Verse 1

For the music director, to be accompanied by stringed instruments, according to the sheminith style; a psalm of David. LORD, do not rebuke me in your anger! Do not discipline me in your raging fury!

Referenced Verses

  • Ps 38:1 : 1 A psalm of David, written to get God’s attention. O LORD, do not continue to rebuke me in your anger! Do not continue to punish me in your raging fury!
  • 1 Chr 15:21 : 21 Mattithiah, Eliphelehu, Mikneiah, Obed-Edom, Jeiel, and Azaziah were to play the lyres according to the sheminith style, as led by the director;
  • Jer 46:28 : 28 I, the LORD, tell you not to be afraid, you descendants of Jacob, my servant, for I am with you. Though I completely destroy all the nations where I scatter you, I will not completely destroy you. I will indeed discipline you but only in due measure. I will not allow you to go entirely unpunished.”
  • 1 Cor 11:31-32 : 31 But if we examined ourselves, we would not be judged. 32 But when we are judged by the Lord, we are disciplined so that we may not be condemned with the world.
  • Ps 2:5 : 5 Then he angrily speaks to them and terrifies them in his rage, saying,
  • Ps 4:1 : 1 For the music director, to be accompanied by stringed instruments; a psalm of David. When I call out, answer me, O God who vindicates me! Though I am hemmed in, you will lead me into a wide, open place. Have mercy on me and respond to my prayer!
  • Ps 12:1 : 1 For the music director; according to the sheminith style; a psalm of David. Deliver, LORD! For the godly have disappeared; people of integrity have vanished.
  • Ps 118:18 : 18 The LORD severely punished me, but he did not hand me over to death.
  • Isa 54:9 : 9 “As far as I am concerned, this is like in Noah’s time, when I vowed that the waters of Noah’s flood would never again cover the earth. In the same way I have vowed that I will not be angry at you or shout at you.
  • Isa 57:16 : 16 For I will not be hostile forever or perpetually angry, for then man’s spirit would grow faint before me, the life-giving breath I created.
  • Jer 10:24 : 24 Correct us, LORD, but only in due measure. Do not punish us in anger or you will reduce us to nothing.