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

1O Lord, don’t rebuke me in your anger or discipline me in your rage! Your arrows have struck deep, and your blows are crushing me. 3Because of your anger, my whole body is sick; my health is broken because of my sins. 4My guilt overwhelms me— it is a burden too heavy to bear.

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 21:12For they will turn and run when they see your arrows aimed at them.
• Psalms 64:7But God himself will shoot them with his arrows, suddenly striking them down.
• Job 6:4For the Almighty has struck me down with his arrows. Their poison infects my spirit. God’s terrors are lined up against me.
• Lamentations 3:12He has drawn his bow and made me the target for his arrows.
• Psalms 32:4Day and night your hand of discipline was heavy on me. My strength evaporated like water in the summer heat. Interlude
• Psalms 39:10But please stop striking me! I am exhausted by the blows from your hand.
• Deuteronomy 2:15The Lord struck them down until they had all been eliminated from the community.
• Ruth 1:13Would you wait for them to grow up and refuse to marry someone else? No, of course not, my daughters! Things are far more bitter for me than for you, because the Lord himself has raised his fist against me.”
• 1 Samuel 5:6Then the Lord’s heavy hand struck the people of Ashdod and the nearby villages with a plague of tumors.
• 1 Samuel 6:9If they cross the border of our land and go to Beth-shemesh, we will know it was the Lord who brought this great disaster upon us. If they don’t, we will know it was not his hand that caused the plague. It came simply 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