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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.
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,
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.
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, asking God to remember him.
O Lord , don't rebuke me in your anger or discipline me in your rage! 2 Your arrows have struck deep, and your blows are crushing me. 3 Because of your anger, my whole body is sick; my health is broken because of my sins. 4 My guilt overwhelms me— it is a burden too heavy to bear. 5 My wounds fester and stink because of my foolish sins. 6 I am bent over and racked with pain. All day long I walk around filled with grief. 7 A raging fever burns within me, and my health is broken. 8 I am exhausted and completely crushed. My groans come from an anguished heart. 9 You know what I long for, Lord; you hear my every sigh. 10 My heart beats wildly, my strength fails, and I am going blind.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 was convinced. She saw that the tree was beautiful and its fruit looked delicious, and she wanted the wisdom it would give her. So she took some of the fruit and ate it. Then she gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it, too.
The sons of God saw the beautiful women and took any they wanted as their wives.
In those days, and for some time after, giant Nephilites lived on the earth, for whenever the sons of God had intercourse with women, they gave birth to children who became the heroes and famous warriors of ancient times.
Swear by the Lord , the God of heaven and earth, that you will not allow my son to marry one of these local Canaanite women.
But when the local prince, Shechem son of Hamor the Hivite, saw Dinah, he seized her and raped her.
The sons of Judah were Er, Onan, Shelah, Perez, and Zerah (though Er and Onan had died in the land of Canaan). The sons of Perez were Hezron and Hamul.
When he returned home, he told his father and mother, "A young Philistine woman in Timnah caught my eye. I want to marry her. Get her for me."
One day Samson went to the Philistine town of Gaza and spent the night with a prostitute.
Late one afternoon, after his midday rest, David got out of bed and was walking on the roof of the palace. As he looked out over the city, he noticed a woman of unusual beauty taking a bath.
Judah had three sons from Bathshua, a Canaanite woman. Their names were Er, Onan, and Shelah. But the Lord saw that the oldest son, Er, was a wicked man, so he killed 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.
