Psalms 38:2
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“For Your arrows have pierced me deeply, and Your hand has pressed down on me.”
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BSBPD
“For Your arrows have pierced me deeply, and Your hand has pressed down on me.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)KJVPD
“For thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand presseth me sore.”
King James Version · Public DomainASVPD
“For thine arrows stick fast in me, And thy hand presseth me sore.”
American Standard Version · Public DomainYLTPD
“For Thine arrows have come down on me, And Thou lettest down upon me Thy hand.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainCross references
Other passages that echo Psalms 38:2 — 12 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Deuteronomy 2:15Indeed, the LORD’s hand was against them, to eliminate them from the camp, until they had all perished.
- Ruth 1:13would you wait for them to grow up? Would you refrain from having husbands? No, my daughters, it grieves me very much for your sakes that the hand of the LORD has gone out against me.”
- 1 Samuel 5:6Now the hand of the LORD was heavy on the people of Ashdod and its vicinity, ravaging them and afflicting them with tumors.
- 1 Samuel 5:11Then the Ekronites assembled all the rulers of the Philistines and said, “Send away the ark of the God of Israel. It must return to its place, so that it will not kill us and our people!” For a deadly confusion had pervaded the city; the hand of God was heavy upon it.
- 1 Samuel 6:9but keep watching it. If it goes up the road to its homeland, toward Beth-shemesh, it is the LORD who has brought on us this great disaster. But if it does not, then we will know that it was not His hand that punished us and that it happened by chance.”
- Job 6:4For the arrows of the Almighty have pierced me; my spirit drinks in their poison; the terrors of God are arrayed against me.
- Psalms 6:2Be merciful to me, O LORD, for I am frail; heal me, O LORD, for my bones are in agony.
- Psalms 21:12For You will put them to flight when Your bow is trained upon them.
- Psalms 32:4For day and night Your hand was heavy upon me; my strength was drained as in the summer heat. Selah
- Psalms 39:10Remove Your scourge from me; I am perishing by the force of Your hand.
- Psalms 64:7But God will shoot them with arrows; suddenly they will be wounded.
- Lamentations 3:12He bent His bow and set me as the target for His arrow.
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