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Psalms 38:2
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For your arrows have sunk into me,and your hand has pressed down on me.
For your arrows have pierced me, Your hand presses hard on me.
For thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand presseth me sore.
For your arrows have sunk into me, and your hand has come down on me.
Your arrows have wounded me, and your hand has come down on me.
For your arrows pierce me, and your hand presses me down.
For Your arrows have sunk into me and penetrate deeply, And Your hand has pressed down on me and greatly disciplined me.
For Your arrows have sunk deep into me, And Your hand has pressed down on me.
For your arrows have pierced me, Your hand presses hard on me.
For thine arrowes haue light vpon me, and thine hand lyeth vpon me.
For Your arrows have pressed deep into me,And Your hand has pressed down upon me.
For Your arrows have pierced me deeply, and Your hand has pressed down on me.
Adonai , don't rebuke me when you are angry or discipline me when you are enraged,
For thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand cometh down upon me.
You have hurt me. You punished me and hurt me deeply.
For thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand rests heavily upon me.
You have wounded me with your arrows; you have struck me down.
For your arrows have sunk into me, and your hand has pressed down on me.
For Your arrows sink in me, and Your hand presses heavily on me.
For thy arowes stick fast in me, and thy honde presseth me sore.
For thine arrows stick fast in me, And thy hand presseth me sore.
For your arrows have gone into my flesh, and I am crushed under the weight of your hand.
O LORD, rebuke me not in Thine anger; neither chasten me in Thy wrath.
For thine arrowes sticke fast in me; and thy hand presseth me sore.
For thyne arrowes sticke fast in me: and thy hande presseth me sore.
For thy weapons are fixed in me, and thou hast pressed thy hand heavily upon me.
For thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand presseth me sore.
For thin arowis ben fitchid in me; and thou hast confermed thin hond on me.
For your arrows stick fast in me, And your hand presses me intensely.
For thy arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand falleth heavy upon me.
For Your arrows pierce me deeply, And Your hand presses me down.
Your arrows have struck deep, and your blows are crushing me.
For Your arrows have cut deep into me. And Your hand has come down upon me.
For your arrows have sunk into me, and your hand has come down on me.
For, thine arrows, have sunk down into me, and thy hand, presseth heavily upon me.
(37-3) For thy arrows are fastened in me: and thy hand hath been strong upon me.
For thy arrows have sunk into me, and thy hand has come down on me.
For Thine arrows have come down on me, And Thou lettest down upon me Thy hand.
For Your arrows have sunk deep into me, And Your hand has pressed down on me.
Contextual Overview
(A psalm by David to be used when an offering is made.)
When you are angry, Lord , please don't punish me or even correct me. 2 You shot me with your arrows, and you struck me with your hand. 3 My body hurts all over because of your anger. Even my bones are in pain, and my sins 4 are so heavy that I am crushed. 5 Because of my foolishness, I am covered with sores that stink and spread. 6 My body is twisted and bent, and I groan all day long. 7 Fever has my back in flames, and I hurt all over. 8 I am worn out and weak, moaning and in distress. 9 You, Lord, know every one of my deepest desires, and my noisy groans are no secret to you. 10 My heart is beating fast. I feel weak all over, and my eyes are red.Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
thine: Psalms 21:12, Psalms 64:7, Job 6:4, Lamentations 3:12
thy hand: Psalms 32:4, Psalms 39:10, Psalms 39:11, Deuteronomy 2:15, Ruth 1:13, 1 Samuel 5:6, 1 Samuel 5:11, 1 Samuel 6:9
Reciprocal: Job 2:5 - put forth Job 19:21 - the hand Job 30:17 - My bones Psalms 45:5 - Thine Psalms 88:16 - fierce Proverbs 18:14 - but Lamentations 3:4 - My flesh Acts 13:11 - hand Romans 7:24 - wretched
Cross-References
The woman stared at the fruit. It looked beautiful and tasty. She wanted the wisdom that it would give her, and she ate some of the fruit. Her husband was there with her, so she gave some to him, and he ate it too.
