Psa. 3 title
Psa. 3 title
David’s prayer in Psa. 37, in which he said that the righteous would inherit the land (Psa. 37:29) and the wicked would be cut off (Psa. 37:34), was according to his natural logic, but his prayer in this psalm, in which he was compelled by God’s chastising (vv. 1, 3) to groan before God (vv. 8-9), to confess his sin (v. 3), and to declare his iniquity (vv. 4, 18), was according to God’s revelation. Cf. note Psa. 7:31.
Groaning here indicates that the psalmist had an inward burden to pray, but he did not know what to say. Hence, all he could do was groan. See note Rom. 8:262.