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Psalms 38:22
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Hurry to help me,my Lord, my salvation.
Hurry to help me, Lord, my salvation.
Make haste to help me, O Lord my salvation.
Make haste to help me, O Lord, my salvation!
Quickly come and help me, my Lord and Savior.
Hurry and help me, O Lord, my deliverer!
Hurry to help me, Lord, my salvation!
Hurry to help me, Lord, my salvation.
Haste thee to helpe mee, O my Lorde, my saluation.
Make haste to help me,O Lord, my salvation!
Come quickly to help me, O Lord my Savior.
You are the one who saves me. Please hurry and help.
Don't abandon me, Adonai ! My God, don't be far from me! Come quickly to help me, Adonai, my salvation!
Make haste to help me, O Lord, my salvation.
Come quickly and help me. My Lord, you are the one who saves me.
Abide to help me and save me.
Help me now, O Lord my savior!
Hurry to help me, O Lord, my salvation.
Make haste to help me, O my Lord, my salvation.
Haist the to helpe me, O LORDE my succoure.
Make haste to help me, O Lord, my salvation.
Come quickly to give me help, O Lord, my salvation.
Forsake me not, O LORD; O my God, be not far from me. Make haste to help me, O Lord, my salvation.
Make haste to helpe mee, O Lord my saluation.
Haste thee to helpe me: O Lorde my saluation.
Draw nigh to my help, O Lord of my salvation.
Make haste to help me, O Lord my salvation.
Lord God of myn helthe; biholde thou in to myn help.
Hurry to help me, O Lord, my salvation.
Make haste to help me, O Lord my salvation.
Make haste to help me, O Lord, my salvation!
Come quickly to help me, O Lord my savior.
Hurry to help me, O Lord, Who saves me!
make haste to help me, O Lord, my salvation.
Make haste to help me, My Lord, my deliverance!
(37-23) Attend unto my help, O Lord, the God of my salvation.
Make haste to help me, O Lord, my salvation!
Haste to help me, O Lord, my salvation!
Make haste to help me, O Lord, my salvation!
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Make: Psalms 40:13, Psalms 40:17, Psalms 70:1, Psalms 70:5, Psalms 71:12, Psalms 141:1
to help me: Heb. for my help
O Lord: Psalms 27:1, Psalms 62:2, Psalms 62:6, Isaiah 12:2
Reciprocal: Psalms 27:9 - O God Psalms 51:14 - thou God Psalms 119:8 - O forsake
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Make haste and help me,.... Or, "for my help"; his case required haste, and God does help his people when none else can, and that right early;
O Lord, my salvation; by which it appears that his prayer was a prayer of faith; he saw that his salvation was in the Lord, and in no other; and though he had been and was in such a low condition, both in soul and body, yet his faith was not lost; that is an abiding grace, and will continue under the influence of the author and finisher of it, until the end of it is received, the salvation of the soul. R. Moses r thinks the phrase "make haste" is to be repeated here, and read thus, "make haste, O Lord, to my salvation".
r In Aben Ezra & R. Joseph Kimchi in R. David Kimchi in loc.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Make haste to help me - Margin, as in Hebrew: “for my help.” This is an earnest prayer that God would come immediately to his rescue.
O Lord my salvation - See the notes at Psalms 27:1. The effect, therefore, of the trials that came upon the psalmist was to lead him to cry most earnestly to God. Those sorrows led him to God. This is one of the designed effects of affliction. Trouble never accomplishes its proper effect unless it leads us to God; and anything that “will” lead us to him is a gain in the end. The deeper our trouble, therefore, the greater may be the ultimate good to us; and at the end of life, when we come to look over all that has happened in our journey through this world, that on which we may look back with most satisfaction and gratitude may be the sorrows and afflictions that have befallen us - for these will be then seen to have been among the chief instrumentalities by which we were weaned from sin; by which we were led to the Saviour; by which we were induced to seek a preparation for heaven. No Christian, when he comes to die, ever feels that he has been too much afflicted, or that any trial has come upon him for which there was not occasion, and which was not designed and adapted to do him good.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Psalms 38:22. Make haste to help me — I am dying; save, Lord, or I perish. Whoever carefully reads over this Psalm will see what a grievous and bitter thing it is to sin against the Lord, and especially to sin after having known his mercy, and after having escaped from the corruption that is in the world. Reader, be on thy guard; a life of righteousness may be lost by giving way to a moment's temptation, and a fair character sullied for ever! Let him that most assuredly standeth take heed lest he fall.
