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For your arrows have sunk into me,
    and your hand has come down on me.(A)

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Your arrows(A) have pierced me,
    and your hand has come down on me.

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For day and night your hand was heavy upon me;
    my strength was dried up[a] as by the heat of summer. Selah(A)

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  1. 32.4 Meaning of Heb uncertain

For day and night
    your hand was heavy(A) on me;
my strength was sapped(B)
    as in the heat of summer.[a]

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  1. Psalm 32:4 The Hebrew has Selah (a word of uncertain meaning) here and at the end of verses 5 and 7.

For the arrows of the Almighty[a] are in me;
    my spirit drinks their poison;
    the terrors of God are arrayed against me.(A)

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  1. 6.4 Traditional rendering of Heb Shaddai

The arrows(A) of the Almighty(B) are in me,(C)
    my spirit drinks(D) in their poison;(E)
    God’s terrors(F) are marshaled against me.(G)

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12 he bent his bow and set me
    as a mark for his arrow.(A)

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12 He drew his bow(A)
    and made me the target(B) for his arrows.(C)

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But God will shoot his arrow at them;
    they will be wounded suddenly.

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But God will shoot them with his arrows;
    they will suddenly be struck down.

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10 Remove your stroke from me;
    I am worn down by the blows[a] of your hand.(A)

11 “You chastise mortals
    in punishment for sin,
consuming like a moth what is dear to them;
    surely everyone is a mere breath. Selah(B)

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  1. 39.10 Heb hostility

10 Remove your scourge from me;
    I am overcome by the blow(A) of your hand.(B)
11 When you rebuke(C) and discipline(D) anyone for their sin,
    you consume(E) their wealth like a moth(F)
    surely everyone is but a breath.(G)

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12 For you will put them to flight;
    you will aim at their faces with your bows.(A)

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12 You will make them turn their backs(A)
    when you aim at them with drawn bow.

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And watch: if it goes up on the way to its own land, to Beth-shemesh, then it is he who has done us this great harm; but if not, then we shall know that it is not his hand that struck us; it happened to us by chance.”(A)

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but keep watching it. If it goes up to its own territory, toward Beth Shemesh,(A) then the Lord has brought this great disaster on us. But if it does not, then we will know that it was not his hand that struck us but that it happened to us by chance.”

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11 They sent therefore and gathered together all the lords of the Philistines and said, “Send away the ark of the God of Israel, and let it return to its own place, that it may not kill us and our[a] people.” For there was a deathly panic throughout the whole city. The hand of God was very heavy there;(A)

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  1. 5.11 Heb me and my

11 So they called together all the rulers(A) of the Philistines and said, “Send the ark of the god of Israel away; let it go back to its own place, or it[a] will kill us and our people.” For death had filled the city with panic; God’s hand was very heavy on it.

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  1. 1 Samuel 5:11 Or he

The hand of the Lord was heavy upon the people of Ashdod, and he terrified and struck them with tumors, both in Ashdod and in its territory.(A)

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The Lord’s hand(A) was heavy on the people of Ashdod and its vicinity; he brought devastation(B) on them and afflicted them with tumors.[a](C)

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  1. 1 Samuel 5:6 Hebrew; Septuagint and Vulgate tumors. And rats appeared in their land, and there was death and destruction throughout the city

13 would you then wait until they were grown? Would you then refrain from marrying? No, my daughters, it has been far more bitter for me than for you, because the hand of the Lord has turned against me.”(A)

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13 would you wait until they grew up?(A) Would you remain unmarried for them? No, my daughters. It is more bitter(B) for me than for you, because the Lord’s hand has turned against me!(C)

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15 Indeed, the Lord’s own hand was against them, to root them out from the camp, until all had perished.(A)

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15 The Lord’s hand was against them until he had completely eliminated(A) them from the camp.

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