bible (1587)
A Psalme of Dauid for remembrance. O Lorde, rebuke mee not in thine anger, neither chastise me in thy wrath.

Christian Standard Bible®
Lord, do not punish me in your angeror discipline me in your wrath.

Hebrew Names Version
<> LORD, don't rebuke me in your wrath, Neither chasten me in your hot displeasure.

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Contextual Overview

¹O LORD, do not rebuke me in Your wrath, Nor discipline me in Your burning anger.²For Your arrows have sunk into me and penetrate deeply, And Your hand has pressed down on me and greatly disciplined me. ³There is no soundness in my flesh because of Your indignation; There is no health in my bones because of my sin. ⁴For my iniquities have gone over my head [like the waves of a flood]; As a heavy burden they weigh too much for me. ⁵My wounds are loathsome and foul Because of my foolishness. ⁶I am bent over and greatly bowed down; I go about mourning all day long. ⁷For my sides are filled with burning, And there is no health in my flesh. ⁸I am numb and greatly bruised [deadly cold and completely worn out]; I groan because of the disquiet and moaning of my heart. ⁹Lord, all my desire is before You; And my sighing is not hidden from You. ¹⁰My heart throbs violently, my strength fails me; And as for the light of my eyes, even that has also gone from me.

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Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

- 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.

to bring: Psalms 70:1,*title

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Cross-References

Genesis 38:2
There Judah saw a daughter of Shua, a Canaanite, and he took her [as his wife] and lived with her.

Genesis 38:3
So she conceived and gave birth to a son and Judah named him Er.

Joshua 12:15
the king of Libnah, one; the king of Adullam, one;

Joshua 15:35
Jarmuth and Adullam, Socoh and Azekah,

Judges 4:18
Jael went out to meet Sisera, and said to him, "Turn aside, my lord, turn aside to me! Have no fear." So he turned aside to her [and went] into the tent, and she covered him with a rug.

1 Samuel 22:1
So David departed from there and escaped to the cave of Adullam; and when his brothers and all his father's house heard about it, they went down there to him.

2 Samuel 23:13
Then three of the thirty chief men went down and came to David at harvest time in the cave of Adullam, while an army of Philistines was encamped in the Valley of Rephaim.

2 Kings 4:8
Now there came a day when Elisha went over to Shunem, where there was a prominent and influential woman, and she persuaded him to eat a meal. Afterward, whenever he passed by, he stopped there for a meal.

Proverbs 9:6
"Leave [behind] your foolishness [and the foolish] and live, And walk in the way of insight and understanding."

Proverbs 13:20
He who walks [as a companion] with wise men will be wise, But the companions of [conceited, dull-witted] fools [are fools themselves and] will experience harm.

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Gill's Notes on the Bible

O Lord, rebuke me not in thy wrath: neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure,.... This and the following clause are the same as in Psalms 6:1, only instead of wrath there it is anger;

Psalms 6:1- :.

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Barnes' Notes on the Bible

O Lord, rebuke me not in thy wrath - See the notes at Psalms 6:1, where the same language occurs, except in the change of a single Hebrew “word,” that is, “wrath,” though expressing the same idea.

Neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure - See the notes at Psalms 6:1. The Hebrew in both is the same, except that in this place the negative particle is omitted, but without affecting the sense. It is not improbable that the one was copied from the other, or that this was composed with the language of the former in the memory. Thus we often use language with which we are familiar, as being well adapted to express our ideas.

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Clarke's Notes on the Bible

PSALM XXXVIII

David prays God to have mercy upon him, and gives a most

affecting account of his miserable state, 1-10;

complains of his being forsaken by his friends, and cruelly

persecuted by his enemies, 11-16;

confesses his sin; and earnestly implores help, 17-22.

NOTES ON PSALM XXXVIII

The title in the HEBREW states this to be A Psalm of David, to bring to remembrance. The CHALDEE; "A Psalm of David for a good memorial to Israel." The VULGATE, SEPTUAGINT, and AETHIOPIC: "A Psalm of David, for a commemoration concerning the Sabbath." The ARABIC: "A Psalm in which mention is made of the Sabbath; besides, it is a thanksgiving and a prophecy." Never was a title more misplaced or less expressive of the contents. There is no mention of the Sabbath in it; there is no thanksgiving in it, for it is deeply penitential; and I do not see that it contains any prophecy. The SYRIAC: "A psalm of David, when they said to the Philistine king, Achish, This is David, who killed Goliath; we will not have him to go with us against Saul. Besides, it is a form of confession for us." It does not appear that, out of all the titles, we can gather the true intent of the Psalm.

Several conjectures have been made relative to the occasion on which this Psalm was composed; and the most likely is, that it was in reference to some severe affliction which David had after his illicit commerce with Bath-sheba; but of what nature we are left to conjecture from the third, fifth, and seventh verses. Whatever it was, he deeply repents for it, asks pardon, and earnestly entreats support from God.

Verse Psalms 38:1. O Lord, rebuke me not — He was sensible that he was suffering under the displeasure of God; and he prays that the chastisement may be in mercy, and not in judgment.

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Psalms 38:1

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Parallel Translations

A Psalm of David, for the memorial offering.

A song of David for the day of remembrance.

A Psalm of David, to bring to remembrance.

(A psalm by David to be used when an offering is made.)

A psalm of David. To bring to remembrance.

A psalm of David to remember.

A psalm of David, written to get God's attention.

A psalm of David, asking God to remember him.

A Psalm of David, for the memorial offering.

A Psalm of David, to bring to remembrance.

A Psalm of David, for a memorial.

Contextual Overview

Bible Verse Review from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Cross-References

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge