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Psalms 38

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Part of Book I📖 Psalms introduction

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1A Psalm by David, for a memorial. Yahweh, don’t rebuke me in your wrath, neither chasten me in your hot displeasure. ✦ 2For your arrows have pierced me, your hand presses hard on me. ✦ 3There is no soundness in my flesh because of your indignation, neither is there any health in my bones because of my sin. ✦ 4For my iniquities have gone over my head. As a heavy burden, they are too heavy for me. ✦ 5My wounds are loathsome and corrupt, because of my foolishness. ✦ 6I am pained and bowed down greatly. I go mourning all day long. ✦ 7For my waist is filled with burning. There is no soundness in my flesh. ✦ 8I am faint and severely bruised. I have groaned by reason of the anguish of my heart. ✦ 9Lord, all my desire is before you. My groaning is not hidden from you. ✦ 10My heart throbs. My strength fails me. As for the light of my eyes, it has also left me. ✦ 11My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my plague. My kinsmen stand far away. ✦ 12They also who seek after my life lay snares. Those who seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and meditate deceits all day long. ✦ 13But I, as a deaf man, don’t hear. I am as a mute man who doesn’t open his mouth. ✦ 14Yes, I am as a man who doesn’t hear, in whose mouth are no reproofs. ✦ 15For in you, Yahweh, do I hope. You will answer, Lord my God. ✦ 16For I said, “Don’t let them gloat over me, or exalt themselves over me when my foot slips.” ✦ 17For I am ready to fall. My pain is continually before me. ✦ 18For I will declare my iniquity. I will be sorry for my sin. ✦ 19But my enemies are vigorous and many. Those who hate me without reason are numerous. ✦ 20They who also render evil for good are adversaries to me, because I follow what is good. ✦ 21Don’t forsake me, Yahweh. My God, don’t be far from me. ✦ 22Hurry to help me, Lord, my salvation. ✦

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Where this chapter connects

Ps 35 ·8Ps 6 ·6Isa 53 ·5Ps 102 ·5Ps 22 ·5Ps 88 ·5Ps 39 ·4Ps 31 ·4

Christ at the center

The Psalms are Christ's own prayer book and a gallery of his portraits — the suffering one of Psalm 22, the risen Lord of Psalm 16, the priest-king of Psalm 110, the Son to whom the nations are given.

How Psalms 38 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

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  • ★ Start hereAudioThrough the WordThrough the Word · ~10 min/chapter · Free · evangelical

    A clear ~10-minute audio teaching for every one of the Bible's 1,189 chapters — the most systematic free way to study chapter by chapter.

  • ★ Start hereCommentaryPsalms (Tyndale OT Commentaries)Derek Kidner · Paid · evangelical

    Concise, theologically rich, and wonderfully accessible — the best place to start on the Psalms.

Pastoral

  • SermonChuck Smith — C2000 SeriesChuck Smith · Free · evangelical

    Free verse-by-verse audio through the entire Bible from the founder of Calvary Chapel.

Commentaries & study tools

  • VideoBibleProject — Psalms videosBibleProject · Lay · Free · evangelical

    Free animated overview and word-study videos for this book.

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  • CommentaryEnduring Word — Psalms 38David Guzik · Lay · Free · evangelical

    Readable, verse-by-verse exposition of the whole chapter.

  • CommentaryMatthew Henry on PsalmsMatthew Henry · Pastoral · Free · evangelical

    The beloved Puritan exposition of this whole book — warm, devotional, and verse by verse (free, CCEL).

  • ReferenceBlue Letter Bible — Psalms 38Blue Letter Bible · Seminary · Free

    Interlinear, lexicon, and study tools across the chapter.

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