Psalm 38:1

A Prayer of Repentance

A psalm of David. To bring to remembrance.

1 O Yahweh, do not rebuke me in your anger or chastise me in your wrath.

Psalm 38:1 Meaning and Commentary

Psalms 38:1

O Lord, rebuke me not in thy wrath: neither chasten me in thy
hot displeasure
This and the following clause are the same as in ( Psalms 6:1 ) , only instead of wrath there it is anger; (See Gill on Psalms 6:1).

Psalm 38:1 In-Context

1 O Yahweh, do not rebuke me in your anger or chastise me in your wrath.

2 For your arrows have sunk into me, and your hand has pressed down on me.

3 There is no soundness in my flesh because of your indignation. There is no health in my bones because of my sin.

4 For my iniquities have passed over my head; like a heavy burden they are too heavy for me.

5 My wounds start to stink; they rot because of my foolishness.

Footnotes

• [a] The Hebrew Bible counts the superscription as the first verse of the psalm; the English verse number is reduced by one