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Yahweh, don`t rebuke me in your anger, Neither discipline me in your wrath.
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A Prayer About 'How,' Not 'If'
Commentators note that David is not rejecting God's discipline but pleading about its intensity. He accepts the need for rebuke but asks that it not be delivered in 'anger' or 'hot displeasure.' This models a mature prayer that acknowledges God's right to correct His children while simultaneously appealing to His fatherly mercy and gentleness.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
O Lord, rebuke me not in your anger - as if God was rebuking him through the affliction He was bringing upon him. This is the point…
19th Century
Anglican
O Lord, rebuke me not. —Repeated with change of one word in Psalm 38:1. The sublime thought that pain and sorrow are a di…
Baptist
O LORD, rebuke me not in your anger,
"Rebuke me; it will do me good; I need it; but not in anger. Be gentle and tender with me: '
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16th Century
Protestant
The calamity that David now experienced had perhaps been inflicted by men, but he wisely considers that he has to deal with God. Those people are v…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
O Lord, rebuke me not in your anger , The Lord sometimes rebukes or reproves men by his spirit, and sometimes by his…
These verses speak the language of a heart truly humbled, of a broken and contrite spirit under great afflictions, sent to awaken conscience and mo…
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13th Century
Catholic
In the preceding psalm, David asked to be led in the way of justice because of his enemies.
Here, however, having fallen, he asks to be renew…