Great Personal Affliction
Homilist
Psalm 38:1-22
O lord, rebuke me not in your wrath: neither chasten me in your hot displeasure.…


I. ELEMENTS OF AGGRAVATION.

1. A dread of Divine displeasure (ver. 1).

2. A crushing sense of sin (ver. 4).

3. The desertion of professed friends (ver. 11).

4. The assaults of enemies (vers. 19, 20).

II. MEANS OF RELIEF.

1. Remembrance of God's cognizance of his sufferings (ver. 9).

2. Power of self-control (ver. 13).

3. Unbounded confidence in God (ver. 15).

4. Penitential confession of sin (ver. 18).

5. Importunate appeals to heaven.

(Homilist.)



Parallel Verses
KJV: {A Psalm of David, to bring to remembrance.} O LORD, rebuke me not in thy wrath: neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure.

WEB: Yahweh, don't rebuke me in your wrath, neither chasten me in your hot displeasure.




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