Salmi 38:1-9

1 Salmo di Davide, da rammemorare SIGNORE, non correggermi nella tua indegnazione; E non castigarmi nel tuo cruccio.

2 Perciocchè le tue saette son discese in me, E la tua mano mi si è calata addosso.

3 Egli non vi è nulla di sano nella mia carne, per cagione della tua ira; Le mie ossa non hanno requie alcuna, per cagion del mio peccato.

4 Perciocchè le mie iniquità trapassano il mio capo; Sono a guisa di grave peso, son pesanti più che io non posso portare.

5 Le mie posteme putono, e colano, Per la mia follia.

6 Io son tutto travolto e piegato; Io vo attorno tuttodì vestito a bruno;

7 Perciocchè i miei fianchi son pieni d’infiammagione; E non vi è nulla di sano nella mia carne.

8 Io son tutto fiacco e trito; Io ruggisco per il fremito del mio cuore.

9 Signore, ogni mio desiderio è nel tuo cospetto; Ed i miei sospiri non ti sono occulti.

Salmi 38:1-9 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO PSALM 38

\\<>\\. This psalm was composed by David under some sore affliction, and when in great distress of mind by reason of sin, perhaps his sin with Bathsheba; and was written as a memorial of his sense of sin, of his great afflictions, and deliverance from them; and therefore is said to be "to bring to remembrance", or to refresh his memory with the said things. Kimchi and Ben Melech think the psalm was made for the sake of such as are in distress, to put them in mind and teach them how to pray. The Targum calls the psalm, ``a good remembrance concerning Israel;'' and Jarchi says it was to remember the distress of Israel before the Lord, and that it is said with respect to all Israel; though others think the word "lehazcir" is the name of a psalm tune; and Aben Ezra was of opinion that it was the first word of some pleasant poem. The Septuagint version adds, ``concerning the sabbath,'' as if it was wrote to put persons in mind of that day; whereas there is nothing in the whole psalm that has any such tendency.