Psalms 38:2

World English Bible (2000)

For your arrows have pierced me, your hand presses hard on me.

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  • Ps 32:4 : 4 For day and night your hand was heavy on me. My strength was sapped in the heat of summer. Selah.
  • Job 6:4 : 4 For the arrows of the Almighty are within me. My spirit drinks up their poison. The terrors of God set themselves in array against me.
  • Ps 21:12 : 12 For you will make them turn their back, when you aim drawn bows at their face.
  • Ps 39:10-11 : 10 Remove your scourge away from me. I am overcome by the blow of your hand. 11 When you rebuke and correct man for iniquity, You consume his wealth like a moth. Surely every man is but a breath." Selah.
  • Ps 64:7 : 7 But God will shoot at them. They will be suddenly struck down with an arrow.
  • Lam 3:12 : 12 He has bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.
  • Deut 2:15 : 15 Moreover the hand of Yahweh was against them, to destroy them from the midst of the camp, until they were consumed.
  • Ruth 1:13 : 13 would you then wait until they were grown? Would you then refrain from having husbands? No, my daughters, for it grieves me much for your sakes, for the hand of Yahweh has gone out against me."
  • 1 Sam 5:6 : 6 But the hand of Yahweh was heavy on them of Ashdod, and he destroyed them, and struck them with tumors, even Ashdod and its borders.
  • 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 it not kill us and our people." For there was a deadly confusion throughout all the city; the hand of God was very heavy there.
  • 1 Sam 6:9 : 9 Behold; if it goes up by the way of its own border to Beth Shemesh, then he has done us this great evil: but if not, then we shall know that it is not his hand that struck us; it was a chance that happened to us."

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    3There is no soundness in my flesh because of your indignation, neither is there any health in my bones because of my sin.

    4For my iniquities have gone over my head. As a heavy burden, they are too heavy for me.

  • Ps 38:1
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  • Lam 3:11-13
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    11He has turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces; he has made me desolate.

    12He has bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.

    13He has caused the shafts of his quiver to enter into my kidneys.

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

  • Job 6:4
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    4For the arrows of the Almighty are within me. My spirit drinks up their poison. The terrors of God set themselves in array against me.

  • Job 16:12-13
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    12I was at ease, and he broke me apart. Yes, he has taken me by the neck, and dashed me to pieces. He has also set me up for his target.

    13His archers surround me. He splits my kidneys apart, and does not spare. He pours out my gall on the ground.

  • Ps 38:6-9
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    6I am pained and bowed down greatly. I go mourning all day long.

    7For my waist is filled with burning. There is no soundness in my flesh.

    8I am faint and severely bruised. I have groaned by reason of the anguish of my heart.

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

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    5Your arrows are sharp. The nations fall under you, with arrows in the heart of the king's enemies.

  • Job 30:17-18
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    17In the night season my bones are pierced in me, and the pains that gnaw me take no rest.

    18By great force is my garment disfigured. It binds me about as the collar of my coat.

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    16Your fierce wrath has gone over me. Your terrors have cut me off.

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    7Your wrath lies heavily on me. You have afflicted me with all your waves. Selah.

  • Ps 38:17
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    17For I am ready to fall. My pain is continually before me.

  • Ps 120:4
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    4Sharp arrows of the mighty, with coals of juniper.

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    13From on high has he sent fire into my bones, and it prevails against them; He has spread a net for my feet, he has turned me back: He has made me desolate and faint all the day.

    14The yoke of my transgressions is bound by his hand; They are knit together, they are come up on my neck; he has made my strength to fail: The Lord has delivered me into their hands, against whom I am not able to stand.

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    20See, Yahweh; for I am in distress; my heart is troubled; My heart is turned within me; for I have grievously rebelled: Abroad the sword bereaves, at home there is as death.

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    21You have turned to be cruel to me. With the might of your hand you persecute me.

  • Ps 22:14-16
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    14I am poured out like water. All my bones are out of joint. My heart is like wax; it is melted within me.

    15My strength is dried up like a potsherd. My tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth. You have brought me into the dust of death.

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    13You pushed me back hard, to make me fall, but Yahweh helped me.

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

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    4Pluck me out of the net that they have laid secretly for me, for you are my stronghold.

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