The Bible Study Podcast, episode 379. Today, the Bible Study podcast continues the study of Psalms with Psalm 38.

Welcome to the Bible Study podcast. I'm your host, Chris Christensen. I'm hoping this will be a shorter show because you may notice I don't have a whole lot of voice today. Psalm 38 is yet another Psalm by David, and it is a petition. And it goes like this. Lord, do not rebuke me in your anger or discipline me in your wrath. Your arrows have pierced me, and your hand has come down on me.

Because of your wrath, there is no health in my body. There is no soundness in my bones because of my

sin. My guilt has overwhelmed me, like a burden, too heavy to bear. My wounds fester and are loathsome because of my sinful folly.

I am bowed down and brought very low.

All day long I go about mourning.

My back is filled with searing pain.

There is no health in my body.

I am feeble and utterly crushed.

I groan in anguish of heart.

All my longings lie open before you, Lord. My sighing is not hidden from you.

My heart pounds. My strength fails me. Even the light has gone from my eyes. So David, as we find him in this

particular psalm, is not in good shape. He is broken down. He is suffering. He is in pain.

But all of that seems to trace back to sin. All of that, he is attributing to the anger that God

has against him because of his sin. Now, it's interesting to note that in the chronicles of the

kings and in 1st and 2nd Kings and 1st and 2nd Chronicles in Samuel, we don't get that many

times the example of David's sinning. We certainly get David and Beth Sheba, but if we look in

Psalms, we see that David is often writing about sin.

Now, there are a couple different possible explanations for that. One is that David just feels

real guilty, and so he is constantly dealing with that, or that at the time in his life, when he

felt very guilty,

he rendered that into Psalms.

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