"For thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand presseth me sore."
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For indeed the hand of the LORD was against them, to destroy them from among the host, until they were consumed.
Would 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.
But 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.
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 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.
And see, if it goeth up by the way of his own coast to Bethshemesh, 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.
Therefore shalt thou make them turn their back, when thou shalt make ready thine arrows upon thy strings against the face of them.
Remove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of thine hand.
But God shall shoot at them with an arrow; suddenly shall they be wounded.
He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.
For 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.
For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: my moisture is turned into the drought of summer. Selah.
For your arrows have gone into my flesh, and I am crushed under the weight of your hand.
For thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand cometh down upon me.
For thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand presseth me sore.
\38:1\A Psalm of David, to bring to remembrance. O LORD, rebuke me not in thy wrath: neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure.
For your arrows have pierced me, Your hand presses hard on me.
For Thine arrows have come down on me, And Thou lettest down upon me Thy hand.