Psalm 38:2 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

For thy arrows have sunk into me, and thy hand has come down on me.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

For thine arrows stick fast in me, And thy hand presseth me sore.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

For Your arrows have sunk into me and stick fast, and Your hand has come down upon me and pressed me sorely.

American Standard Version (1901)

For thine arrows stick fast in me, And thy hand presseth me sore.

Common English Bible

Your arrows have pierced me; your fist has come down hard on me.

Catholic Public Domain Version

I said, "I will keep to my ways, so that I will not offend with my tongue." I posted a guard at my mouth, when a sinner took up a position against me.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

I said: I will take heed to my ways: that I sin not with my tongue. I have set guard to my mouth, when the sinner stood against me.

Psalm 38:2 Cross References

Job 6:4

For the arrows of the Almighty are in me; my spirit drinks their poison; the terrors of God are arrayed against me.

Psalm 21:12

For you will put them to flight; you will aim at their faces with your bows.

Psalm 32:4

For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me; my strength was dried up as by the heat of summer. Selah

Psalm 6:2

Be gracious to me, O Lord, for I am languishing; O Lord, heal me, for my bones are troubled.

Psalm 64:7

But God will shoot his arrow at them; they will be wounded suddenly.

Lamentations 3:12

he bent his bow and set me as a mark for his arrow.

Deuteronomy 2:15

For indeed the hand of the Lord was against them, to destroy them from the camp, until they had perished.

Ruth 1:13

would you therefore wait till they were grown? Would you therefore refrain from marrying? No, my daughters, for it is exceedingly bitter to me for your sake that the hand of the Lord has gone forth against me.”

1 Samuel 5:11

They sent therefore 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 slay us and our people.” For there was a deathly panic throughout the whole city. The hand of God was very heavy there;

1 Samuel 5:6

The hand of the Lord was heavy upon the people of Ashdod, and he terrified and afflicted them with tumors, both Ashdod and its territory.

1 Samuel 6:9

And watch; if it goes up on the way to its own land, to Beth-shemesh, then it is he who has done us this great harm; but if not, then we shall know that it is not his hand that struck us, it happened to us by chance.”