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God Knows Your Heart
Commentators emphasize that this verse is a profound source of comfort. Even when you can't form the right words and can only groan, God knows your deepest desires and hears every sigh. Scholars like Albert Barnes and Charles Spurgeon highlight that this divine awareness is not just a fact, but a 'sweet truth' that provides hope and encourages us to entrust our entire situation to Him, knowing we are fully understood.
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Psalms
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Albert Barnes
On Psalms 38:9
18th Century
Theologian
Lord, all my desire is before thee - That is, You know all that I would ask or that I need. This is the expression of one who felt …
Charles Ellicott
On Psalms 38:9
19th Century
Bishop
All my desire. —Notice the clutch at the thought of divine justice, as the clutch of a drowning man amid that sea of trouble.
Charles Spurgeon
On Psalm 38:9
19th Century
Preacher
LORD, all my desire is before you; and my groaning is not hidden from you.
What a sweet, sweet truth that is! Happy is that man, who…
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John Calvin
On Psalms 38:9
16th Century
Theologian
O Lord! thou knowest all my desire. He adds this, not so much with respect to God, as to strengthen himself in the hope of obtaining some …
John Gill
On Psalms 38:9
17th Century
Pastor
Lord, all my desire [is] before you
To be delivered from his afflictions, to have a discovery and application of par…
Matthew Henry
On Psalms 38:1–11
17th Century
Minister
Nothing will trouble the heart of a good person as much as the sense of God's anger. The way to keep the heart quiet is to keep ourselves in the lo…