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John Gill's Exposition on Psalms 38:6
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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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I am troubled, etc.] Discomposed and perplexed in mind; his thoughts were disturbed and irregular, and in the utmost confusion and distress: this trouble was not only on account of the affliction that was upon him, but chiefly because of his sin; and which was increased by the view he had of the displeasure of God, concluding he was come forth against him in wrath and fury; I am bowed down greatly; not in his body, at least not in that only, as if he was bowed together by his disorder, that he could not lift himself up; for he is said to walk in the next clause: or rather he bowed down his head as a bulrush voluntarily, and through sorrow and shame could not lift it up before the Lord; though it may chiefly design the pressure of his mind, that his soul was cast down within him, and with all his spiritual reasonings he could not erect himself; it is the Lord that raiseth up those that are bowed down in this sense; (see <194205>Psalm 42:5,6,11 145:14); I go mourning all the day long; or “I go black”, or “in black” f539; meaning either that his skin was black, through the disease upon him, and the trouble that was in him, (<183030>Job 30:30); or that he was clothed in black garments, as a token of mourning; as white garments were of joy and cheerfulness, (<210907>Ecclesiastes 9:7,8); and he was blacker still in his own apprehension, by reason of inward corruptions and outward transgressions, which appeared in a very black hue, attended with aggravating circumstances; (see <220105>Song of Solomon 1:5 <195107>Psalm 51:7).
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