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CHAPTER 38
David sorrows for his sins—They rest as a disease upon him—He asks the Lord to be compassionate. |
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1 O LORD, rebuke me not in thy wrath: neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure.
2 For thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand presseth me sore. 3 There is no soundness in my flesh because of thine anger; neither is there any rest in my bones because of my sin. 4 For mine iniquities are gone over mine heada: as an heavy burden they are too heavy for me. |
4a mine iniquities are gone over mine head When one considers David's sins, one usually thinks primarily and often only of that of adultry and murder. These alone, being the second and third greatest sins are quite enough. But in view of David's comment here one might ask of what else is David guilty that would be a multitude of iniquities gone over his head? Well, leaving David's sins prior to Bathsheba as being but minor and will within the realm of mercy and forgiveness not to swell over one's head, we are left with sins post adultry and murder and we may just as well look to the 10 commandments and speak of them as well. The hiding of those greater sins certainly took David into the realm of bearing false witness as he did stive to hide his sins from others in such lies as it would take to do so. As part of is not only immediately preceding the actual event, David had coveted that which was his neighbor's. And as to theft, that was the actual taking of that which did not legally and lawfully belong to him. Thus the 5 commandments dealing with one's fellow man are broken, coventing, stealing, lying, adultry and murder. Now as to the other commandments beginning with honoring one's own father and mother which is as much a temporal as spiritual commandment as the true patriarchal order of God is the family. Here one merely needs to ask and understand as to which family of the covenant did King David cling to and pay homage to? Having lost the blessing of the covenant unto exaltation, David did but seek the peership of the temporal world and he did select Judah over Israel, though Israel had the greater claim in David. To comprehend this matter one must understand and know of David's true legal family, though Boaz acted as surrogate, it was the covenant line and the heirship of Ephraim that David ought to upheld over his bloodline linage. But he did not (See Messiah ben David ~ Messiah ben Joseph). And then taking that patriarchal linage to our one greatest ancestor, the Father of our Spirits, one may ask and jointly so, what did David do with that covenant of the fathers back to and even with God, Jehovah as well as God the Father of Spirits? David caused the situation of an illegitimate heir to the throne, not only of Israel but of God's kingdom on earth and when God needed to end the life of David's firstborn according to what David had done to anul that bastard linage, David did but act poorly, it being but his second cause of bring death upon an inocent in that it was David's act which necessitated it. These 'sins aginst God' may only be seen in light of David's own perpetual vain pleadings with God while David still held unto his 'rebelious posture' of selecting the lingage of blood over the linage of the covenant and God. In this in many ways David had chosen the pride and vainity of the world over his regard and respect unto his God the the Covenant of the Firstborn which God had placed in him. And though David held not the priesthood unto offering ordinances, each time David so took his offering before God to be given it was but a vain oblation; human vanity having become his God over God. What Sabbath Day was then holy unto David? And which of the commandments which dealt with man's relationship to God did David not brake? Truly David's sins, his iniquities had gone and continued to be 'over his head'. | |
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5 My wounds stink and are corrupt because of my foolishness.
6 I am troubled; I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long. 7 For my loins are filled with a loathsome disease: and there is no soundness in my flesh. 8 I am feeble and sore broken: I ahave roared by reason of the disquietness of my heart. |
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9 Lord, all my desire is before thee; and my groaning is not hid from thee.
10 My heart panteth, my strength faileth me: as for the light of mine aeyes, it also is gone from me. |
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11 My alovers and my friends
stand aloof from my sore; and my kinsmen stand afar off.
12 They also that seek after my life lay snares for me: and they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and imagine adeceits all the day long. |
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13 But I, as a deaf man, heard not; and I was as a dumb man that openeth not his mouth.
14 Thus I was as a man that heareth not, and in whose mouth are no reproofs. 15 For in thee, O LORD, do I hope: thou wilt hear, O Lord my God. |
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16 For I said, Hear me, lest otherwise they should rejoice over me: when my foot slippeth, they magnify themselves against me.
17 For I am ready to halt, and my sorrow is continually before me. 18 For I will adeclare mine iniquity; I will be bsorry for my sin. |
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19 But mine enemies are lively, and they are strong: and they that hate me wrongfully are multiplied.
20 They also that arender evil for good are mine adversaries; because I follow the thing that good is. |
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21 Forsake me not, O LORD: O my God, be not far from me.
22 Make haste to help me, O Lord my salvation. |
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