Psalms 38:2
For Your arrows have pierced me deeply, and Your hand has pressed down on me.
Berean Standard Bible
In The King James Version
For thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand presseth me sore.
In Context
1O LORD, do not rebuke me in Your anger or discipline me in Your wrath.
Cross References
Ruth 1:13would you wait for them to grow up? Would you refrain from having husbands? No, my daughters, it grieves me very much for your sakes that the hand of the LORD has gone out against me.”
1 Samuel 5:11Then the Ekronites assembled 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 pervaded the city; the hand of God was heavy upon it.
Job 6:4For the arrows of the Almighty have pierced me; my spirit drinks in their poison; the terrors of God are arrayed against me.
Psalms 21:12For You will put them to flight when Your bow is trained upon them.
Psalms 39:10Remove Your scourge from me; I am perishing by the force of Your hand.
Lamentations 3:12He bent His bow and set me as the target for His arrow.
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 →