KJV King James Version
For thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand presseth me sore.
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Psalm 38:2
For thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand presseth me sore.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
For Your arrows have pierced me deeply, and Your hand has pressed down on me.
WEB World English Bible
For your arrows have pierced me, your hand presses hard on me.
ASV American Standard Version
For thine arrows stick fast in me, And thy hand presseth me sore.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
For Thine arrows have come down on me, And Thou lettest down upon me Thy hand.
Surrounding context — Psalm 38
1 A Psalm of David, to bring to remembrance. O LORD, rebuke me not in thy wrath: neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure.
2 For thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand presseth me sore.
3 [There is] no soundness in my flesh because of thine anger; neither [is there any] rest in my bones because of my sin.
4 For mine iniquities are gone over mine head: as an heavy burden they are too heavy for me.
5 My wounds stink [and] are corrupt because of my foolishness.
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Job 6:4For the arrows of the Almighty [are] within me, the poison whereof drinketh up my spirit: the terrors of God do set themselves in array against me.Psalm 32:4For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: my moisture is turned into the drought of summer. Selah.1 Samuel 5:6But the hand of the LORD was heavy upon them of Ashdod, and he destroyed them, and smote them with emerods, [even] Ashdod and the coasts thereof.Deuteronomy 2:15For indeed the hand of the LORD was against them, to destroy them from among the host, until they were consumed.Lamentations 3:12He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.1 Samuel 5:11So they sent and gathered together all the lords of the Philistines, and said, Send away the ark of the God of Israel, and let it go again to his own place, that it slay us not, and our people: for there was a deadly destruction throughout all the city; the hand of God was very heavy there.1 Samuel 6:9And see, if it goeth up by the way of his own coast to Bethshemesh, [then] he hath done us this great evil: but if not, then we shall know that [it is] not his hand [that] smote us; it [was] a chance [that] happened to us.Psalm 64:7But God shall shoot at them [with] an arrow; suddenly shall they be wounded.Psalm 21:12Therefore shalt thou make them turn their back, [when] thou shalt make ready [thine arrows] upon thy strings against the face of them.Psalm 39:10-11Remove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of thine hand.Ruth 1:13Would ye tarry for them till they were grown? would ye stay for them from having husbands? nay, my daughters; for it grieveth me much for your sakes that the hand of the LORD is gone out against me.
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