The children of the supernatural beings who had married these women became famous heroes and warriors. They were called Nephilim and lived on the earth at that time and even later.
in the name of the Lord , who rules heaven and earth, that you won't choose a wife for my son Isaac from the people here in the land of Canaan.
She was seen by Hamor's son Shechem, the leader of the Hivites, and he grabbed her and raped her.
When he got back home, he told his parents, "I saw a Philistine woman in Timnah, and I want to marry her. Get her for me!"
One day while Samson was in Gaza, he saw a prostitute and went to her house to spend the night.
Late one afternoon, David got up from a nap and was walking around on the flat roof of his palace. A beautiful young woman was down below in her courtyard, bathing as her religion required. David happened to see her, and he sent one of his servants to find out who she was. The servant came back and told David, "Her name is Bathsheba. She is the daughter of Eliam, and she is the wife of Uriah the Hittite." David sent some messengers to bring her to his palace. She came to him, and he slept with her. Then she returned home.
Judah and his Canaanite wife Bathshua had three sons: Er, Onan, and Shelah. But the Lord had Er put to death, because he disobeyed and did what the Lord hated.
Stay away from people who are not followers of the Lord! Can someone who is good get along with someone who is evil? Are light and darkness the same?
Gill's Notes on the Bible
For thine arrows stick fast in me,.... Meaning either words with which as a father the Lord rebuked him; and which were sharp and cutting, entered into him and abode with him, and gave him much pain and uneasiness; and by which he concluded that his rebukes were in wrath and hot displeasure; such as those in 2 Samuel 12:11; so the words of men are compared to arrows, Psalms 57:4 or outward afflictions, attended with inward trouble of soul; for as judgments are the arrows of God, such as famine, pestilence, c. Ezekiel 5:16
Deuteronomy 32:21 so the chastening dispensations of Providence, under which the people of God themselves are, are so called, because they oftentimes come swiftly, suddenly, and at unawares, and are very pungent and distressing; and sometimes stick fast and continue long, by reason of which they are inwardly wounded, and conceive of God as sorely displeased with them; see Job 6:4;
and thy hand presseth me sore; the afflicting hand of God, which lay heavy upon him; and is a mighty hand when laid on such worms as mortal sinful men are, who cannot bear up under it, unless they have divine supports; see Job 19:21. This is by some supposed to be some bodily disease inflicted on him; some have thought of the leprosy, which was a stroke from the hand of God; but this is not likely, since he must have been deposed and shut up; the Jews indeed say e that he was a leper six months, and that the divine Presence was taken from him; a late learned man f thinks it was the smallpox, from the unsoundness of his flesh, the soreness of the disease, the stench of it, temporary blindness, and his friends standing aloof from him; though perhaps no other than affliction of mired for sin, comparable to the disease described, is meant.
e In R. Obadiah in loc. f De Laney's Life of King David, vol. 2. p. 146.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
For thine arrows stick fast in me - See the notes at Job 6:4. The word rendered “stick fast” - נחת nâchath - means properly to go or come down; to descend; and the literal idea here would be, “thine arrows come down upon me.” It is not so much the idea of their “sticking fast” when in the wound or flesh; it is that they come down upon one, and pierce him. The meaning is, that he was afflicted “as if” God had wounded him with arrows - arrows which pierced deep in his flesh. Compare the notes at Psalms 45:5. The allusion is to the disease with which he was afflicted.
And thy hand presseth me sore - The same word is used here which in the former part of the verse is rendered “stick fast.” The idea is, that the hand of God had “descended” or “come down” upon him, prostrating his strength, and laying him on a bed of pain.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Psalms 38:2. Thine arrows stick fast in me — This no doubt, refers to the acute pains which he endured; each appearing to his feeling as if an arrow were shot into his body.
