Psalms 38:2

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

For thine arrows stick fast in me, And thy hand presseth me sore.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

יְֽהוָ֗ה אַל־בְּקֶצְפְּךָ֥ תוֹכִיחֵ֑נִי וּֽבַחֲמָתְךָ֥ תְיַסְּרֵֽנִי׃

Transliteration

YHWH not in qetsep̄ᵊḵā tôḵîḥēnî and in ḥămātᵊḵā tᵊyassᵊrēnî

Grammar Details

*YHWH*: divine name - LORD
*qetsep̄ᵊḵā*: noun with 2nd person masculine singular suffix and prefix bᵊ- - in your anger
*tôḵîḥēnî*: hiphil imperfect 2nd masculine singular with 1st person suffix - you rebuke/reprove me
*ḥămātᵊḵā*: noun with 2nd person masculine singular suffix and prefix bᵊ- - in your wrath/fury
*tᵊyassᵊrēnî*: piel imperfect 2nd masculine singular with 1st person suffix - you discipline/chastise me

Word Meanings

*qetsep̄*: anger/wrath/indignation
*tôḵîḥēnî*: rebuke/reprove/correct me
*ḥămāt*: heat/rage/wrath/fury
*tᵊyassᵊrēnî*: discipline/chasten/instruct me

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

Ps 32:4 : 4 For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: My moisture was changed [as] with the drought of summer. {H5542}
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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