Psalm 38:2 {37:3}
Good News Translation
You have wounded me with your arrows; you have struck me down.

New Revised Standard Version
For your arrows have sunk into me, and your hand has come down on me.

Contemporary English Version
You shot me with your arrows, and you struck me with your hand.

New American Bible
Your arrows have sunk deep in me; your hand has come down upon me.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For thy arrows are fastened in me: and thy hand hath been strong upon me.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

For thy arrows are fastened in me: and thy hand hath been strong upon me.

thine

Psalm 21:12 For thou shalt make them turn their back: in thy remnants thou shalt prepare their face.

Psalm 64:7 And God shall be exalted. The arrows of children are their wounds:

Job 6:4 For the arrows of the Lord are in me, the rage whereof drinketh up my spirit, and the terrors of the Lord war against me.

Lamentations 3:12 Daleth. He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for his arrows.

thy hand

Psalm 32:4 For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: I am turned in my anguish, whilst the thorn is fastened.

Psalm 39:10,11 Remove thy scourges from me. The strength of thy hand hath made me faint in rebukes: . . .

Deuteronomy 2:15 For his hand was against them, that they should perish from the midst of the camp.

Ruth 1:13 If you would wait till they were grown up, and come to man's estate, you would be old women before you marry. Do not so, my daughters, I beseech you: for I am grieved the more for your distress, and the hand of the Lord is gone out against me.

1 Samuel 5:6,11 And the hand of the Lord was heavy upon the Azotians, and he destroyed them, and afflicted Azotus and the coasts thereof with emerods. And in the villages and fields in the midst of that country, there came forth a multitude of mice, and there was the confusion of a great mortality in the city. . . .

1 Samuel 6:9 And you shall look: and if it go up by the way of his own coasts, towards Bethsames, then he hath done us this great evil: but if not, we shall know that it is not his hand hath touched us, but it hath happened by chance.

Context
Do Not Rebuke Me in Your Anger
1A psalm for David, for a remembrance of the sabbath. [2] Rebuke me not, O Lord, in thy indignation; nor chastise me in thy wrath. 2For thy arrows are fastened in me: and thy hand hath been strong upon me.3There is no health in my flesh, because of thy wrath: there is no peace for my bones, because of my sins.…
Cross References
Job 6:4
For the arrows of the Lord are in me, the rage whereof drinketh up my spirit, and the terrors of the Lord war against me.

Job 19:21
Have pity on me, have pity on me, at least you my friends, because the hand of the Lord hath touched me.

Psalm 32:4
For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: I am turned in my anguish, whilst the thorn is fastened.

Lamentations 3:3
Aleph. Only against me he hath turned, and turned again his hand all the day.

Lamentations 3:4
Beth. My skin and my flesh he hath made old, he hath broken my bones.

Lamentations 3:12
Daleth. He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for his arrows.

Psalm 38:1
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