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Geneva Bible

Psalms 38:2

For thine arrowes haue light vpon me, and thine hand lyeth vpon me.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Afflictions and Adversities;   Arrow;   Conviction;   Remorse;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Arrows;   Diseases;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Arrow;   Psalms, the Book of;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Chastisement;   Suffering;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Pit;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Arrows;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Hand;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - English Versions;   Greek Versions of Ot;   Psalms;   Sin;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Arrows;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Psalms the book of;   Zion;  

Encyclopedias:

- Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia - Arrow;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
For your arrows have sunk into me,and your hand has pressed down on me.
Hebrew Names Version
For your arrows have pierced me, Your hand presses hard on me.
King James Version
For thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand presseth me sore.
English Standard Version
For your arrows have sunk into me, and your hand has come down on me.
New Century Version
Your arrows have wounded me, and your hand has come down on me.
New English Translation
For your arrows pierce me, and your hand presses me down.
Amplified Bible
For Your arrows have sunk into me and penetrate deeply, And Your hand has pressed down on me and greatly disciplined me.
New American Standard Bible
For Your arrows have sunk deep into me, And Your hand has pressed down on me.
World English Bible
For your arrows have pierced me, Your hand presses hard on me.
Legacy Standard Bible
For Your arrows have pressed deep into me,And Your hand has pressed down upon me.
Berean Standard Bible
For Your arrows have pierced me deeply, and Your hand has pressed down on me.
Contemporary English Version
You shot me with your arrows, and you struck me with your hand.
Complete Jewish Bible
Adonai , don't rebuke me when you are angry or discipline me when you are enraged,
Darby Translation
For thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand cometh down upon me.
Easy-to-Read Version
You have hurt me. You punished me and hurt me deeply.
George Lamsa Translation
For thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand rests heavily upon me.
Good News Translation
You have wounded me with your arrows; you have struck me down.
Lexham English Bible
For your arrows have sunk into me, and your hand has pressed down on me.
Literal Translation
For Your arrows sink in me, and Your hand presses heavily on me.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
For thy arowes stick fast in me, and thy honde presseth me sore.
American Standard Version
For thine arrows stick fast in me, And thy hand presseth me sore.
Bible in Basic English
For your arrows have gone into my flesh, and I am crushed under the weight of your hand.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
O LORD, rebuke me not in Thine anger; neither chasten me in Thy wrath.
King James Version (1611)
For thine arrowes sticke fast in me; and thy hand presseth me sore.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
For thyne arrowes sticke fast in me: and thy hande presseth me sore.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
For thy weapons are fixed in me, and thou hast pressed thy hand heavily upon me.
English Revised Version
For thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand presseth me sore.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
For thin arowis ben fitchid in me; and thou hast confermed thin hond on me.
Update Bible Version
For your arrows stick fast in me, And your hand presses me intensely.
Webster's Bible Translation
For thy arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand falleth heavy upon me.
New King James Version
For Your arrows pierce me deeply, And Your hand presses me down.
New Living Translation
Your arrows have struck deep, and your blows are crushing me.
New Life Bible
For Your arrows have cut deep into me. And Your hand has come down upon me.
New Revised Standard
For your arrows have sunk into me, and your hand has come down on me.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
For, thine arrows, have sunk down into me, and thy hand, presseth heavily upon me.
Douay-Rheims Bible
(37-3) For thy arrows are fastened in me: and thy hand hath been strong upon me.
Revised Standard Version
For thy arrows have sunk into me, and thy hand has come down on me.
Young's Literal Translation
For Thine arrows have come down on me, And Thou lettest down upon me Thy hand.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
For Your arrows have sunk deep into me, And Your hand has pressed down on me.

Contextual Overview

1 A Psalme of Dauid for remembrance. O Lorde, rebuke mee not in thine anger, neither chastise me in thy wrath. 2 For thine arrowes haue light vpon me, and thine hand lyeth vpon me. 3 There is nothing sound in my flesh, because of thine anger: neither is there rest in my bones because of my sinne. 4 For mine iniquities are gone ouer mine head, and as a weightie burden they are too heauie for me. 5 My woundes are putrified, and corrupt because of my foolishnes. 6 I am bowed, and crooked very sore: I goe mourning all the day. 7 For my reines are full of burning, and there is nothing sound in my flesh. 8 I am weakened and sore broken: I roare for the very griefe of mine heart. 9 Lorde, I powre my whole desire before thee, and my sighing is not hid from thee. 10 Mine heart panteth: my strength faileth me, and the light of mine eyes, euen they are not mine owne.

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

Genesis 3:6
So the woman (seeing that the tree was good for meate, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to get knowledge) tooke of the fruite thereof, and did eate, & gaue also to her husband with her, and he did eate.
Genesis 6:2
Then the sonnes of God sawe the daughters of men that they were faire, & they tooke them wiues of all that they liked.
Genesis 6:4
There were gyants in the earth in those dayes: yea, and after that the sonnes of God came vnto the daughters of men, and they had borne them children, these were mightie men, which in olde time were men of renoume.
Genesis 24:3
And I will make thee sweare by ye Lorde God of the heauen, and God of the earth, that thou shalt not take a wife vnto my sonne of the daughters of the Canaanites among who I dwel.
Genesis 34:2
Whome when Shechem the sonne of Hamor the Hiuite lorde of that countrey sawe, hee tooke her, and lay with her, and defiled her.
Genesis 46:12
Also the sonnes of Iudah: Er, & Onan, and Shelah, and Pharez, and Zerah: (but Er and Onan died in ye land of Canaan) And the sonnes of Pharez were Hezron and Hamul.
Judges 14:2
And he came vp and told his father and his mother and saide, I haue seene a woman in Timnath of the daughters of the Philistims: now therfore giue me her to wife.
Judges 16:1
Then went Samson to Azzah, & sawe there an harlot, and went in vnto her.
2 Samuel 11:2
And when it was euening tide, Dauid arose out of his bed, and walked vpon the roofe of the Kings palace: and from the roofe he sawe a woman washing her selfe: and the woman was very beautifull to looke vpon.
1 Chronicles 2:3
The sonnes of Iudah, Er, and Onan, and Shelah. these three were borne to him of ye daughter of Shua the Canaanite: but Er the eldest sonne of Iudah was euil in the sight of the Lorde, and he slew him.

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.


 
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