Psalms 38:2

Psalms 38:2 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)For thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand presseth me sore.
• New International Version (NIV)Your arrows have pierced me, and your hand has come down on me.
• English Standard Version (ESV)For your arrows have sunk into me, and your hand has come down on me.
• New King James Version (NKJV)For Your arrows pierce me deeply, And Your hand presses me down.

Context of Psalms 38:2

1Lord, when you are angry, please do not punish me. You have shot your arrows deep into me. Your hand has pushed me down to the ground. 3Your punishment has made my whole body ill. My health has gone, because of my sin. 4My sin is too much for me! It is like a heavy weight, that I cannot carry.

Psalms 38:2 word by word

כִּֽי־חִ֭צֶּיךָ נִ֣חֲתוּ בִ֑י וַתִּנְחַ֖ת עָלַ֣י יָדֶֽךָ׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• For thine arrowsחֵץchêts · arrowH2671
• stick fastנָחֵתnâchath · to descendH5181
• in me, and thy handיָדyâd · handH3027

Cross-references for Psalms 38:2

• Psalms 21:12No! You shoot your arrows at them, so that they turn round and they run away!
• Psalms 64:7But God will punish them! He will suddenly shoot an arrow at them and it will hurt them a lot.
• Job 6:4Almighty God has shot his arrows into me. Their poison is now deep inside me. God has sent me many troubles that make me afraid.
• Lamentations 3:12God is like a soldier with a bow and arrows. He used his bow to shoot at me.
• Psalms 32:4In the day and in the night, you punished me very much. It seemed as if the hot sun was taking away my strength. Selah.
• Psalms 39:10Please do not hurt me any more! You have already punished me enough, so that I am almost dead!
• Deuteronomy 2:15The Lord himself removed them so that they all died, one by one.
• Ruth 1:13I am sure that you do not want to wait until they are old enough for you to marry them! Would you wait all that time and not marry anyone else? So, my daughters, you must not return to Judah with me. You should not have to share my pain. The Lord has turned against me.’
• 1 Samuel 5:6The Lord punished the people who lived in Ashdod. He caused them to have a lot of pain, as well as the people in the places near Ashdod. He caused tumours to grow on their bodies.
• 1 Samuel 6:9But continue to watch it carefully. The cows may pull it across our border to Beth Shemesh in Israel. If that happens, we will know that the God of Israel has punished us with this great trouble. But if the cart goes somewhere else, we will know that it was not their God who did this to us. We will know that our disease happened only by chance.’

Commentaries on Psalms 38:2

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 2Thine arrows stick fast in me - This no doubt, refers to the acute pains which he endured; each appearing to his feeling as if an arrow were shot into his body.Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 2For thine arrows slick fast in me - See the notes at Job 6:4. The word rendered “stick fast” - נחת nâchath - means properly to go or come down; to descend; and the literal idea here would be, “thine arrows come down upon me.” It is not so much the idea of their “sticking fast” when in the wound or flesh; it is that they come down upon one, and pierce him. The meaning is, that he was afflicted “as if” God had wounded him with arrows - arrows which pierced…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 1-4The psalmist’s sins brought the Lord’s anger and rage. Because of this, the Lord disciplined and rebuked him, like arrows and blows striking him. As a result, his whole body is sick.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1-221-4. He deprecates deserved punishment, which is described (Psa 6:1), under the figure of bodily disease [Psa 38:3].Read the comment

Topics related to Psalms 38:2

• Afflictions and Adversities
• Arrow
• Conviction
• Remorse

In the dictionaries

• Afar
• Arrow
• Arrows
• Deceit
• Fret
• Plague
• Bring
• Pentateuch
• Psalms, Book of
• Sick; Sickness

Commentaries on Psalms 38

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• The Treasury of David
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings