Psalms 38:22

"Hurry to help me, Lord, my salvation."

Key Reflection

In Psalms 38:22, the psalmist urgently calls on God for intervention and relief, emphasizing both the immediacy of his need and the role of God as the ultimate source of salvation. This cry reflects a deep trust in God's power to deliver amidst suffering, highlighting the intimate relationship between human distress and divine rescue.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

Make haste to help me -Margin, as in Hebrew: “for my help.” This is an earnest prayer that God would come immediately to his rescue. O Lord my salvation -See the notes atPsalms 27:1. The effect, therefore, of the trials that came upon the psalmist was to lead him to cry most earnestly to God. Those sorrows led him to God. This is one of the designed effects of affliction. Trouble never accomplishes its proper effect unless it leads us to God; and anything that “will” lead us to him is a gain in the end.

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