Psalms 38:2

Bible in Basic English (1941)

For your arrows have gone into my flesh, and I am crushed under the weight of your hand.

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  • Ps 32:4 : 4 For the weight of your hand was on me day and night; my body became dry like the earth in summer. (Selah.)
  • Job 6:4 : 4 For the arrows of the Ruler of all are present with me, and their poison goes deep into my spirit: his army of fears is put in order against me.
  • Ps 21:12 : 12 Their backs will be turned when you make ready the cords of your bow against their faces.
  • Ps 39:10-11 : 10 No longer let your hand be hard on me; I am wasted by the blows of your hand. 11 By the weight of your wrath against man's sin, the glory of his form is wasted away; truly every man is but a breath. (Selah.)
  • Ps 64:7 : 7 But God sends out an arrow against them; suddenly they are wounded.
  • Lam 3:12 : 12 With his bow bent, he has made me the mark for his arrows.
  • Deut 2:15 : 15 For the hand of the Lord was against them, working their destruction, till all were dead.
  • Ruth 1:13 : 13 Would you keep yourselves till they were old enough? would you keep from having husbands for them? No, my daughters; but I am very sad for you that the hand of the Lord is against me.
  • 1 Sam 5:6 : 6 But the hand of the Lord was hard on the people of Ashdod and he sent disease on them through all the country of Ashdod.
  • 1 Sam 5:11 : 11 So they sent and got together all the lords of the Philistines, and they said, Send away the ark of the God of Israel, and let it go back to its place, so that it may not be the cause of death to us and to our people: for there was a great fear of death through all the town; the hand of God was very hard on them there.
  • 1 Sam 6:9 : 9 If it goes by the land of Israel to Beth-shemesh, then this great evil is his work; but if not, then we may be certain that the evil was not his doing, but was the working of chance.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ps 38:3-4
    2 verses
    81%

    3My flesh is wasted because of your wrath; and there is no peace in my bones because of my sin.

    4For my crimes have gone over my head; they are like a great weight which is more than my strength.

  • Ps 38:1
    80%

    1<A Psalm. Of David. To keep in memory.> O Lord, be not bitter with me in your wrath; let not your hand be on me in the heat of your passion.

  • Lam 3:11-13
    3 verses
    79%

    11By him my ways have been turned on one side and I have been pulled in bits; he has made me waste.

    12With his bow bent, he has made me the mark for his arrows.

    13He has let loose his arrows into the inmost parts of my body.

  • Ps 39:10
    78%

    10No longer let your hand be hard on me; I am wasted by the blows of your hand.

  • Job 6:4
    78%

    4For the arrows of the Ruler of all are present with me, and their poison goes deep into my spirit: his army of fears is put in order against me.

  • Job 16:12-13
    2 verses
    77%

    12I was in comfort, but I have been broken up by his hands; he has taken me by the neck, shaking me to bits; he has put me up as a mark for his arrows.

    13His bowmen come round about me; their arrows go through my body without mercy; my life is drained out on the earth.

  • Ps 38:6-9
    4 verses
    76%

    6I am troubled, I am made low; I go weeping all the day.

    7For my body is full of burning; all my flesh is unhealthy.

    8I am feeble and crushed down; I gave a cry like a lion because of the grief in my heart.

    9Lord, all my desire is before you; my sorrow is not kept secret from you.

  • Ps 45:5
    75%

    5Your arrows are sharp in the heart of the king's haters; because of them the peoples are falling under you.

  • Job 30:17-18
    2 verses
    75%

    17The flesh is gone from my bones, and they give me no rest; there is no end to my pains.

    18With great force he takes a grip of my clothing, pulling me by the neck of my coat.

  • Ps 32:4
    75%

    4For the weight of your hand was on me day and night; my body became dry like the earth in summer. (Selah.)

  • Ps 88:16
    75%

    16The heat of your wrath has gone over me; I am broken by your cruel punishments.

