Psalms 38:3

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

There is no soundness in my flesh because of thine indignation; Neither is there any health in my bones because of my sin.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

כִּֽי־חִ֭צֶּיךָ נִ֣חֲתוּ בִ֑י וַתִּנְחַ֖ת עָלַ֣י יָדֶֽךָ׃

Transliteration

For ḥitseyḵā niḥătû in me, and watinḥat upon me yādeḵā

Grammar Details

• *ḥitseyḵā*: noun with 2nd person masculine singular suffix - your arrows
• *niḥătû*: niphal perfect 3rd person plural - they have descended/sunk/come down
• *watinḥat*: qal imperfect 3rd feminine singular with waw-consecutive - and it came down/descended
• *yādeḵā*: noun with 2nd person masculine singular suffix - your hand

Word Meanings

• *ḥitsey*: arrows/shafts
• *niḥătû*: have sunk down/descended/penetrated
• *watinḥat*: has come down/pressed down/descended
• *yād*: hand/power

Referenced Verses

• Ps 6:2 : 2 Have mercy upon me, O Jehovah; for I am withered away: O Jehovah, heal me; for my bones are troubled.
• Ps 51:8 : 8 Make me to hear joy and gladness, That the bones which thou hast broken may rejoice.
• Ps 90:7-8 : 7 For we are consumed in thine anger, And in thy wrath are we troubled. 8 Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, Our secret sins in the light of thy countenance.
• Ps 102:3 : 3 For my days consume away like smoke, And my bones are burned as a firebrand.
• Ps 102:5 : 5 By reason of the voice of my groaning My bones cleave to my flesh.
• Isa 1:5-6 : 5 Why will ye be still stricken, that ye revolt more and more? the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint. 6 From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it; [but] wounds, and bruises, and fresh stripes: they have not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with oil.
• Lam 3:40-42 : 40 Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to Jehovah. 41 Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto God in the heavens. 42 We have transgressed and have rebelled; thou hast not pardoned.
• Ps 31:9-9 : 9 Have mercy upon me, O Jehovah, for I am in distress: Mine eye wasteth away with grief, [yea], my soul and my body. 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.
• 2 Chr 26:19 : 19 Then Uzziah was wroth; and he had a censer in his hand to burn incense; and while he was wroth with the priests, the leprosy brake forth in his forehead before the priests in the house of Jehovah, beside the altar of incense.
• Job 2:7-8 : 7 So Satan went forth from the presence of Jehovah, and smote Job with sore boils from the sole of his foot unto his crown. 8 And he took him a potsherd to scrape himself therewith; and he sat among the ashes.
• Job 33:19-22 : 19 He is chastened also with pain upon his bed, And with continual strife in his bones; 20 So that his life abhorreth bread, And his soul dainty food. 21 His flesh is consumed away, that it cannot be seen; And his bones that were not seen stick out. 22 Yea, his soul draweth near unto the pit, And his life to the destroyers.