Salmos 38:8-18

8 Estoy debilitado y molido en gran manera; bramo a causa del alboroto de mi corazón

9 Señor, delante de ti están todos mis deseos; y mi suspiro no te es oculto

10 Mi corazón está acongojado, me ha dejado mi vigor; y aun la misma luz de mis ojos no está conmigo

11 Mis amigos y mis compañeros se quitaron de delante de mi plaga; y mis cercanos se pusieron lejos

12 Y los que buscaban mi alma armaron lazos; y los que procuraban mi mal hablaban calamidades, y todo el día meditaban fraudes

13 Mas yo, como si fuera sordo no oía; y estaba como un mudo, que no abre su boca

14 Fui pues como un hombre que no oye, y que en su boca no tiene reprensiones

15 Porque a ti, oh SEÑOR, he esperado; tú responderás, SEÑOR Dios mío

16 Porque dije: Que no se alegren de mí; ni cuando mi pie resbalare, se engrandezcan sobre mí

17 Porque yo estoy a punto de claudicar, y mi dolor está delante de mí continuamente

18 Por tanto denunciaré mi iniquidad; me acongojaré por mi pecado

Salmos 38:8-18 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.