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Psalm 38

Psa. 38:2 KJV (With Strong’s)

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For thine arrows
chets (Hebrew #2671)
properly, a piercer, i.e. an arrow; by implication, a wound; figuratively, (of God) thunder-bolt; (by interchange for 6086) the shaft of a spear
KJV usage: + archer, arrow, dart, shaft, staff, wound.
Pronounce: khayts
Origin: from 2686
y stick fast
nachath (Hebrew #5181)
to sink, i.e. descend; causatively, to press or lead down
KJV usage: be broken, (cause to) come down, enter, go down, press sore, settle, stick fast.
Pronounce: naw-khath'
Origin: a primitive root
in me, and thy hand
yad (Hebrew #3027)
a hand (the open one (indicating power, means, direction, etc.), in distinction from 3709, the closed one); used (as noun, adverb, etc.) in a great variety of applications, both literally and figuratively, both proximate and remote (as follows)
KJV usage: (+ be) able, X about, + armholes, at, axletree, because of, beside, border, X bounty, + broad, (broken-)handed, X by, charge, coast, + consecrate, + creditor, custody, debt, dominion, X enough, + fellowship, force, X from, hand(-staves, -y work), X he, himself, X in, labour, + large, ledge, (left-)handed, means, X mine, ministry, near, X of, X order, ordinance, X our, parts, pain, power, X presumptuously, service, side, sore, state, stay, draw with strength, stroke, + swear, terror, X thee, X by them, X themselves, X thine own, X thou, through, X throwing, + thumb, times, X to, X under, X us, X wait on, (way-)side, where, + wide, X with (him, me, you), work, + yield, X yourselves.
Pronounce: yawd
Origin: a primitive word
presseth me sore
nachath (Hebrew #5181)
to sink, i.e. descend; causatively, to press or lead down
KJV usage: be broken, (cause to) come down, enter, go down, press sore, settle, stick fast.
Pronounce: naw-khath'
Origin: a primitive root
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Job 6:4• 4For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, the poison whereof drinketh up my spirit: the terrors of God do set themselves in array against me. (Job 6:4)

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Ministry on This Verse

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thine.
Psa. 21:12• 12Therefore shalt thou make them turn their back, when thou shalt make ready thine arrows upon thy strings against the face of them. (Psa. 21:12)
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Psa. 64:7• 7But God shall shoot at them with an arrow; suddenly shall they be wounded. (Psa. 64:7)
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Job 6:4• 4For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, the poison whereof drinketh up my spirit: the terrors of God do set themselves in array against me. (Job 6:4)
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Lam. 3:12• 12He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow. (Lam. 3:12)
thy hand.
Psa. 32:4• 4For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: my moisture is turned into the drought of summer. Selah. (Psa. 32:4)
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Psa. 39:10‑11• 10Remove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of thine hand.
 11When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: surely every man is vanity. Selah. (Psa. 39:10‑11)
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Deut. 2:15• 15For indeed the hand of the Lord was against them, to destroy them from among the host, until they were consumed. (Deut. 2:15)
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Ruth 1:13• 13Would ye tarry for them till they were grown? would ye stay for them from having husbands? nay, my daughters; for it grieveth me much for your sakes that the hand of the Lord is gone out against me. (Ruth 1:13)
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1 Sam. 5:6,11• 6But the hand of the Lord was heavy upon them of Ashdod, and he destroyed them, and smote them with emerods, even Ashdod and the coasts thereof.
 11So 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 his 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. (1 Sam. 5:6,11)
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1 Sam. 6:9• 9And see, if it goeth up by the way of his own coast to Beth-shemesh, then he hath done us this great evil: but if not, then we shall know that it is not his hand that smote us; it was a chance that happened to us. (1 Sam. 6:9)
• The order of thought is thus remarkable. First, Jehovah judging {v.1-2}, then sin as the cause {v.3}, then personal misery {v.4-10}, then abandonment of friends {v.11}, then liveliness and of enemies {v.12}, and the consciousness of all resulting in the heart confiding in Him that smote, turning to Him that smiteth it {v.13-15}; and then comes out what at bottom was in the heart—hope in Jehovah, the consciousness of such belonging to Him as that the triumph of faith's enemies could not be{v.16-22}, and that in the sense of the need of His intervention, because the poor sinning soul had no strength in self {v.18}. (“Practical Reflections on the Psalms: Psalms 37-39” by J.N. Darby)
• They feel the chastening hand of the Lord upon them on account of their sins. The arrows of conviction pierce their conscience as their sins are brought to remembrance (see heading). (“Book 1.” by B. Anstey)

J. N. Darby Translation

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For thine arrows stick fast in mec, and thy hand cometh down upon me.

JND Translation Notes

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Lit. "have descended into me."