Psalm 38:2 “For Your arrows have pierced me deeply, and Your hand has pressed down…”

Psalm 38:2

For Your arrows have pierced me deeply, and Your hand has pressed down on me.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

For thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand presseth me sore.

World English Bible

For your arrows have pierced me, your hand presses hard on me.

American Standard Version

For thine arrows stick fast in me, And thy hand presseth me sore.

Geneva Bible 1599

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

Darby Translation

For thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand cometh down upon me.

Young's Literal Translation

For Thine arrows have come down on me, And Thou lettest down upon me Thy hand.

Bible in Basic English

For your arrows have gone into my flesh, and I am crushed under the weight of your hand.

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Cross references

“thine”

Job 6:4 Lamentations 3:12 Psalm 21:12 Psalm 64:7

Job 6:4 · BSB

For the arrows of the Almighty have pierced me; my spirit drinks in their poison; the terrors of God are arrayed against me.

Lamentations 3:12 · BSB

He bent His bow and set me as the target for His arrow.

Psalm 21:12 · BSB

For You will put them to flight when Your bow is trained upon them.

Psalm 64:7 · BSB

But God will shoot them with arrows; suddenly they will be wounded.

“thy hand”

Psalm 32:4 Deuteronomy 2:15 1 Samuel 5:6 Ruth 1:13 1 Samuel 5:11 1 Samuel 6:9

Psalm 32:4 · BSB

For day and night Your hand was heavy upon me; my strength was drained as in the summer heat. Selah

Deuteronomy 2:15 · BSB

Indeed, the LORD’s hand was against them, to eliminate them from the camp, until they had all perished.

1 Samuel 5:6 · BSB

Now the hand of the LORD was heavy on the people of Ashdod and its vicinity, ravaging them and afflicting them with tumors.

Ruth 1:13 · BSB

would you wait for them to grow up? Would you refrain from having husbands? No, my daughters, it is much more bitter for me than for you, because the hand of the LORD has gone out against me.”

1 Samuel 5:11 · BSB

Then the Ekronites called together all the rulers of the Philistines and said, “Send away the ark of the God of Israel. It must return to its place, so that it will not kill us and our people!” For a deadly confusion had…

1 Samuel 6:9 · BSB

but keep watching it. If it goes up the road to its homeland, toward Beth-shemesh, it is the LORD who has brought on us this great disaster. But if it does not, then we will know that it was not His hand that punished us…

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

1O LORD, do not rebuke me in Your anger or discipline me in Your wrath.

3There is no soundness in my body because of Your anger; there is no rest in my bones because of my sin.

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