Psalms 38

Treated in 17 passages across the library.

The verses these writers stop at

  • 38:4 My sins have closed over my head; like a heavy load, they weigh more than I can bear. 4
  • 38:3 Nothing in my body is healthy, because of your fury; nothing in my bones is whole, because of my sin. 3
  • 38:5 My sores are foul and rotting, all because of my own foolishness. 2
  • 38:9 Lord, you see everything I long for; not one of my sighs escapes you. 2
  • 38:21 Do not abandon me, LORD; my God, do not stay far from me. 2
  • 38:6 I am bent over, bowed down completely; I spend the whole day going about in grief. 1
  • 38:8 I have gone numb and am crushed to the core; my heart groans, and I cry out aloud. 1
  • 38:18 I openly admit my guilt; my sin weighs on me with dread. 1
  • 38:20 Those who return evil for kindness act as my accusers, because I go after what is good. 1

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Where it is preached

  1. The Mortification of Sin in Believers · John Owen

    The usefulness of mortification to the vigour of our spiritual lives cites Ps. xxxviii. 3

    …of the contrary — The desperate effects of any unmortified lust; it weakens the soul, Ps. xxxviii. 3, 8, sundry ways, and darkens it — All graces improved by the mortification of sin — The…

  2. The Mortification of Sin in Believers · John Owen

    The necessity of mortification: the duty of the best believers cites Ps. xxxviii. 3–5

    …the bones of the soul, Ps. xxxi. 10, li. 8, and makes a man weak, sick, and ready to die, Ps. xxxviii. 3–5, so that he cannot look up, Ps. xl. 12, Isa. xxxiii. 24; and when poor creatures will…

  3. The Mortification of Sin in Believers · John Owen

    Consider the dangerous symptoms of any lust cites Ps. xxxviii. 5

    …for many days? Thy lust hath a dangerous symptom. So was the case with David: Ps. xxxviii. 5, “My wounds stink and are corrupt because of my foolishness.” When a lust hath lain long…

  4. The Pilgrim's Progress · John Bunyan

    The First Stage cites Psalm 38:4

    …own house, a book in his hand, and a great burden upon his back. Isa 64:6; Luke 14:33; Psalm 38:4. I looked and saw him open the book, and read therein; and as he read, he wept and…

  5. The Key Teachings of John Bunyan · Ochorus Originals

    The Burden and the Book cites PSALM 38:4

    …mine iniquities are gone over mine head: as an heavy burden they are too heavy for me. PSALM 38:4 The Pilgrim’s Progress does not begin with a sunrise or a birth or a call. It begins with…

  6. All Things for Good · Thomas Watson

    The best things work for good to the godly cites Psalm xxxviii. 20

    …with enemies. “They are mine adversaries, because I follow the thing that is good” (Psalm xxxviii. 20). Well, the angels will shortly give God’s people a writ of ease, and set them free from…

  7. The Pilgrim's Progress · John Bunyan

    The Fifth Stage cites Psa. 38:18

    …in Jesus Christ. This sight and sense of things worketh in him sorrow and shame for sin. Psa. 38:18; Jer. 31:19; John 16:8; Rom. 7:24; Mark 16:16; Gal. 2:16; Rev. 1:6. He findeth, moreover…

  8. The Key Teachings of John Owen · Ochorus Originals

    The Marks of a Dangerous Sin cites PSALM 38:5

    …will always gather strength.” My wounds stink and are corrupt because of my foolishness. PSALM 38:5 The second is the heart’s secret pleading for peace while the sin remains. Owen describes…

  9. The Pilgrim’s Progress (For Teens) · John Bunyan

    The Burden and the Wicket Gate cites Psalm 38:4

    …my iniquities have gone over my head; like a heavy burden, they are too heavy for me.” — Psalm 38:4 (ESV) The story opens on a man in rags, standing in a field with a book open in his hands…

  10. Institutes of the Christian Religion · John Calvin

    Book 3, Chapter 4 — Penitence, as Explained in the Sophistical Jargon of the Schoolmen, Widely Different from the Purity Required by the Gospel cites Ps. 38:4

    …“Mine iniquities are gone over my head: as a heavy burden they are too heavy for me,” (Ps. 38:4). He knew how deep was the abyss of our sins, how numerous the forms of wickedness, how…

  11. Morning by Morning · Charles H. Spurgeon

    May cites Psalm 38:21

    …always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit.” May 25 “Forsake me not, O Lord.” (Psalm 38:21) Frequently we pray that God would not forsake us in the hour of trial and temptation…

  12. Evening by Evening · Charles H. Spurgeon

    June cites Psalm 38:21

    …he is called to it—a holy life. June 13 (Proverbs 30:8) “O my God, be not far from me.” (—Psalm 38:21) Here we have two great lessons—what to deprecate and what to supplicate. The happiest…

  13. The Saint and His Saviour · Charles H. Spurgeon

    Faithful Wounds cites Ps. xxxviii. 8

    …of brimstone, doth kindle it.”t a Mic. ii. 18. b Ps. cii. 6, 10; lv. 4. c Ps. cvii. 18. d Ps. xxxviii. 8. e Job xx. 3, 21, 22, &c. f De Lamiis, lib. iii. c. 7. g Deut. xxviii. 65, 66. h Prov.…

  14. The Saint and His Saviour · Charles H. Spurgeon

    The Causes of Apparent Desertion cites Ps. xxxviii. 3

    …m Herbert. n Job xix. 11. o Ps. xc. 8. p Ps. li. 3. q Lam. i. 14. r Job xiii. 26. s Ps. xxxviii. 3, 5, 7. t Ps. xxii. 14. u Ps. cii. 3. v Ps. xxxii. 4. w Isa. lix. 11, 12. x Job vii. 18. y…

  15. The Bruised Reed · Richard Sibbes

    Set upon Duties notwithstanding Weaknesses cites Psalm xxxviii. 9

    …groans, Rom. viii. 26, which are not hid from God. My groanings are not hid from thee, Psalm xxxviii. 9. God can pick sense out of a confused prayer. These desires cry louder in his ears, than…

  16. A Body of Divinity · Thomas Watson

    The Knowledge of God cites Psa 38:9

    …into thy closet, and prayest to thy Father in secret; he hears every sigh and groan. Psa 38:9. ‘My groaning is not hid from thee.’ Thou waterest the seed of thy prayer with tears, God…

  17. A Body of Divinity · Thomas Watson

    Peace cites Psa 38:6

    …my soul.’ Psa 25:1: Time was when David’s soul was bowed down. ‘I am bowed down greatly.’ Psa 38:6. Now the case is altered he will lift up his soul to God in a way of triumph. Whence was…