Psalms 38:1
O LORD, rebuke me not in thy wrath: neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure.
Revised Version 1895
In The King James Version
O LORD, rebuke me not in thy wrath: neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure.
In Context
2For thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand presseth me sore.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 9:19For I was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure, wherewith the LORD was wroth against you to destroy you. But the LORD hearkened unto me that time also.
Psalms 70:1Make haste, O God, to deliver me; make haste to help me, O LORD.
Psalms 88:15I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up: while I suffer thy terrors I am distracted.
Isaiah 54:8In overflowing wrath I hid my face from thee for a moment; but with everlasting kindness will I have mercy on thee, saith the LORD thy redeemer.
Jeremiah 30:11For I am with thee, saith the LORD, to save thee: for I will make a full end of all the nations whither I have scattered thee, but I will not make a full end of thee; but I will correct thee with judgment, and will in no wise leave thee unpunished.
Hebrews 12:5and ye have forgotten the exhortation, which reasoneth with you as with sons, My son, regard not lightly the chastening of the Lord, Nor faint when thou art reproved of 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 →