For day and night Your (A)hand was heavy upon me;
My vitality was turned into the drought of summer. Selah

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For Your arrows pierce me deeply,
And Your hand presses me down.

There is no soundness in my flesh
Because of Your anger,
Nor any health in my bones
Because of my sin.
For my iniquities have gone over my head;
Like a heavy burden they are too heavy for me.
My wounds are foul and festering
Because of my foolishness.

I am [a]troubled, I am bowed down greatly;
I go mourning all the day long.
For my loins are full of inflammation,
And there is no soundness in my flesh.
I am feeble and severely broken;
I groan because of the turmoil of my heart.

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  1. Psalm 38:6 Lit. bent down

11 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 back to its own place, so that it does not kill us and our people.” For there was a deadly destruction throughout all the city; the hand of God was very heavy there.

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10 (A)Remove Your plague from me;
I am consumed by the blow of Your hand.
11 When with rebukes You correct man for iniquity,
You make his beauty (B)melt away like a moth;
Surely every man is vapor. Selah

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15 (A)My strength is dried up like a potsherd,
And (B)My tongue clings to My jaws;
You have brought Me to the dust of death.

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(A)Surely no fear of me will terrify you,
Nor will my hand be heavy on you.

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For my days [a]are (A)consumed like smoke,
And my bones are burned like a hearth.
My heart is stricken and withered like grass,
So that I forget to eat my bread.

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  1. Psalm 102:3 Lit. end in

In the morning it flourishes and grows up;
In the evening it is cut down and withers.

For we have been consumed by Your anger,
And by Your wrath we are terrified.

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10 Our skin is hot as an oven,
Because of the fever of famine.

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Now their appearance is blacker than soot;
They go unrecognized in the streets;
(A)Their skin clings to their bones,
It has become as dry as wood.

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30 (A)My skin grows black and falls from me;
(B)My bones burn with fever.

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21 (A)Oh, that one might plead for a man with God,
As a man pleads for his [a]neighbor!

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  1. Job 16:21 friend

And watch: if it goes up the road to its own territory, to (A)Beth Shemesh, then He has done [a]us this great evil. But if not, then (B)we shall know that it is not His hand that struck us—it happened to us by chance.”

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  1. 1 Samuel 6:9 this calamity to us

So it was, after they had carried it away, that (A)the hand of the Lord was against the city with a very great destruction; and He struck the men of the city, both small and great, [a]and tumors broke out on them.

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  1. 1 Samuel 5:9 Vg. and they had tumors in their secret parts

But the (A)hand of the Lord was heavy on the people of Ashdod, and He (B)ravaged them and struck them with (C)tumors,[a] both Ashdod and its (D)territory. And when the men of Ashdod saw how it was, they said, “The ark of the (E)God of Israel must not remain with us, for His hand is harsh toward us and Dagon our god.”

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Samuel 5:6 Probably bubonic plague. LXX, Vg. add And in the midst of their land rats sprang up, and there was a great death panic in the city.

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