For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, the poison thereof drinks up my spirit: the terrors of God do set themselves in array against me.
Psalm 38:2 - King James 2000 For your arrows stick fast in me, and your hand presses me down. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing 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. |
For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, the poison thereof drinks up my spirit: the terrors of God do set themselves in array against me.
Therefore shall you make them turn their back, when you shall make ready your arrows upon your strings toward their face.
For day and night your hand was heavy upon me: my strength is turned into the drought of summer. Selah.
Have mercy upon me, O LORD; for I am weak: O LORD, heal me; for my bones are troubled.
But God shall shoot at them with an arrow; suddenly shall they be wounded.
For indeed the hand of the LORD was against them, to destroy them from the midst of the camp, until they were consumed.
Would you tarry for them till they were grown? would you refrain from having husbands? nay, my daughters; for it grieves me much for your sakes that the hand of the LORD has gone out against me.
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 its 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.
But the hand of the LORD was heavy upon them of Ashdod, and he destroyed them, and struck them with tumors, even Ashdod and the territory thereof.
And see, if it goes up by the way of its own land to Bethshemesh, 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 by chance that it happened to us.