Remove your scourge away from me. I am overcome by the blow of your hand.
Parallel translations
- KJV Remove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of thine hand.
- BSB Remove Your scourge from me; I am perishing by the force of Your hand.
- NKJV Remove Your plague from me; I am consumed by the blow of Your hand.
- NASB “Remove Your plague from me; Because of the opposition of Your hand I am perishing.
- NLT But please stop striking me! I am exhausted by the blows from your hand.
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Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 7
- Job 9:34Let him take his rod away from me. Let his terror not make me afraid;
- Job 13:21withdraw your hand far from me; and don’t let your terror make me afraid.
- Ps 38:3–4There is no soundness in my flesh because of your indignation, neither is there any health in my bones because of my sin.
- Ps 25:16–17Turn to me, and have mercy on me, for I am desolate and afflicted.
- Ps 32:4For day and night your hand was heavy on me. My strength was sapped in the heat of summer. Selah.
- 1 Sam 6:5Therefore you shall make images of your tumors, and images of your mice that mar the land; and you shall give glory to the God of Israel. Perhaps he will release his hand from you, from your gods, and from your land.
- Job 40:8Will you even annul my judgment? Will you condemn me, that you may be justified?
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