Psalms 38:2

There is no soundness in my flesh, because of thine anger,.... Such was the nature of the affliction the psalmist laboured under, and which he took to be an effect of the anger of God towards him,…

For thine arrows slick fast in me - See the notes at Job 6:4. The word rendered “stick fast” - נחת nâchath - means properly to go or come down; to descend; and the literal idea here would be, “thine…

The title of this psalm is very observable; it is a psalm to bring to remembrance; the 70th psalm, which was likewise penned in a day of affliction, is so entitled. It is designed, 1. To bring to his…

God's -arrows" are His judgements in general (Psa 7:12: Deu 32:23); here in particular pain and sickness (Job 6:4; Job 16:12-13; Lam 3:12-13). Blow after blow from God's -hand" (Psa 32:4; Psa 39:10)…