Psalms 38:2
1 O LORD, rebuke me not in thy wrath: neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure.
For thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand presseth me sore.
3 There is no soundness in my flesh because of thine anger; neither is there any rest in my bones because of my sin.
4 For mine iniquities are gone over mine head: as an heavy burden they are too heavy for me.
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 are within me, the poison whereof drinketh up my spirit: the terrors of God do set themselves in array against me.
Read in contextPsalms 32:4
For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: my moisture is turned into the drought of summer. Selah.
Read in context1 Samuel 5:6
But the hand of the LORD was heavy upon them of Ashdod, and he destroyed them, and smote them with emerods, even Ashdod and the coasts thereof.
Read in contextDeuteronomy 2:15
For indeed the hand of the LORD was against them, to destroy them from among the host, until they were consumed.
Read in contextLamentations 3:12
He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.
Read in contextPsalms 39:10–11
Remove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of thine hand.
Read in context1 Samuel 6:9
And see, if it goeth up by the way of his own coast to Beth-shemesh, then he hath done us this great evil: but if not, then we shall know that it is not his hand that smote us; it was a chance that happened to us.
Read in contextPsalms 21:12
Therefore shalt thou make them turn their back, when thou shalt make ready thine arrows upon thy strings against the face of them.
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