  • Ps 88:7
    75%

    7The weight of your wrath is crushing me, all your waves have overcome me. (Selah.)

  • Ps 38:17
    74%

    17My feet are near to falling, and my sorrow is ever before me.

  • Ps 120:4
    74%

    4Sharp arrows of the strong, and burning fire.

  • Lam 1:13-14
    2 verses
    73%

    13From on high he has sent fire into my bones, and it has overcome them: his net is stretched out for my feet, I am turned back by him; he has made me waste and feeble all the day.

    14A watch is kept on my sins; they are joined together by his hand, they have come on to my neck; he has made my strength give way: the Lord has given me up into the hands of those against whom I have no power.

  • Lam 1:20
    73%

    20See, O Lord, for I am in trouble; the inmost parts of my body are deeply moved; my heart is turned in me; for I have been uncontrolled: outside the children are put to the sword, and in the house there is death.

  • Job 30:21
    73%

    21You have become cruel to me; the strength of your hand is hard on me.

  • Ps 22:14-16
    3 verses
    73%

    14I am flowing away like water, and all my bones are out of place: my heart is like wax, it has become soft in my body.

    15My throat is dry like a broken vessel; my tongue is fixed to the roof of my mouth, and the dust of death is on my lips.

    16Dogs have come round me: I am shut in by the band of evil-doers; they made wounds in my hands and feet.

  • Lam 3:3-4
    2 verses
    73%

    3Truly against me his hand has been turned again and again all the day.

    4My flesh and my skin have been used up by him and my bones broken.

  • Ps 6:1-2
    2 verses
    73%

    1<To the chief music-maker on corded instruments, on the Sheminith. A Psalm. Of David.> O Lord, do not be bitter with me in your wrath; do not send punishment on me in the heat of your passion.

    2Have mercy on me, O Lord, for I am wasted away: make me well, for even my bones are troubled.

  • Ps 102:5
    73%

    5Because of the voice of my sorrow, my flesh is wasted to the bone.

  • Ps 102:10
    73%

    10Because of your passion and your wrath, for I have been lifted up and then made low by you.

  • Ps 139:5
    73%

    5I am shut in by you on every side, and you have put your hand on me.

  • Ps 73:21
    73%

    21My heart was made bitter, and I was pained by the bite of grief:

  • Ps 55:4
    72%

    4My heart is deeply wounded, and the fear of death has come on me.

  • Ps 40:12
    72%

    12For unnumbered evils are round about me; my sins have overtaken me, so that I am bent down with their weight; they are more than the hairs of my head, my strength is gone because of them.

  • Ps 118:13
    72%

    13I have been hard pushed by you, so that I might have a fall: but the Lord was my helper.

  • Job 16:8
    72%

    8It has come up as a witness against me, and the wasting of my flesh makes answer to my face.

  • Ps 31:10
    72%

    10My life goes on in sorrow, and my years in weeping; my strength is almost gone because of my sin, and my bones are wasted away.

  • Ps 18:34
    72%

    34He makes my hands expert in war, so that a bow of brass is bent by my arms.

  • 2 Sam 22:35
    72%

    35He makes my hands expert in war, so that a bow of brass is bent by my arms.

  • Ps 18:39
    72%

    39For I have been armed by you with strength for the fight: you have made low under me those who come out against me.

  • Ps 43:2
    72%

    2You are the God of my strength; why have you put me from you? why do I go in sorrow because of the attacks of my haters?

  • Ps 42:10
    72%

    10The cruel words of my haters are like a crushing of my bones; when they say to me every day, Where is your God?

  • Job 19:22
    72%

    22Why are you cruel to me, like God, for ever saying evil against me?

  • Ps 31:4
    72%

    4Take me out of the net which they have put ready for me secretly; for you are my strength.

  • Job 13:26
    72%

    26For you put bitter things on record against me, and send punishment on me for the sins of my early years;