Psalms 38:2

KJV1611 – Modern English

For your arrows pierce deeply into me, and your hand presses me hard.

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  • Ps 32:4 : 4 For day and night Your hand was heavy upon me; my vitality turned into the drought of summer. Selah.
  • Job 6:4 : 4 For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, the poison which drinks up my spirit; the terrors of God have arrayed themselves against me.
  • Ps 21:12 : 12 Therefore, you shall make them turn their back; you shall make ready your arrows on your strings against their face.
  • Ps 39:10-11 : 10 Remove your stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of your hand. 11 When you correct a man for iniquity with rebukes, you make his beauty to fade like a moth: surely every man is vanity. Selah.
  • Ps 64:7 : 7 But God shall shoot at them with an arrow; suddenly they shall be wounded.
  • Lam 3:12 : 12 He has bent His bow and set me as a target for the arrow.
  • Deut 2:15 : 15 For indeed the hand of the LORD was against them, to destroy them from the camp, until they were consumed.
  • Ruth 1:13 : 13 Would you wait for them till they were grown? Would you restrain yourselves from having husbands? No, my daughters; for it grieves me much for your sakes that the hand of the LORD has gone out against me.
  • 1 Sam 5:6 : 6 But the hand of the LORD was heavy upon the people of Ashdod, and He destroyed them and struck them with tumors, even Ashdod and its territory.
  • 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 return to its own place, that it may not kill us 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 watch, if it goes up the road to its own territory, to Beth Shemesh, then He has done us this great evil; but if not, then we shall know that it was not His hand that struck us, but it happened to us by chance.

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    3There is no health in my flesh because of your anger, nor is there any rest in my bones because of my sin.

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    13He has caused the arrows of His quiver to pierce my innermost parts.

  • Ps 39:10
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    10Remove your stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of your hand.

  • Job 6:4
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    4For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, the poison which drinks up my spirit; the terrors of God have arrayed themselves against me.

  • Job 16:12-13
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    12I was at ease, but he has broken me apart; he has also seized me by my neck and shaken me to pieces and set me up as his target.

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    6I am troubled; I am greatly bowed down; I go mourning all the day long.

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

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    9Lord, all my desire is before you, and my groaning is not hidden from you.

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    17My bones are pierced in me at night, and my sinews find no rest.

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

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    4For day and night Your hand was heavy upon me; my vitality turned into the drought of summer. Selah.

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    7Your wrath lies hard upon me, and you have afflicted me with all your waves. Selah.

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

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