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Selected Verse: Psalms 38:9 - Strong Concordance
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Ps 38:9 |
Strong Concordance |
Lord [0136], all my desire [08378] is before thee; and my groaning [0585] is not hid [05641] from thee. |
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King James |
Lord, all my desire is before thee; and my groaning is not hid from thee. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
| That God can hear (Rom 8:26). |
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
Lord, all my desire is before thee - That is, Thou knowest all that I would ask or that I need. This is the expression of one who felt that his only hope was in God, and that He fully understood the case. There was no need of repeating the request. He was willing to leave the whole case with God.
And my groaning is not hid from thee - My sighing; the expression of my sorrow and anguish. As God certainly heard these sighs, and as He wholly understood the case, David hoped that He would mercifully interpose in his behalf. |
| Commentary on the Old Testament, by Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch [1857-78] |
(Heb.: 38:10-15) Having thus bewailed his suffering before God, he goes on in a somewhat calmer tone: it is the calm of weariness, but also of the rescue which shows itself from afar. He has complained, but not as if it were necessary for him first of all to make God acquainted with his suffering; the Omniscient One is directly cognisant of (has directly before Him, נגד, like לנגד in Psa 18:25) every wish that his suffering extorts from him, and even his softer sighing does not escape His knowledge. The sufferer does not say this so much with the view of comforting himself with this thought, as of exciting God's compassion. Hence he even goes on to draw the piteous picture of his condition: his heart is in a state of violent rotary motion, or only of violent, quickly repeated contraction and expansion (Psychol. S. 252; tr. p. 297), that is to say, a state of violent palpitation (סחרחר, Pealal according to Ges. 55, 3). Strength of which the heart is the centre (Psa 40:13) has left him, and the light of his eyes, even of these (by attraction for גּם־הוּא, since the light of the eyes is not contrasted with anything else), is not with him, but has become lost to him by weeping, watching, and fever. Those who love him and are friendly towards him have placed themselves far from his stroke (nega`, the touch of God's hand of wrath), merely looking on (Oba 1:11), therefore, in a position hostile (Sa2 18:13) rather than friendly. מנּגד, far away, but within the range of vision, within sight, Gen 21:16; Deu 32:52. The words וּקרובי מרחק עמדוּ, which introduce a pentastich into a Psalm that is tetrastichic throughout, have the appearance of being a gloss or various reading: מנּגד = מרחק, Kg2 2:7. His enemies, however, endeavour to take advantage of his fall and helplessness, in order to give him his final death-blow. וינקּשׁוּ (with the ק dageshed)
(Note: The various reading וינקּשׁוּ in Norzi rests upon a misapprehended passage of Abulwald (Rikma, p. 166).)
describes what they have planned in consequence of the position he is in. The substance of their words is הוּות, utter destruction (vid., Psa 5:10); to this end it is מרמות, deceit upon deceit, malice upon malice, that they unceasingly hatch with heart and mouth. In the consciousness of his sin he is obliged to be silent, and, renouncing all self-help, to abandon his cause to God. Consciousness of guilt and resignation close his lips, so that he is not able, nor does he wish, to refute the false charges of his enemies; he has no תּוכחות, counter-evidence wherewith to vindicate himself. It is not to be rendered: "just as one dumb opens not his mouth;" כ is only a preposition, not a conjunction, and it is just here, in Psa 38:14, Psa 38:15, that the manifest proofs in support of this are found.
(Note: The passages brought forward by Hupfeld in support of the use of כ as a conjunction, viz., Psa 90:5; Psa 125:1; Isa 53:7; Isa 61:11, are invalid; the passage that seems most to favour it is Oba 1:16, but in this instance the expression is elliptical, כּלא being equivalent to כאשׁר לא, like ללא, Isa 65:1, = לאשׁר לא. It is only כּמו (Arab. kmâ) that can be used as a conjunction; but כ (Arab. k) is always a preposition in ancient Hebrew just as in Syriac and Arabic (vid., Fleischer in the Hallische Allgem. Lit. Zeitschr. 1843, Bd. iv. S. 117ff.). It is not until the mediaeval synagogal poetry (vid., Zunz, Synagogal-poesie des Mittelalters, S. 121, 381f.) that it is admissible to use it as a conjunction (e.g., כּמצא, when he had found), just as it also occurs in Himjaritic, according to Osiander's deciphering of the inscriptions. The verbal clause appended to the word to which this כ, instar, is prefixed is for the most part an attributive clause as above, but sometimes even a circumstantial clause (Arab. ḥâl), as in Psa 38:14; cf. Sur. lxii. 5: "as the likeness of an ass carrying books.") |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
| Lord, all my desire is before thee - I long for nothing so much as thy favor; and for this my heart is continually going out after thee. Instead of אדני Adonai, Lord, several of Dr. Kennicott's MSS. have יהוה Yehovah. |
26 [1161] Likewise [5615] the Spirit [4151] also [2532] helpeth [4878] our [2257] infirmities [769]: for [1063] we know [1492] not [3756] what [5101] we should pray for [4336] as [2526] we ought [1163]: but [235] the Spirit [4151] itself [846] maketh intercession [5241] for [5228] us [2257] with groanings [4726] which cannot be uttered [215].
