Psalms 38:1
Reprove me not, Lord, in your anger, and chasten me not in your wrath;
Open English Bible (US)
In The King James Version
O LORD, rebuke me not in thy wrath: neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure.
In Context
2for your arrows have sunk into me, and your hand lies heavy upon me.
Cross References
Psalms 70:1Quickly, God, deliver me, hasten to help me, Lord.
Psalms 88:15From my youth I am wretched and dying, I am numbed by the terrors I bear.
Hebrews 12:5and you have forgotten the encouraging words which are addressed to you as God’s children – ‘My child, think not lightly of the Lord’s discipline, do not despond when he rebukes you;
Matthew Henry on Psalms 38:1
This is one of the penitential psalms; it is full of grief and complaint from the beginning to the end. David's sins and his afflictions are the cause of his grief and the matter of his complaints. It should seem he was now sick and in pain, which reminded him of his sins and helped to humble him for them; he was, at the same time, deserted by his friends and persecuted by his enemies; so that the psalm is calculated for the depth of distress and a complication of calamities. He complains, I. Of God's displeasure,… Read the whole commentary →