“For I am ready to halt, and my sorrow is continually before me.”
The psalmist describes how he is on the verge of falling and his pain is constantly with him. The acknowledgment of the constant pressure of affliction emphasizes the unrelenting nature of the suffering. This verse conveys the exhaustion and despair that comes from unceasing pain.
Church Fathers on Psalms 38:17
A psalm to David himself, on the remembrance of the Sabbath. 1. What does this recollection of the Sabbath mean? What is this Sabbath? For it is with groaning that he “calls it to recollection.” You have both heard already when the Psalm was read, and you will now hear it when we shall go over it, how great is his groaning, his mourning, his tears, his misery. But happy he who is wretched after this manner! Whence the Lord also in the Gospel Matthew 5:4 called some who mourn…
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