Salmos 38:1-10

1 Ó Senhor, não me repreendas na tua ira, nem me castigues no teu furor.

2 Porque as tuas flechas se cravaram em mim, e sobre mim a tua mão pesou.

3 Não há coisa sã na minha carne, por causa da tua cólera; nem há saúde nos meus ossos, por causa do meu pecado.

4 Pois já as minhas iniqüidades submergem a minha cabeça; como carga pesada excedem as minhas forças.

5 As minhas chagas se tornam fétidas e purulentas, por causa da minha loucura.

6 Estou encurvado, estou muito abatido, ando lamentando o dia todo.

7 Pois os meus lombos estão cheios de ardor, e não há coisa sã na minha carne.

8 Estou gasto e muito esmagado; dou rugidos por causa do desassossego do meu coração.

9 Senhor, diante de ti está todo o meu desejo, e o meu suspirar não te é oculto.

10 O meu coração está agitado; a minha força me falta; quanto � luz dos meus olhos, até essa me deixou.

Salmos 38:1-10 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.