“Make haste to help me, O Lord my salvation.”
The psalm concludes with the appeal 'Make haste to help me, O Lord, my salvation.' The final plea for help emphasizes the urgency and the continued trust that God is the psalmist's salvation. The appeal for haste suggests that the psalmist has reached the limit of his endurance and cannot wait. The psalm ends not with resolution but with the continued appeal for divine intervention. The concluding verses establish that despite the acknowledgment of sin and the suffering it has produced, the psalmist's ultimate hope and expectation rest entirely with God.
Church Fathers on Psalms 38:22
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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