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The Darby Translation
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.
You shot me with your arrows, and you struck me with your hand.
Adonai , don't rebuke me when you are angry or discipline me when you are enraged,
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 of David, to bring to remembrance.
Jehovah, rebuke me not in thy wrath; neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure. 2 For thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand cometh down upon me. 3 There is no soundness in my flesh because of thine indignation; no peace in my bones, because of my sin. 4 For mine iniquities are gone over my head: as a heavy burden they are too heavy for me. 5 My wounds stink, they are corrupt, because of my foolishness. 6 I am depressed; I am bowed down beyond measure; I go mourning all the day. 7 For my loins are full of burning, and there is no soundness in my flesh. 8 I am faint and broken beyond measure; I roar by reason of the agitation of my heart. 9 Lord, all my desire is before thee, and my sighing is not hid from thee. 10 My heart throbbeth, my strength hath left me; and the light of mine eyes, it also is no more 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
And the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a pleasure for the eyes, and the tree was to be desired to give intelligence; and she took of its fruit, and ate, and gave also to her husband with her, and he ate.
that the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair, and took themselves wives of all that they chose.
In those days were the giants on the earth, and also afterwards, when the sons of God had come in to the daughters of men, and they had borne [children] to them; these were the heroes, who of old were men of renown.
and I will make thee swear by Jehovah, the God of the heavens and the God of the earth, that thou take not a wife for my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I am dwelling;
And when Shechem, the son of Hamor the Hivite, the prince of the country, saw her, he took her, and lay with her, and humbled her.
—And the sons of Judah: Er, and Onan, and Shelah, and Pherez, and Zerah; but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan. And the sons of Pherez were Hezron and Hamul.
And he went up, and told his father and his mother, and said, I have seen a woman in Timnathah of the daughters of the Philistines; and now take her for me as wife.
And Samson went to Gazah, and saw there a harlot, and went in to her.
And it came to pass at evening time that David arose from off his couch, and walked upon the roof of the king's house; and from the roof he saw a woman bathing, and the woman was very beautiful;
The sons of Judah: Er, and Onan, and Shelah: [which] three were born to him of the daughter of Shua the Canaanitess. And Er, Judah's firstborn, was wicked in the sight of Jehovah; 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.
