Psalms — Chapter 37

NON EST SANITAS IN CARNE MEA. Lapide: Psalm 37 — penitential psalm. "There is no health in my flesh because of Thy wrath: there is no peace for my bones because of my sins." Lapide: the psalmist experiences the bodily effects of sin — not as divine punishment of a particular sin but as the general condition of fallen humanity, whose body is "subject to vanity" (Rom. 8:20). The sickness of the body points to the deeper sickness of the soul. Lapide: "a facie irae tuae" — the face of divine wrath is the terrifying prospect that the penitent faces squarely, without self-deception.