Psalms 38:2
For yours arrows stick fast in me, and your hand presses me sore.
Updated King James Version
In The King James Version
For thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand presseth me sore.
In Context
1O lord, rebuke me not in your wrath: neither chasten me in your hot displeasure.
Cross References
Ruth 1:13Would all of you tarry for them till they were grown? would all of you stay for them from having husbands? nay, my daughters; for it grieves me much for your sakes that the hand of the LORD is gone out against me.
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.
Job 6:4For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, the poison whereof drinks up my spirit: the terrors of God do set themselves in array against me.
Psalms 21:12Therefore shall you make them turn their back, when you shall make ready yours arrows upon your strings against the face of them.
Psalms 39:10Remove your stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of yours 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 →