Psalms 38:2
For thine arrows stick fast in me, And thy hand presseth me sore.
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- Ps 32:4 : 4 For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: My moisture was changed [as] with the drought of summer. {{Selah
- Job 6:4 : 4 For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, The poison whereof my spirit drinketh up: The terrors of God do set themselves in array against me.
- Ps 21:12 : 12 For thou wilt make them turn their back; Thou wilt make ready with thy bowstrings against their face.
- Ps 39:10-11 : 10 Remove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of thy hand. 11 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
- Ps 64:7 : 7 But God will shoot at them; With an arrow suddenly shall they be wounded.
- Lam 3:12 : 12 He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.
- Deut 2:15 : 15 Moreover the hand of Jehovah was against them, to destroy them from the midst of the camp, until they were consumed.
- Ruth 1:13 : 13 would ye therefore tarry till they were grown? would ye therefore stay from having husbands? nay, my daughters, for it grieveth me much for your sakes, for the hand of Jehovah is gone forth against me.
- 1 Sam 5:6 : 6 But the hand of Jehovah was heavy upon them of Ashdod, and he destroyed them, and smote them with tumors, even Ashdod and the borders thereof.
- 1 Sam 5:11 : 11 They sent therefore and gathered together all the lords of the Philistines, and they said, Send away the ark of the God of Israel, and let it go again to its own place, that is slay us not, and our people. For there was a deadly discomfiture throughout all the city; the hand of God was very heavy there.
- 1 Sam 6:9 : 9 And see; if it goeth up by the way of its own border to Beth-shemesh, 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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3 There is no soundness in my flesh because of thine indignation; Neither is there any health in my bones because of my sin.
4 For mine iniquities are gone over my head: As a heavy burden they are too heavy for me.
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1 [A Psalm of David, to bring to remembrance]. O Jehovah, rebuke me not in thy wrath; Neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure.
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11 He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces; he hath made me desolate.
12 He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.
13 He hath caused the shafts of his quiver to enter into my reins.
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10 Remove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of thy hand.
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4 For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, The poison whereof my spirit drinketh up: The terrors of God do set themselves in array against me.
- Job 16:12-132 verses77%
12 I was at ease, and he brake me asunder; Yea, he hath taken me by the neck, and dashed me to pieces: He hath also set me up for his mark.
13 His archers compass me round about; He cleaveth my reins asunder, and doth not spare; He poureth out my gall upon the ground.
- Ps 38:6-94 verses76%
6 I am pained and bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long.
7 For my loins are filled with burning; And there is no soundness in my flesh.
8 I am faint and sore bruised: I have groaned by reason of the disquietness of my heart.
9 Lord, all my desire is before thee; And my groaning is not hid from thee.
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5 Thine arrows are sharp; The peoples fall under thee; [They are] in the heart of the king's enemies.
- Job 30:17-182 verses75%
17 In the night season my bones are pierced in me, And the [pains] that gnaw me take no rest.
18 By [God's] great force is my garment disfigured; It bindeth me about as the collar of my coat.
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4 For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: My moisture was changed [as] with the drought of summer. {{Selah
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16 Thy fierce wrath is gone over me; Thy terrors have cut me off.
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7 Thy wrath lieth hard upon me, And thou hast afflicted me with all thy waves. {{Selah
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17 For I am ready to fall, And my sorrow is continually before me.
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4 Sharp arrows of the mighty, With coals of juniper.
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13 From on high hath he sent fire into my bones, and it prevaileth against them; He hath spread a net for my feet, he hath turned me back: He hath made me desolate and faint all the day.
14 The yoke of my transgressions is bound by his hand; They are knit together, they are come up upon my neck; He hath made my strength to fail: The Lord hath delivered me into their hands, against whom I am not able to stand.
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20 Behold, O Jehovah; for I am in distress; my heart is troubled; My heart is turned within me; for I have grievously rebelled: Abroad the sword bereaveth, at home there is as death.
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21 Thou art turned to be cruel to me; With the might of thy hand thou persecutest me.
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14 I am poured out like water, And all my bones are out of joint: My heart is like wax; It is melted within me.
15 My strength is dried up like a potsherd; And my tongue cleaveth to my jaws; And thou hast brought me into the dust of death.
16 For dogs have compassed me: A company of evil-doers have inclosed me; They pierced my hands and my feet.
- Lam 3:3-42 verses73%
3 Surely against me he turneth his hand again and again all the day.
4 My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones.
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2 Have mercy upon me, O Jehovah; for I am withered away: O Jehovah, heal me; for my bones are troubled.
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5 By reason of the voice of my groaning My bones cleave to my flesh.
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10 Because of thine indignation and thy wrath: For thou hast taken me up, and cast me away.
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5 Thou hast beset me behind and before, And laid thy hand upon me.
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21 For my soul was grieved, And I was pricked in my heart:
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4 My heart is sore pained within me: And the terrors of death are fallen upon me.
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12 For innumerable evils have compassed me about; Mine iniquities have overtaken me, so that I am not able to look up; They are more than the hairs of my head; And my heart hath failed me.
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13 Thou didst thrust sore at me that I might fall; But Jehovah helped me.
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8 And thou hast laid fast hold on me, [which] is a witness [against me] : And my leanness riseth up against me, It testifieth to my face.
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10 For my life is spent with sorrow, And my years with sighing: My strength faileth because of mine iniquity, And my bones are wasted away.
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34 He teacheth my hands to war; So that mine arms do bend a bow of brass.
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35 He teacheth my hands to war, So that mine arms do bend a bow of brass.
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39 For thou hast girded me with strength unto the battle: Thou hast subdued under me those that rose up against me.
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2 For thou art the God of my strength; Why hast thou cast me off? Why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?
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10 As with a sword in my bones, mine adversaries reproach me, While they continually say unto me, Where is thy God?
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22 Why do ye persecute me as God, And are not satisfied with my flesh?
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4 Pluck me out of the net that they have laid privily for me; For thou art my stronghold.
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26 For thou writest bitter things against me, And makest me to inherit the iniquities of my youth: