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Psalms 38:17
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For I am about to fall,and my pain is constantly with me.
For I am ready to fall. My pain is continually before me.
For I am ready to halt, and my sorrow is continually before me.
For I am ready to fall, and my pain is ever before me.
I am about to die, and I cannot forget my pain.
For I am about to stumble, and I am in constant pain.
For I am ready to fall; My sorrow is continually before me.
For I am ready to fall, And my sorrow is continually before me.
For I am ready to fall. My pain is continually before me.
Surely I am ready to halte, and my sorow is euer before me.
For I am ready to fall,And my sorrow is continually before me.
For I am ready to fall, and my pain is ever with me.
I am about to collapse from constant pain.
I said, "Don't let them gloat over me or boast against me when my foot slips."
For I am ready to halt, and my pain is continually before me.
I know I am guilty of doing wrong. I cannot forget my pain.
I am prepared to suffer, and my sorrow is continually with me.
I am about to fall and am in constant pain.
For I am ready to stumble, and my pain is before me continually.
For I am ready to fall and my pain is before me always.
I am redy to suffre trouble, and my heuynesse is euer in my sight.
For I am ready to fall, And my sorrow is continually before me.
My feet are near to falling, and my sorrow is ever before me.
For I said: 'Lest they rejoice over me; when my foot slippeth, they magnify themselves against me.'
For I am ready to halt, and my sorrow is continually before me.
Because I am disposed to a haltyng: and my sorowe is euer in my syght.
For I am ready for plagues, and my grief is continually before me.
For I am ready to halt, and my sorrow is continually before me.
For Y am redi to betyngis; and my sorewe is euere in my siyt.
For I am ready to fall, And my sorrow is continually before me.
For I [am] ready to halt, and my sorrow [is] continually before me.
For I am ready to fall, And my sorrow is continually before me.
I am on the verge of collapse, facing constant pain.
For I am ready to fall. And my sorrow is always with me.
For, I, to halt, am ready, and, my pain, is before me continually;
(37-18) For I am ready for scourges: and my sorrow is continually before me.
For I am ready to fall, and my pain is ever with me.
For I am ready to halt, And my pain [is] before me continually.
I'm on the edge of losing it— the pain in my gut keeps burning. I'm ready to tell my story of failure, I'm no longer smug in my sin. My enemies are alive and in action, a lynch mob after my neck. I give out good and get back evil from God-haters who can't stand a God-lover.
For I am ready to fall, And my sorrow is continually before me.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
to halt: Heb. for halting, Psalms 35:15, *marg. Micah 4:6, Micah 4:7
sorrow: Psalms 38:6, Psalms 6:6, Psalms 77:2, Psalms 77:3, Isaiah 53:3-5
Reciprocal: Genesis 32:31 - he halted Psalms 13:2 - sorrow
Cross-References
When Judah sent the kid by his friend the Adullamite, to recover the pledge from the woman, he could not find her.
About three months later Judah was told, "Your daughter-in-law Tamar has played the whore; moreover she is pregnant as a result of whoredom." And Judah said, "Bring her out, and let her be burned."
As she was being brought out, she sent word to her father-in-law, "It was the owner of these who made me pregnant." And she said, "Take note, please, whose these are, the signet and the cord and the staff."
Take the garment of one who has given surety for a stranger; seize the pledge given as surety for foreigners.
Gifts are given to all whores; but you gave your gifts to all your lovers, bribing them to come to you from all around for your whorings.
And his master commended the dishonest manager because he had acted shrewdly; for the children of this age are more shrewd in dealing with their own generation than are the children of light.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
For I [am] ready to halt,.... Meaning either that there was a proneness in him to sin; see Jeremiah 20:10; or that he was subject to affliction and adversity, as the same word is rendered in Psalms 35:15; and the words are either a reason and argument used with the Lord, to hear and keep his foot from slipping, that so his enemies might not rejoice over him, and magnify themselves against him; as they would do should he fall into sin or into any calamity, both which he was liable to: or they are a reason why he was so calm and quiet under the ill usage he met with from friends and enemies, because he was "ready for halting", or "prepared" o for it; he considered that he was born for trouble and adversity; that God had appointed him to it, and it was appointed for him, and therefore he was quiet under it; see Job 5:6; he was prepared to meet it; he expected it, it being the common lot of God's people; and therefore when it came upon him it was no strange thing to him. The Septuagint version, and those that follow that, render the words, "I am ready for scourges"; and Jerom applies them to Christ, who was ready to undergo scourges, sufferings, and death itself, for his people;
and my sorrow [is] continually before me; that is, for his sin, which was ever before him, stared him in the face, lay heavy on his conscience, and appeared very terrible and loathsome to him; his sorrow for it was without intermission, and was a godly sorrow, a sorrow for sin, as committed against a God of love, grace, and mercy: or he may mean, that his affliction, which was grievous to him, was continually upon him night and day: our Lord himself, David's antitype, was a man of sorrows all his days.
o נכון V. L. Pagninus, Montanus, Cocceius, Gejerus, Michaelis.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
For I am ready to halt - Margin, as in Hebrew, “for halting.” The word from which the word used here is derived means properly to lean on one side, and then to halt or limp. The meaning here is, that he was like one who was limping along, and who was ready to fall; that is, in the case here referred to, he felt that his strength was almost gone, and that he was in continual danger of falling into sin, or sinking under his accumulated burdens, and of thus giving occasion for all that his enemies said of him, or occasion for their triumphing over him. Men often have this feeling - that their sorrows are so great that they cannot hope to hold out much longer, and that if God does not interpose they must fall.
And my sorrow is continually before me - That is, my grief or suffering is unintermitted. Probably the reference here is particularly to that which “caused” his grief, or which was the source of his trouble - his sin. The fact that he was a sinner was never absent from his mind; that was the source of all his trouble; that was what so pressed upon him that it was likely to crush him to the dust.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Psalms 38:17. For I am ready to halt — Literally, I am prepared to halt. So completely infirm is my soul, that it is impossible for me to take one right step in the way of righteousness, unless strengthened by thee.
