Psalm 38
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Summary
The Psalmist is sorrowful for his sins that haunt him. He pleads for the Lord’s compassion.
| KJV | JST |
| (7) For my loins are filled with a loathsome disease: and there is no soundness in my flesh. | (7) For my loins are filled with a loathsome distress, and |
| (8) I am feeble and sore broken: I have roared by reason of the disquietness of my heart. | (8) I am feeble and broken and very sore. I have wept by reason of the disquietness of my heart. |
| (11) My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my sore; and my kinsmen stand afar off. | (11) My lovers and my friends stand aloof because of my sore; and my kinsmen stand afar off. |
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Complete Commentary on the Whole Bible
Matthew Henry (1706)
Commentary on the Bible
Adam Clarke (1831)
Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable
Thomas Constable
Rashi’s Commentary
Rashi (Shlomo Yitzchaki)
Notes on the Bible
Albert Barnes (1834)
Exposition of the Entire Bible
John Gill (1746–63)
Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament
Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch (1857–78)
Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible
John Wesley (1754–65)