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Psalms 38:2

New American Standard Bible (NASB ©1995) [2]
— For Your arrows have sunk deep into me, And Your hand has pressed down on me.
King James Version (KJV 1769) [2]
— For thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand presseth me sore.
English Revised Version (ERV 1885)
— For thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand presseth me sore.
American Standard Version (ASV 1901) [2]
— For thine arrows stick fast in me, And thy hand presseth me sore.
Webster's Revision of the KJB (WEB 1833)
— For thy arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand falleth heavy upon me.
Darby's Translation (DBY 1890)
— For thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand cometh down upon me.
Rotherham's Emphasized Bible (EBR 1902)
— For, thine arrows, have sunk down into me, and thy hand, presseth heavily upon me.
Young's Literal Translation (YLT 1898)
— For Thine arrows have come down on me, And Thou lettest down upon me Thy hand.
Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision (DR 1750)
— For thy arrows are fastened in me: and thy hand hath been strong upon me.
Geneva Bible (GNV 1560)
— For thine arrowes haue light vpon me, and thine hand lyeth vpon me.
Original King James Bible (AV 1611) [2]
— For thine arrowes sticke fast in me; and thy hand presseth me sore.
Lamsa Bible (1957)
— For thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand rests heavily upon me.
Brenton Greek Septuagint (LXX, Restored Names)
— For thy weapons are fixed in me, and thou hast pressed thy hand heavily upon me.
Full Hebrew Names / Holy Name KJV (2008) [2] [3]
— For thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand presseth me sore.

Strong's Numbers & Hebrew NamesHebrew Old TestamentColor-Code/Key Word Studies
For x3588
(3588) Complement
כִּי
kiy
{kee}
A primitive particle (the full form of the prepositional prefix) indicating causal relations of all kinds, antecedent or consequent; (by implication) very widely used as a relative conjugation or adverb; often largely modified by other particles annexed.
thine arrows 2671
{2671} Prime
חֵץ
chets
{khayts}
From H2686; properly a piercer, that is, an arrow; by implication a wound; figuratively (of God) thunder bolt; (by interchange for H6086) the shaft of a spear.
stick fast 5181
{5181} Prime
נָחַת
nachath
{naw-khath'}
A primitive root; to sink, that is, descend; causatively, to press or lead down.
z8738
<8738> Grammar
Stem - Niphal (See H8833)
Mood - Perfect (See H8816)
Count - 1429
in me, and thy hand 3027
{3027} Prime
יָד
yad
{yawd}
A primitive word; a hand (the open one (indicating power, means, direction, etc.), in distinction from H3709, the closed one); used (as noun, adverb, etc.) in a great variety of applications, both literally and figuratively, both proximate and remote.
presseth me sore. 5181
{5181} Prime
נָחַת
nachath
{naw-khath'}
A primitive root; to sink, that is, descend; causatively, to press or lead down.
z8799
<8799> Grammar
Stem - Qal (See H8851)
Mood - Imperfect (See H8811)
Count - 19885
x5921
(5921) Complement
עַל
`al
{al}
Properly the same as H5920 used as a preposition (in the singular or plural, often with prefix, or as conjugation with a particle following); above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications.
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary

See commentary on Psalms 38:1-4.


Psalms 38:2

_ _ arrows ... and thy hand — the sharp and heavy afflictions he suffered (Deuteronomy 32:23).

Matthew Henry's Commentary

See commentary on Psalms 38:1-11.

John Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Psalms 38:2

Arrows — Thy judgments outward and inward.

Geneva Bible Translation Notes

Psalms 38:2

For thine (c) arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand presseth me sore.

(c) Your sickness, with which you have visited me.

Cross-Reference Topical ResearchStrong's Concordance
thine:

Psalms 21:12 Therefore shalt thou make them turn their back, [when] thou shalt make ready [thine arrows] upon thy strings against the face of them.
Psalms 64:7 But God shall shoot at them [with] an arrow; suddenly shall they be wounded.
Job 6:4 For the arrows of the Almighty [are] within me, the poison whereof drinketh up my spirit: the terrors of God do set themselves in array against me.
Lamentations 3:12 He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.

thy hand:

Psalms 32:4 For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: my moisture is turned into the drought of summer. Selah.
Psalms 39:10-11 Remove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of thine hand. ... When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: surely every man [is] vanity. Selah.
Deuteronomy 2:15 For indeed the hand of the LORD was against them, to destroy them from among the host, until they were consumed.
Ruth 1:13 Would ye tarry for them till they were grown? would ye stay for them from having husbands? nay, my daughters; for it grieveth me much for your sakes that the hand of the LORD is gone out against me.
1 Samuel 5:6 But the hand of the LORD was heavy upon them of Ashdod, and he destroyed them, and smote them with emerods, [even] Ashdod and the coasts thereof.
1 Samuel 5:11 So 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.
1 Samuel 6:9 And see, if it goeth up by the way of his own coast to Bethshemesh, [then] he hath done us this great evil: but if not, then we shall know that [it is] not his hand [that] smote us: it [was] a chance [that] happened to us.
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Chain-Reference Bible SearchCross References with Concordance

Dt 2:15. Ru 1:13. 1S 5:6, 11; 6:9. Jb 6:4. Ps 21:12; 32:4; 39:10; 64:7. Lm 3:12.

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