Psalms 38:17 KJV — MannaFest

Psalms 38:17

For I am ready to halt, and my sorrow is continually before me.

KJV

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DBT

For I am ready to halt, and my pain is continually before me.

ASV

For I am ready to fall, And my sorrow is continually before me.

WEB

For I am ready to fall, and my pain is ever with me.

YLT

For I am ready to halt, And my pain is before me continually.

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Psalms — The canon's longest book — 150 Psalms edited into five doxology-bookended books, composed across a millennium, attributed to David, Asaph, Korah's sons, Moses, Solomon, Heman, Ethan, and anonymous voices. A ''Torah of David''; the Bible's longest continuous liturgical-devotional corpus.

Author: David principally (73 Psalms + 2 NT-cited); Asaph, Sons of Korah, Solomon, Moses, Heman, Ethan; ~50 anonymous.
Date: Composed c. 1400 BC (Mosaic Ps 90) through the post-exilic period (Ps 126 ''when the Lord turned again the captivity of Zion''). Roughly a millennium of composition; editorial compilation likely into the Persian period.

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8 verses on the floor

Psalms 6:6
I am weary with my groaning; all the night make I my bed to swim; I water my couch with my tears.
Psalms 35:15
But in mine adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together: yea, the abjects gathered themselves together against me, and I knew it not; they did tear me, and ceased not:
Micah 4:6–7
In that day, saith the Lord, will I assemble her that halteth, and I will gather her that is driven out, and her that I have afflicted;
Psalms 38:6
I am troubled; I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long.
Isaiah 53:3–5
He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.

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for he is confident the Lord--literally, "Sovereign" (to whom he was a servant), would answer his prayer (Ps 3:4; 4:1), and not permit their triumph in his partial halting, of which he was in danger.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

So here: I was ready to halt, ready to say, I have cleansed my hands in vain. His sorrow was continual: All the day long have I been plagued. ( Ps. lxxiii. 13, 14 ), and it was continually before him; he could not forbear poring upon it, and that made him almost ready to halt between religion and irreligion.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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