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Brenton's Septuagint

Psalms 38:2

For thy weapons are fixed in me, and thou hast pressed thy hand heavily upon 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.
Geneva Bible (1587)
For thine arrowes haue light vpon me, and thine hand lyeth vpon 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.
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 O Lord, rebuke me not in thy wrath, neither chasten me in thine anger. 2 For thy weapons are fixed in me, and thou hast pressed thy hand heavily upon me. 3 For there is no health in my flesh because of thine anger; there is no peace to my bones because of my sins. 4 For my transgressions have gone over mine head: they have pressed heavily upon me like a weighty burden. 5 My bruises have become noisome and corrupt, because of my foolishness. 6 I have been wretched and bowed down continually: I went with a mourning countenance all the day. 7 For my soul is filled with mockings; and there is no health in my flesh. 8 I have been afflicted and brought down exceedingly: I have roared for the groaning of my heart. 9 But all my desire is before thee; and my groaning is not hidden from thee. 10 My heart is troubled, my strength has failed me; and the light of mine eyes is not with me.

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
For God knew that in whatever day ye should eat of it your eyes would be opened, and ye would be as gods, knowing good and evil.
Genesis 6:2
And it came to pass when men began to be numerous upon the earth, and daughters were born to them,
Genesis 6:4
And the Lord God said, My Spirit shall certainly not remain among these men for ever, because they are flesh, but their days shall be an hundred and twenty years.
Genesis 24:3
and I will adjure thee by the Lord the God of heaven, and the God of the earth, that thou take not a wife for my son Isaac from the daughters of the Chananites, with whom I dwell, in the midst of them.
Genesis 34:2
And Sychem the son of Emmor the Evite, the ruler of the land, saw her, and took her and lay with her, and humbled her.
Genesis 46:12
And the sons of Judas; Er, and Aunan, and Selom, and Phares, and Zara: and Er and Aunan died in the land of Chanaan.
Judges 14:2
And he went up and told his father and his mother, and said, I have seen a woman in Thamnatha of the daughters of the Phylistines; and now take her to me for a wife.
Judges 16:1
And Sampson went to Gaza, and saw there a harlot, and went in to her.
2 Samuel 11:2
And it came to pass toward evening, that David arose off his couch, and walked on the roof of the king’s house, and saw from the roof a woman bathing; and the woman was very beautiful to look upon.
1 Chronicles 2:3
The sons of Juda; Er, Aunan, Selom. These three were born to him of the daughter of Sava the Chananitish woman: and Er, the first-born of Juda, was wicked before the Lord, 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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