Psalm 32:1-7

1 ¡Cuán bienaventurado es aquel cuya transgresión es perdonada, cuyo pecado es cubierto!

2 ¡Cuán bienaventurado es el hombre a quien el SEÑOR no culpa de iniquidad, y en cuyo espíritu no hay engaño!

3 Mientras callé mi pecado, mi cuerpo se consumió con mi gemir durante todo el día.

4 Porque día y noche tu mano pesaba sobre mí; mi vitalidad se desvanecía con el calor del verano. (Selah)

5 Te manifesté mi pecado, y no encubrí mi iniquidad. Dije: Confesaré mis transgresiones al SEÑOR; y tú perdonaste la culpa de mi pecado. (Selah)

6 Por eso, que todo santo ore a ti en el tiempo en que puedas ser hallado; ciertamente, en la inundación de muchas aguas, no llegarán éstas a él.

7 Tú eres mi escondedero; de la angustia me preservarás; con cánticos de liberación me rodearás. (Selah)

Psalm 32:1-7 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO PSALM 32

\\<<[A Psalm], of David, Maschil>>\\. This is the first of the psalms that bears this title: some think it is the name of a musical instrument, on which this psalm was sung; others the first word of a song, to the tune of which it was sung, as Aben Ezra; some say it is so called, because it was explained by an interpreter, as Jarchi; and the Rabbins {k} say, that every psalm that is called "Maschil" was dictated by an interpreter: the Targum renders it "a good understanding"; and the word properly signifies "instruction", or "causing to understand" {l}; and it may be the apostle has some reference to this title in 1Co 14:15; It is an instructive psalm; a didascalic ode, as Junius renders it: it gives an account how the psalmist was instructed under a dispensation of Providence; and was brought to a sense of sin, and acknowledgment of it; and was favoured with a discovery of pardoning grace; and in it he takes upon him to instruct others, Ps 32:8,9, and does instruct in the doctrine of the pardon of sin by the grace of God. {k} Elias Levita in Tishbi, p. 271. {l} lykvm "erudiens", Musculus, Munster, Vatablus, Montanus; "informans", Gejerus; "an instructing psalm", Ainsworth.

Footnotes

• [a] O, mis huesos