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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 in me,{HR}The poison of which my spirit drinketh up.{HR}The terrors of God array themselves against me. (Job 6:4)

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Ministry on This Verse

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thine.
Psa. 21:12• 12For thou makest them to turn their back,{HR}When thou preparest thy strings against their face. (Psa. 21:12)
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Psa. 64:7• 7But God shall shoot at them:{HR}[With] an arrow suddenly the wounds have been theirs. (Psa. 64:7)
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Job 6:4• 4For the arrows of the Almighty are in me,{HR}The poison of which my spirit drinketh up.{HR}The terrors of God array themselves 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 by day and by night thy hand is heavy upon me;{HR}My moisture hath been changed into the droughts of summer. Selah. (Psa. 32:4)
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Psa. 39:10‑11• 10Remove from me thy stroke;{HR}From the strife of thy hand I am consumed.
 11With chastisement for iniquity thou correctest man,{HR}And consumest like the moth what he desireth;{HR}Only vanity is every man. Selah. (Psa. 39:10‑11)
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Deut. 2:15• 15Moreover the hand of Jehovah was against them to destroy them from the midst of the camp, until they were consumed. (Deut. 2:15)
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Ruth 1:13• 13would ye wait on that account till they were grown? Would ye stay on that account from having husbands? No, my daughters, for I am in much more bitterness than you; for the hand of Jehovah is gone out against me. (Ruth 1:13)
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1 Sam. 5:6,11• 6But the hand of Jehovah was heavy upon them of Ashdod, and He destroyed them, and smote them with hemorrhoids, even Ashdod and the coasts thereof.
 11And they sent and gathered 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 kill us not, and our people. For there was deadly alarm throughout 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."

W. Kelly Translation

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For thine arrows have entered into me,{HR}And thy hand hath come down upon me.