“I am feeble and sore broken: I have roared by reason of the disquietness of my heart.”
The psalmist describes how he is faint and crushed and groans because of the tumult of his heart. The emotional and psychological dimension of the suffering surfaces: the psalmist's heart is in tumult, disturbed and overwhelmed. The groaning suggests the vocalization of the internal disturbance. This verse indicates that the psalmist's suffering encompasses both physical and emotional dimensions.
Church Fathers on Psalms 38:8
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…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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