02.038. Psalm 38

Psalms 38:1-22 A Psalm of David, to bring to remembrance. This psalm appears to have been penned by David, under some remarkable distress, attended with a deep sense of sin as the procuring cause of it. Here are, (1.) David’s sorrowful complaints of God’s sore displeasure, and of the weight of his own sins, Psalms 38:1-5; of the sickness of his body, and distress of his mind, Psalms 38:6-10; of the unkindness of his friends, Psalms 38:11; and of the unprovoked injuries he received from his enemies, who were spiteful, cruel, subtile, unjust, ungrateful, impious, devilish, numerous and powerful, Psalms 38:12, Psalms 38:20. (2.) His remarkable patience and resignation under his troubles, Psalms 38:13-15. (3.) His fervent supplications to God for the mitigation of his troubles, Psalms 38:1; and for comfort and support under, and speedy deliverance from them, Psalms 38:16, Psalms 38:21-22; attended with candid and ingenuous acknowledgment of the sinful causes thereof, Psalms 38:3-5, Psalms 38:18. In all my troubles, let me search out, and by faith confess and mourn over the sinful causes of them. Let me take every distress as out of God’s hand; and call on him in the time thereof, that he may deliver me.