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 Living Translation (NLT)Your arrows have struck deep, and your blows are crushing me.

Context of Psalms 38:2

1O Lord, do not rebuke me in Your wrath, Nor chasten me in Your hot displeasure! For Your arrows pierce me deeply, And Your hand presses me down. 3There is no soundness in my flesh Because of Your anger, Nor any health in my bones Because of my sin. 4For my iniquities have gone over my head; Like a heavy burden they are too heavy for me.

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 21:12Therefore You will make them turn their back; You will make ready Your arrows on Your string toward their faces.
• Psalms 64:7But God shall shoot at them with an arrow; Suddenly they shall be wounded.
• Job 6:4For the arrows of the Almighty are within me; My spirit drinks in their poison; The terrors of God are arrayed against me.
• Lamentations 3:12He has bent His bow And set me up as a target for the arrow.
• Psalms 32:4For day and night Your hand was heavy upon me; My vitality was turned into the drought of summer. Selah
• Psalms 39:10Remove Your plague from me; I am consumed by the blow of Your hand.
• Deuteronomy 2:15For indeed the hand of the Lord was against them, to destroy them from the midst of the camp until they were consumed.
• Ruth 1:13would you wait for them till they were grown? Would you restrain yourselves from having husbands? No, my daughters; for it grieves me very much for your sakes that the hand of the Lord has gone out against me!”
• 1 Samuel 5:6But the hand of the Lord was heavy on the people of Ashdod, and He ravaged them and struck them with tumors, both Ashdod and its territory.
• 1 Samuel 6:9And watch: if it goes up the road to its own territory, to Beth Shemesh, then He has done us this great evil. But if not, then we shall know that it is not His hand that struck us—it happened to us 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