Psalms 38:2
For your arrows have pierced me, your hand presses hard on me.
World English Bible Classic
In The King James Version
For thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand presseth me sore.
In Context
1LORD, don’t rebuke me in your wrath, neither chasten me in your hot displeasure.
Cross References
Ruth 1:13would you then wait until they were grown? Would you then refrain from having husbands? No, my daughters, for it grieves me seriously for your sakes, for the LORD’s hand has gone out against me.”
1 Samuel 5:11They sent therefore and gathered together all the lords of the Philistines, and they said, “Send the ark of the God of Israel away, and let it go again to its own place, that it not kill us and our people.” For there was a deadly panic throughout all the city. The hand of God was very heavy there.
Job 6:4For the arrows of the Almighty are within me. My spirit drinks up their poison. The terrors of God set themselves in array against me.
Psalms 21:12For you will make them turn their back, when you aim drawn bows at their face.
Psalms 39:10Remove your scourge away from me. I am overcome by the blow of your hand.
Lamentations 3:12He has bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the 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 →