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Psalms 38

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Part of Book I📖 Psalms introduction

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1A Psalm of David, for remembrance. O LORD, do not rebuke me in Your anger or discipline me in Your wrath. ✦ 2For Your arrows have pierced me deeply, and Your hand has pressed down on me. ✦ 3There is no soundness in my body because of Your anger; there is no rest in my bones because of my sin. ✦ 4For my iniquities have overwhelmed me; they are a burden too heavy to bear. ✦ 5My wounds are foul and festering because of my sinful folly. ✦ 6I am bent and brought low; all day long I go about mourning. ✦ 7For my loins are full of burning pain, and no soundness remains in my body. ✦ 8I am numb and badly crushed; I groan in anguish of heart. ✦ 9O Lord, my every desire is before You; my groaning is not hidden from You. ✦ 10My heart pounds, my strength fails, and even the light of my eyes has faded. ✦ 11My beloved and friends shun my disease, and my kinsmen stand at a distance. ✦ 12Those who seek my life lay snares; those who wish me harm speak destruction, plotting deceit all day long. ✦ 13But like a deaf man, I do not hear; and like a mute man, I do not open my mouth. ✦ 14I am like a man who cannot hear, whose mouth offers no reply. ✦ 15I wait for You, O LORD; You will answer, O Lord my God. ✦ 16For I said, “Let them not gloat over me—those who taunt me when my foot slips.” ✦ 17For I am ready to fall, and my pain is ever with me. ✦ 18Yes, I confess my iniquity; I am troubled by my sin. ✦ 19Many are my enemies without cause, and many hate me without reason. ✦ 20Those who repay my good with evil attack me for pursuing the good. ✦ 21Do not forsake me, O LORD; be not far from me, O my God. ✦ 22Come quickly to help me, O Lord my Savior. ✦

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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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