Psalms 38:2

King James Version 1611 (Original)

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 is turned into the drought of summer. Selah.
  • Job 6:4 : 4 For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, the poison whereof drinketh up my spirit: the terrors of God do set themselves in array against me.
  • Ps 21:12 : 12 Therefore shalt thou make them turn their back, when thou shalt make ready thine arrows upon thy strings against the face of them.
  • Ps 39:10-11 : 10 Remove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of thine 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 shall 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 For indeed the hand of the LORD was against them, to destroy them from among the host, until they were consumed.
  • Ruth 1:13 : 13 Would ye tarry for them till they were grown? would ye stay for them from having husbands? nay, my daughters; for it grieveth me much for your sakes that the hand of the LORD is gone out against me.
  • 1 Sam 5:6 : 6 But the hand of the LORD was heavy upon them of Ashdod, and he destroyed them, and smote them with emerods, even Ashdod and the coasts thereof.
  • 1 Sam 5:11 : 11 So they sent and gathered together all the lords of the Philistines, and said, Send away the ark of the God of Israel, and let it go again to his own place, that it slay us not, and our people: for there was a deadly destruction 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 his own coast to Bethshemesh, 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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  • Ps 38:3-4
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    3 There is no soundness in my flesh because of thine anger; neither is there any rest in my bones because of my sin.

    4 For mine iniquities are gone over mine head: as an heavy burden they are too heavy for me.

  • 1 O LORD, rebuke me not in thy wrath: neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure.

  • Lam 3:11-13
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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 arrows of his quiver to enter into my reins.

  • 10 Remove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of thine hand.

  • 4 For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, the poison whereof drinketh up my spirit: the terrors of God do set themselves in array against me.

  • Job 16:12-13
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    12 I was at ease, but he hath broken me asunder: he hath also taken me by my neck, and shaken me to pieces, and 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 38:6-9
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    6 I am troubled; I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long.

    7 For my loins are filled with a loathsome disease: and there is no soundness in my flesh.

    8 I am feeble and sore broken: I have roared by reason of the disquietness of my heart.

    9 Lord, all my desire is before thee; and my groaning is not hid from thee.

  • 5 Thine arrows are sharp in the heart of the king's enemies; whereby the people fall under thee.

  • Job 30:17-18
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    17 My bones are pierced in me in the night season: and my sinews take no rest.

    18 By the great force of my disease is my garment changed: it bindeth me about as the collar of my coat.

  • 4 For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: my moisture is turned into the drought of summer. Selah.

  • 16 Thy fierce wrath goeth over me; thy terrors have cut me off.

  • 7 Thy wrath lieth hard upon me, and thou hast afflicted me with all thy waves. Selah.

  • 17 For I am ready to halt, and my sorrow is continually before me.

  • 4 Sharp arrows of the mighty, with coals of juniper.

  • Lam 1:13-14
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    13 From above 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 wreathed, and come up upon my neck: he hath made my strength to fall, the Lord hath delivered me into their hands, from whom I am not able to rise up.

  • 20 Behold, O LORD; for I am in distress: my bowels are troubled; mine heart is turned within me; for I have grievously rebelled: abroad the sword bereaveth, at home there is as death.

  • 21 Thou art become cruel to me: with thy strong hand thou opposest thyself against me.

  • Ps 22:14-16
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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 in the midst of my bowels.

    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: the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet.

  • Lam 3:3-4
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    3 Surely against me is he turned; he turneth his hand against me all the day.

    4 My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones.

  • Ps 6:1-2
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    1 O LORD, rebuke me not in thine anger, neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure.

    2 Have mercy upon me, O LORD; for I am weak: O LORD, heal me; for my bones are vexed.

  • 5 By reason of the voice of my groaning my bones cleave to my skin.

  • 10 Because of thine indignation and thy wrath: for thou hast lifted me up, and cast me down.

  • 5 Thou hast beset me behind and before, and laid thine hand upon me.

  • 21 Thus my heart was grieved, and I was pricked in my reins.

  • 4 My heart is sore pained within me: and the terrors of death are fallen upon me.

  • 12 For innumerable evils have compassed me about: mine iniquities have taken hold upon me, so that I am not able to look up; they are more than the hairs of mine head: therefore my heart faileth me.

  • 13 Thou hast thrust sore at me that I might fall: but the LORD helped me.

  • 8 And thou hast filled me with wrinkles, which is a witness against me: and my leanness rising up in me beareth witness to my face.

  • 10 For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing: my strength faileth because of mine iniquity, and my bones are consumed.

  • 34 He teacheth my hands to war, so that a bow of steel is broken by mine arms.

  • 35 He teacheth my hands to war; so that a bow of steel is broken by mine arms.

  • 39 For thou hast girded me with strength unto the battle: thou hast subdued under me those that rose up against me.

  • 2 For thou art the God of my strength: why dost thou cast me off? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

  • 10 As with a sword in my bones, mine enemies reproach me; while they say daily unto me, Where is thy God?

  • 22 Why do ye persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?

  • 4 Pull me out of the net that they have laid privily for me: for thou art my strength.

  • 26 For thou writest bitter things against me, and makest me to possess the iniquities of my youth.