Mazmur 38:17

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

(38-18) Sebab aku mulai jatuh karena tersandung, dan aku selalu dirundung kesakitan;

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
(38-18) Sebab aku mulai jatuh karena tersandung, dan aku selalu dirundung kesakitan;

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Karena kataku: Janganlah kiranya mereka itu bersukacita akan daku apabila kakiku tergelincir, dan jangan mereka itu membesarkan dirinya sebab aku.

Contextual Overview

¹² They also that sought after my lyfe layde snares [for me]: and they that went about to do me euyll, talked of wickednesse, and imagined deceipt all the day long. ¹³ As for me, as one deafe I woulde not heare: and [I was] as one that is dumbe [who] coulde not open his mouth. ¹⁴ I became euen as a man that heareth not: and who hath no replies in his mouth. ¹⁵ For on thee O God I haue wayted: thou shalt aunswere for me O Lorde my God. ¹⁶ For I sayde [heare me] lest that they shoulde triumph on me: who auaunce [them selues] greatly agaynst me when my foote doth slyp. ¹⁷ Because I am disposed to a haltyng: and my sorowe is euer in my syght. ¹⁸ Because I confesse my wickednesse: and am sory for my sinne. ¹⁹ But myne enemies lyuyng [without payne] are mightie: & they that hate me wrongfully are increased in number. ²⁰ They also that rewarde euyl for good are agaynst me: because I folowe the thyng that is good. ²¹ Forsake me not O God: O my Lorde be not thou farre fro me.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

to halt: Heb. for halting, Psalms 35:15, *marg. Micah 4:6, Micah 4:7

sorrow: Psalms 38:6, Psalms 6:6, Psalms 77:2, Psalms 77:3, Isaiah 53:3-5

Reciprocal: Genesis 32:31 - he halted Psalms 13:2 - sorrow

Cross-References

Genesis 38:20
And Iudas sent the kyd by his friende Adulam, for to receaue his pledge againe from the womans hand: but he founde her not.

Genesis 38:24
And it came to passe, after three monethes one tolde Iuda, saying: Thamar thy daughter in lawe hath played the harlot, and with playing the harlot is become great with chylde. And Iuda sayde: Bryng her foorth, that she may be brent.

Genesis 38:25
And when they brought her foorth, she sent to her father in lawe, saying: By the man vnto whom these thynges [pertaine] am I with chylde: And saide also, Loke I pray thee whose are these, this seale, and this bracelet, and this staffe.

Proverbs 20:16
Take his garment that is suretie for a straunger: and take a pledge of hym for the vnknowen sake.

Ezekiel 16:33
Giftes are geuen to all other whores: but thou geuest rewardes vnto all thy louers, & rewardest them to come vnto thee on euery side for thy fornication.

Luke 16:8
And the Lord commended the vniuste stewarde, because he had done wisely. For the chyldren of this worlde are in their nation, wiser then the chyldren of lyght.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For I [am] ready to halt,.... Meaning either that there was a proneness in him to sin; see Jeremiah 20:10; or that he was subject to affliction and adversity, as the same word is rendered in Psalms 35:15; and the words are either a reason and argument used with the Lord, to hear and keep his foot from slipping, that so his enemies might not rejoice over him, and magnify themselves against him; as they would do should he fall into sin or into any calamity, both which he was liable to: or they are a reason why he was so calm and quiet under the ill usage he met with from friends and enemies, because he was "ready for halting", or "prepared" o for it; he considered that he was born for trouble and adversity; that God had appointed him to it, and it was appointed for him, and therefore he was quiet under it; see Job 5:6; he was prepared to meet it; he expected it, it being the common lot of God's people; and therefore when it came upon him it was no strange thing to him. The Septuagint version, and those that follow that, render the words, "I am ready for scourges"; and Jerom applies them to Christ, who was ready to undergo scourges, sufferings, and death itself, for his people;

and my sorrow [is] continually before me; that is, for his sin, which was ever before him, stared him in the face, lay heavy on his conscience, and appeared very terrible and loathsome to him; his sorrow for it was without intermission, and was a godly sorrow, a sorrow for sin, as committed against a God of love, grace, and mercy: or he may mean, that his affliction, which was grievous to him, was continually upon him night and day: our Lord himself, David's antitype, was a man of sorrows all his days.

o נכון V. L. Pagninus, Montanus, Cocceius, Gejerus, Michaelis.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

For I am ready to halt - Margin, as in Hebrew, “for halting.” The word from which the word used here is derived means properly to lean on one side, and then to halt or limp. The meaning here is, that he was like one who was limping along, and who was ready to fall; that is, in the case here referred to, he felt that his strength was almost gone, and that he was in continual danger of falling into sin, or sinking under his accumulated burdens, and of thus giving occasion for all that his enemies said of him, or occasion for their triumphing over him. Men often have this feeling - that their sorrows are so great that they cannot hope to hold out much longer, and that if God does not interpose they must fall.

And my sorrow is continually before me - That is, my grief or suffering is unintermitted. Probably the reference here is particularly to that which “caused” his grief, or which was the source of his trouble - his sin. The fact that he was a sinner was never absent from his mind; that was the source of all his trouble; that was what so pressed upon him that it was likely to crush him to the dust.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 38:17. For I am ready to halt — Literally, I am prepared to halt. So completely infirm is my soul, that it is impossible for me to take one right step in the way of righteousness, unless strengthened by thee.