Psalms 38:2-8
thine Ps 21:12, Ps 64:7; Job 6:4; Lam 3:12 thy hand Ps 32:4, Ps 39:10-11; Deut 2:15; Ruth 1:13; 1Sam 5:6, 1Sam 5:11, 1Sam 6:9 soundness Ps 31:9; 2Chr 26:19; Job 2:7-8, Job 33:19-22; Isa 1:5-6 neither Ps 6:2, Ps 51:8, Ps 102:3, Ps 102:5 rest Heb. peace, or, health because Ps 51:8, Ps 90:7-8; Lam 3:40-42 mine Ps 40:12; Ezra 9:6 as an Lev 7:18; Isa 53:11; Lam 1:14; Matt 11:28; 1Pet 2:24 My wounds The soul being invisible, its distempers are also so; therefore the sacred writers describe them by the distempers of the body. (See the parallel texts on these verses.) On reading these and similar passages, say Bp. Lowth, some, who were but little acquainted with the genius of Hebrew poetry, have pretended to enquire into the nature of the disease with which the poet was afflicted; not less absurdly, in my opinion, than if they had perplexed themselves to discover in what river he was plunged, when he complains that "the deep waters had gone over his soul." Ps 38:7, Ps 32:3; Isa 1:5-6; Jer 8:22 troubled Heb. wearied bowed Ps 35:14, Ps 42:5 *marg. Ps 57:6, Ps 145:14 mourning Ps 6:6, Ps 31:10, Ps 42:9, Ps 43:2, Ps 88:9; Job 30:28; Isa 38:14 my loins Ps 41:8; 2Chr 21:18-19; Job 7:5, Job 30:18; Acts 12:23 no Ps 38:3 roared Ps 22:1-2, Ps 32:3; Job 3:24, Job 30:28; Isa 59:11
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