O LORD, rebuke me not in your wrath: neither chasten me in your hot displeasure.
All Commentaries on Psalms 38:1 Go To Psalms 38
George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
For a remembrance, viz., of our miseries and sins; and to be sung on the sabbath-day. (Challoner)
This sabbath might also allude to the indolent rest which occasioned the fall of David, 2 Kings xi. 1. (Haydock)
Hebrew mentions not the sabbath; and it is not known (Calmet) why the Septuagint made this addition. The prophet may have Christ suffering for our sins in view, (Berthier) though he probably composed this psalm, when he was afflicted with an illness after this fall. (Rab. Muis) (Calmet)
It contains an excellent model for penitents, (Calmet) to enable them to regain peace of conscience, (St. Gregory) and paradise, from which they are banished by sin. (St. Augustine)
This remembrance (Worthington) is most essential. (Haydock)
