Psalms 38:1
LORD, don’t rebuke me in your wrath, neither chasten me in your hot displeasure.
World English Bible
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 pierced me, your hand presses hard on me.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 9:19For I was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure with which the LORD was angry against you to destroy you. But the LORD listened to me that time also.
Psalms 70:1Hurry, God, to deliver me. Come quickly to help me, LORD.
Psalms 88:15I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up. While I suffer your terrors, I am distracted.
Isaiah 54:8In overflowing wrath I hid my face from you for a moment, but with everlasting loving kindness I will have mercy on you,” says the LORD your Redeemer.
Jeremiah 30:11For I am with you, says the LORD, to save you; for I will make a full end of all the nations where I have scattered you, but I will not make a full end of you; but I will correct you in measure, and will in no way leave you unpunished.”
Hebrews 12:5You have forgotten the exhortation which reasons with you as with children, “My son, don’t take lightly the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when you are reproved by him;
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 →