It is a desperate plea for God to come quickly to the speaker's aid, addressing the Lord as the speaker's salvation. It points to God as able and willing to save. In its setting in Psalm 38, it shows that conscience was active under the old dispensation even though the term conscience does not appear in the Old Testament. In that same setting, it is a prophetic picture of Christ's inner experience and struggle with the enemy, showing how He suffered when tempted.
It is a desperate plea for God to come quickly to the speaker's aid, addressing the Lord as the speaker's salvation. It points to God as able and willing to save. In its setting in Psalm 38, it shows that conscience was active under the old dispensation even though the term conscience does not appear in the Old Testament. In that same setting, it is a prophetic picture of Christ's inner experience and struggle with the enemy, showing how He suffered when tempted.