'Tis but a grain of sweet that one can sow,
To reap a harvest of wide-wasting wo.
ANALYSIS OF THE THIRTY-EIGHTH PSALM
This Psalm may be divided into two parts: - I. A deprecation; begun Psalms 38:1, and continued in Psalms 38:21-22.
II. A grievous complaint of sin, disease misery, God's anger, the ingratitude of his friends, coldness of his acquaintances, and cruelty of his enemies; all which he uses as arguments to induce God to help him; continued, Psalms 38:2-20.
I. In the first part he deprecates God's anger, and entreats a mitigation of it; though rebuked, let it not be in wrath; if corrected, let it not be in rigour: "O Lord, rebuke me not in thy wrath," c.
II. His complaint, on which he falls instantly, and amplifies in a variety of ways.
1. From the prime cause, GOD: "Thine arrows stick fast in me," c.
2. From the impulsive cause: "His sin, his iniquities," Psalms 38:4 "His foolishness," Psalms 38:5.
3. From the weight of his afflictions, which were, in general, "the arrows of God which stuck in him the hand of God, by which he was pressed;" which were so grievous "that there was no soundness in his flesh - no rest in his bones."
4. By an induction of particulars, where he declares many effects of the disease: -
1. Putrefaction of his flesh: "My wounds stink, and are corrupt."
2. The uncomfortable posture of his body: "I am troubled, I am bowed down greatly."
3. Torment in his bowels, c.: "My loins are filled with a loathsome disease."
4. Diseases through the whole system: "There is no soundness in my flesh."
5. Debility and grievous plague: "I am feeble," c.
6. Anguish that forced him to cry out: "I have roared," &c.
7. His heart was disquieted: "The disquietness of my heart." But that it might appear that he had not lost his hold of his hope and his confidence in God, he directs his speech to him, and says: "Lord, all my desire is before thee, and my groaning is not hidden from thee."
8. He had a palpitation or trembling of heart: "My heart pants."
9. His strength decayed: "My strength fails."
10. A defect of sight: "The sight of my eyes is gone from me."
All these calamities David suffered from within. He was tormented in body and mind but had he any comfort from without? Not any.
1. None from his friends: "My lovers and my friends stand aloof." 2. As for his enemies, they even then added to his affliction: "They also that seek after my life lay snares for me." In purpose, word, and deed, they sought to undo him.
He next shows his behaviour in these sufferings he murmured not, but was silent and patient. "I was as a deaf man; - I was as a dumb man." He made no defence.
This he uses as an argument to induce the Lord to mitigate his sufferings; and of his patience he gives the following reasons: -
1. His reliance on God for audience and redress: "For in thee, O Lord, do I hope; thou wilt hear me."
2. For this he petitions; for to God he was not silent, though deaf and dumb to man. For I said, Hear me! and the assurance that he should be heard made him patient; for if not heard, his enemies would triumph: "Hear me, lest otherwise they should rejoice over me."
3. He was thus patient when his grief was extreme: "For I am ready to halt, and my sorrow is continually before me." I am under a bitter cross; and I know that if I be thy servant, I must bear my cross; therefore, I take it up, and suffer patiently.
4. This cross I have deserved to bear; it comes on account of mine iniquity, and I will not conceal it: "I will declare mine iniquity; I will be sorry for my sin." I suffer justly, and therefore have reason to be patient.
He complains again of his enemies. Though he suffered justly, yet this was no excuse for their cruelty; he complains of their strength, their number, and their hatred. My enemies are living, while I am at death's door; they are multiplied while I am minished; they render me evil for the good I have done them.
Then he concludes with a petition to God, in which he begs three things: -
1. God's presence: forsake me not, O Lord; my God, be not far from me."
2. He begs for help: "Help me, O Lord."
3. And prays that this help may come speedily: "Make haste to help me."
And these three petitions are directed to the Most High, as the God of his salvation: "O Lord, my salvation;" my deliverer from sin, guilt, pain, death, and hell.
In this Psalm, deeply descriptive of the anguish of a penitent soul, most persons, who feel distress on account of sin, may meet with something suitable to their case.