14 Thus I was as a man [0376] that heareth [08085] not, and in whose mouth [06310] are no reproofs [08433].
1 I am sought [01875] of them that asked [07592] not [03808] for me; I am found [04672] of them that sought [01245] me not [03808]: I said [0559], Behold me, behold me, unto a nation [01471] that was not called [07121] by my name [08034].
16 For as ye have drunk [08354] upon my holy [06944] mountain [02022], so shall all the heathen [01471] drink [08354] continually [08548], yea, they shall drink [08354], and they shall swallow down [03886], and they shall be as though they had not [03808] been.
11 For as the earth [0776] bringeth forth [03318] her bud [06780], and as the garden [01593] causeth the things that are sown [02221] in it to spring forth [06779]; so the Lord [0136] GOD [03069] will cause righteousness [06666] and praise [08416] to spring forth [06779] before all the nations [01471].
7 He was oppressed [05065], and he was afflicted [06031], yet he opened [06605] not his mouth [06310]: he is brought [02986] as a lamb [07716] to the slaughter [02874], and as a sheep [07353] before [06440] her shearers [01494] is dumb [0481], so he openeth [06605] not his mouth [06310].
1 A Song [07892] of degrees [04609]. They that trust [0982] in the LORD [03068] shall be as mount [02022] Zion [06726], which cannot be removed [04131], but abideth [03427] for ever [05769].
5 Thou carriest them away as with a flood [02229]; they are as a sleep [08142]: in the morning [01242] they are like grass [02682] which groweth up [02498].
15 For in thee, O LORD [03068], do I hope [03176]: thou wilt hear [06030], O Lord [0136] my God [0430].
14 Thus I was as a man [0376] that heareth [08085] not, and in whose mouth [06310] are no reproofs [08433].
10 Destroy [0816] thou them, O God [0430]; let them fall [05307] by their own counsels [04156]; cast them out [05080] in the multitude [07230] of their transgressions [06588]; for they have rebelled [04784] against thee.
7 And fifty [02572] men [0376] of the sons [01121] of the prophets [05030] went [01980], and stood [05975] to view [05048] afar off [07350]: and they two [08147] stood [05975] by Jordan [03383].
52 Yet thou shalt see [07200] the land [0776] before thee; but thou shalt not go [0935] thither unto the land [0776] which I give [05414] the children [01121] of Israel [03478].
16 And she went [03212], and sat her down [03427] over against [05048] him a good way off [07368], as it were a bowshot [02909] [07198]: for she said [0559], Let me not see [07200] the death [04194] of the child [03206]. And she sat [03427] over against him, and lift up [05375] her voice [06963], and wept [01058].
13 Otherwise [0176] I should have wrought [06213] falsehood [08267] against mine own life [05315]: for there is no matter [01697] hid [03582] from the king [04428], and thou thyself wouldest have set [03320] thyself against me.
11 In the day [03117] that thou stoodest [05975] on the other side, in the day [03117] that the strangers [02114] carried away captive [07617] his forces [02428], and foreigners [05237] entered [0935] into his gates [08179], and cast [03032] lots [01486] upon Jerusalem [03389], even thou wast as one [0259] of them.
13 Be pleased [07521], O LORD [03068], to deliver [05337] me: O LORD [03068], make haste [02363] to help [05833] me.
25 With the merciful [02623] thou wilt shew thyself merciful [02616]; with an upright [08549] man [01399] thou wilt shew thyself upright [08552];