Psalms 38:2
I said, “I will keep to my ways, so that I will not offend with my tongue.” I posted a guard at my mouth, when a sinner took up a position against me.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
For thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand presseth me sore.
In Context
1Unto the end. For Jeduthun himself. A Canticle of David.
3I was silenced and humbled, and I was quiet before good things, and my sorrow was renewed.
Cross References
Ruth 1:13if you were willing to wait until they were grown and had completed the years of adolescence, you would be elderly before you could marry. Do not do so, I beg you, my daughters. For your difficulties weigh upon me greatly, and the hand of the Lord has been set against me.”
1 Samuel 5:11And so they sent and gathered together all the princes of the Philistines, and they said: “Release the ark of the God of Israel, and return it to its own place. And let it not kill us, with our people.”
Job 6:4For the arrows of the Lord are in me, my spirit drinks of their indignation, and the terrors of the Lord are soldiers against me.
Psalms 21:12Do not depart from me. For tribulation is near, since there is no one who may help me.
Psalms 39:10I have announced your justice in a great Church: behold, I will not restrain my lips. O Lord, you have known it.
Lamentations 3:12DALETH. He has bent his bow, and he has positioned me like a target for his arrows.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 38:2-12
Sorrowful Complaints. 1 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 a heavy burden they are too heavy for me. 5 My wounds stink and are corrupt because of my foolishness. 6 I am troubled; I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long. 7… Read the whole commentary →