Psalms 38:2
1 O LORD, do not rebuke me in Your anger or discipline me in Your wrath.
For Your arrows have pierced me deeply, and Your hand has pressed down on me.
3 There is no soundness in my body because of Your anger; there is no rest in my bones because of my sin.
4 For my iniquities have overwhelmed me; they are a burden too heavy to bear.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- For Your arrows have pierced me deeply, and Your hand has pressed down on me.
- KJV
- For thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand presseth me sore.
- WEB
- For your arrows have pierced me, your hand presses hard on me.
- ASV
- For thine arrows stick fast in me, And thy hand presseth me sore.
- DARBY
- For thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand cometh down upon me.
- BLB
- For Your arrows descend into me, and Your hand comes down on me.
- ÅB
- For pilene dine har trengt inn i meg,
og hånden din har lagt seg tungt på meg. - OTB
- For dine piler har truffet meg dypt,
Og din hånd har tynget tungt på meg. - B1930
- For dine piler har rammet mig, og din hånd er falt tungt på mig.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Job 6:4
For the arrows of the Almighty have pierced me; my spirit drinks in their poison; the terrors of God are arrayed against me.
Read in contextPsalms 32:4
For day and night Your hand was heavy upon me; my strength was drained as in the summer heat. Selah
Read in context1 Samuel 5:6
Now the hand of the LORD was heavy on the people of Ashdod and its vicinity, ravaging them and afflicting them with tumors.
Read in contextDeuteronomy 2:15
Indeed, the LORD’s hand was against them, to eliminate them from the camp, until they had all perished.
Read in contextLamentations 3:12
He bent His bow and set me as the target for His arrow.
Read in contextPsalms 39:10–11
Remove Your scourge from me; I am perishing by the force of Your hand.
Read in context1 Samuel 6:9
but keep watching it. If it goes up the road to its homeland, toward Beth-shemesh, it is the LORD who has brought on us this great disaster. But if it does not, then we will know that it was not His hand that punished us and that it happened by chance.”
Read in contextPsalms 21:12
For You will put them to flight when Your bow is trained upon them.
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