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Key Terms

To Be Kindly Disposed 4 Plea for Mercy 4 Kindness (Solidarity) 3 Save (Help) 2 To Acknowledge 2 Mischief 2 Salvation Salvation (State) Save (Restore) Salvation (Physical) Salvation (Deliverance) Salvation (Rescuer) Save (Rescue) Salvation (Means) Saving (Means) Be Kind Kindness (Benevolence) Kindness (Graciousness) Kindness (Affection) Praise Supplication

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Do Not Rebuke Me in Your Anger

(Psalms 38:1–22)

For the choirmaster. With stringed instruments, according to Sheminith. A Psalm of David.

ⓘ The occasion for this lament might have been...

The occasion for this lament might have been sickness or a mental or spiritual depression from which the psalmist sought healing.
ⓘ The psalmist asks for God’s favor and restoration...

The psalmist asks for God’s favor and restoration at a difficult time.
1O LORD, do not rebuke me in Your angeror discipline me in Your wrath.
ⓘ In his longing for God’s response to his...

In his longing for God’s response to his prayer, the psalmist grew physically weak (6:6; see 77:3; 119:81; 142:1–3; see also Ps 101). Fasting might have played a part in his agony, but this is not mentioned.
2Be merciful to me, O LORD, for I am frail;heal me, O LORD, for my bones are in agony.3My soul is deeply distressed.How long, O LORD, how long?
ⓘ The experience was so painful that the psalmist...

The experience was so painful that the psalmist might as well have been dead, or perhaps he feared for his life.
4Turn, O LORD, and deliver my soul;save me because of Your loving devotion.5For there is no mention of You in death;who can praise You from Sheol?
ⓘ The psalmist is exhausted to the depths of...
  • The psalmist is exhausted to the depths of his being from the anguish of his spiritual distance from the Lord (22:1; 31:9–10; 102:5).
  • When eyes dim, the body is failing (see 13:3; 31:9; 38:10; Matt 6:22).
6I am weary from groaning;all night I flood my bed with weepingand drench my couch with tears.7My eyes fail from grief;they grow dim because of all my foes.
ⓘ In a closing note of triumph, the psalmist...

In a closing note of triumph, the psalmist reasserts his confidence in the Lord.
8Depart from me, all you workers of iniquity,for the LORD has heard my weeping.9The LORD has heard my cry for mercy;the LORD accepts my prayer.10All my enemies will be ashamed and dismayed;they will turn back in sudden disgrace.