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Psalms 38:11

King James Version (KJV)

“In our prayers we talk to God, in our Bible study God talks to us, and we had better let God do most of the talking.”
— D.L. Moody

Scripture focus

My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my sore; and my kinsmen stand afar off.

Psalms 38:11 — KJV

Commentary

Commentary on Psalms 38:11

Theological / Devotional

My lovers. Compare Ps. 31:11. They are unwilling to come near the sick man, probably from fear of contagion (see Job 19:13–20). Perhaps this estrangement was one of the arrows of v. 2.

Sore. Heb. nega‘, “stroke,” “plague,” used of a calamity or judgment (see Gen. 12:17; Ex. 11:1).

Here the psalmist turns from the suffering that arises from his own state of body and mind to the suffering that is aggravated by the conduct of his friends who had deserted him and his enemies who were plotting against him.

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