Psalms Chapter 38 verse 2 Holy Bible
For thine arrows stick fast in me, And thy hand presseth me sore.
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For your arrows have gone into my flesh, and I am crushed under the weight of your hand.
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For thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand cometh down upon me.
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For thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand presseth me sore.
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A Psalm of David, to bring to remembrance. O LORD, rebuke me not in thy wrath: neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure.
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For your arrows have pierced me, Your hand presses hard on me.
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For Thine arrows have come down on me, And Thou lettest down upon me Thy hand.
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Psalms 38 : 2 Bible Verse Songs
Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 2. - For thine arrows stick fast in me. (On the "arrows" of the Almighty, see above, Psalm 7:13; and comp. Job 6:4; Psalm 18:14; Psalm 45:5; Psalm 64:7; Psalm 77:17, etc.) It has been maintained that by "God's arrows" only sickness is meant (Hitzig); but the contrary appears from Deuteronomy 32:23-25. Hengstenberg is right, "The arrows of the Almighty denote all the chastisements of sin depending on God." And thy hand presseth me sore. The verb used is the same in both clauses; but it is difficult to express both ideas by one term in English. Dr. Kay makes the attempt by translating, "For thine arrows have sunk deep in me; yea, thine hand sank heavily on me."
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(2) For thine arrows . . .--The same figure is used of the disease from which Job suffered (elephantiasis? Job 6:4); of famine (Ezekiel 5:16); and generally of divine judgments (Deuteronomy 32:23). By itself it therefore decides nothing as to the particular cause of the Psalmist's grief.Stick fast.--Better, have sunk into, from a root meaning to descend. Presseth, in the next clause, is from the same verb. Translate, therefore,For thine arrows have fallen deep into me,And fallen upon me has thine hand.