Psalms 38:1

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

A Psalm of David, to bring to remembrance. O Jehovah, rebuke me not in thy wrath; Neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

מִזְמ֖וֹר לְדָוִ֣ד לְהַזְכִּֽיר׃

Transliteration

Mizmôr for Dāwid for ləhazkîr

Grammar Details

• *Mizmôr*: masculine singular noun - psalm/song
• *Dāwid*: proper noun with prefix lamed - belonging to/for David
• *ləhazkîr*: infinitive construct with lamed prefix - to cause to remember/bring to remembrance

Word Meanings

• *Mizmôr*: psalm/song/melody
• *ləhazkîr*: to bring to remembrance/as a memorial/to make mention

Referenced Verses

• Ps 6:1 : 1 For the Chief Musician; on stringed instruments, set to the Sheminith. A Psalm of David. O Jehovah, rebuke me not in thine anger, Neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure.
• Heb 12:5-9 : 5 and ye have forgotten the exhortation which reasoneth with you as with sons, My son, regard not lightly the chastening of the Lord, Nor faint when thou art reproved of him; 6 For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, And scourgeth every son whom he receiveth. 7 It is for chastening that ye endure; God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is there whom [his] father chasteneth not? 8 But if ye are without chastening, whereof all have been made partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons. 9 Furthermore, {G3303} we had the fathers of our flesh to chasten us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live? 10 For they indeed for a few days chastened [us] as seemed good to them; but he for [our] profit, that [we] may be partakers of his holiness. 11 {G1161} {G3303} All chastening seemeth for the present to be not joyous but grievous; yet afterward it yieldeth peaceable fruit unto them that have been exercised thereby, {G1223} [even the fruit] of righteousness.
• Ps 70:1 : 1 For the Chief Musician. [A Psalm] of David; to bring to remembrance. [Make haste], O God, to deliver me; Make haste to help me, O Jehovah.
• Isa 54:8 : 8 In overflowing wrath I hid my face from thee for a moment; but with everlasting lovingkindness will I have mercy on thee, saith Jehovah thy Redeemer.
• Jer 10:24 : 24 O Jehovah, correct me, but in measure: not in thine anger, lest thou bring me to nothing.
• Jer 30:11 : 11 For I am with thee, saith Jehovah, to save thee: for I will make a full end of all the nations whither I have scattered thee, but I will not make a full end of thee; but I will correct thee in measure, and will in no wise leave thee unpunished.
• Hab 3:2 : 2 O Jehovah, I have heard the report of thee, and am afraid: O Jehovah, revive thy work in the midst of the years; In the midst of the years make it known; In wrath remember mercy.
• Ps 88:7 : 7 Thy wrath lieth hard upon me, And thou hast afflicted me with all thy waves. {H5542}
• Ps 88:15-16 : 15 I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up: While I suffer thy terrors I am distracted. 16 Thy fierce wrath is gone over me; Thy terrors have cut me off.
• Isa 27:8 : 8 In measure, when thou sendest them away, thou dost contend with them; he hath removed [them] with his rough blast in the day of the east wind.
• Deut 9:19 : 19 For I was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure, wherewith Jehovah was wroth against you to destroy you. But Jehovah hearkened unto me that time also.