Tree of Life Version
Psalms 38:2
2Adonai, do not rebuke me in Your anger or discipline me in Your wrath.
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
1A psalm of David, for a memorial. Adonai, do not rebuke me in Your anger or discipline me in Your wrath. 3For Your arrows have sunk deep into me and Your hand has pressed down on me. 4There is no health in my flesh because of Your indignation. There is no wholeness in my bones because of my sin.
Read all of Psalms 38Psalms 38:2 word by word
כִּֽי־חִ֭צֶּיךָ נִ֣חֲתוּ בִ֑י וַתִּנְחַ֖ת עָלַ֣י יָדֶֽךָ׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Psalms 38:2
- Psalms 21:12Though they intended evil against You and devised a plot, they cannot succeed.
- Psalms 64:7They are plotting injustices: “We have completed a perfect plot!” A man’s inward part and heart are deep.
- Job 6:4For the arrows of Shaddai are in me, my spirit drinks in their poison; God’s terrors line up against me.
- Lamentations 3:12He bent His bow and made me the target for His arrow.
- Psalms 32:4For day and night Your hand was heavy upon me. My strength was drained as in the droughts of summer. Selah
- Psalms 39:10I am speechless, not opening my mouth —for You have done it.
- Deuteronomy 2:15Indeed, the hand of Adonai was against them, to destroy them from within the camp until they came to their end.
- Ruth 1:13would you wait for them to grow up? Would you therefore hold off getting married? No, my daughters, it is more bitter for me than for you—for the hand of Adonai has gone out against me!”
- 1 Samuel 5:6Then the hand of Adonai was heavy upon the Ashdodites, ravaging them and afflicting Ashdod and its vicinity with tumors.
- 1 Samuel 6:9Then watch—if it goes up by the way of its own territory to Beth-shemesh, then it was He who inflicted on us this great harm. But if not, then we will know that it was not His hand that struck us; it just 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
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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
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