American Standard Version
Psalms 32:4
4For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me:My moisture was changed as with the drought of summer.[Selah
Psalms 32:4 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: my moisture is turned into the drought of summer. Selah.
- New International Version (NIV)For day and night your hand was heavy on me; my strength was sapped as in the heat of summer.
- English Standard Version (ESV)For day and night your hand was heavy upon me; my strength was dried up as by the heat of summer. Selah
- New King James Version (NKJV)For day and night Your hand was heavy upon me; My vitality was turned into the drought of summer. Selah
Context of Psalms 32:4
2Blessed is the man unto whom Jehovah imputeth not iniquity, And in whose spirit there is no guile. 3When I kept silence, my bones wasted away Through my groaning all the day long. For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: My moisture was changed as with the drought of summer. [Selah 5I acknowledged my sin unto thee, And mine iniquity did I not hide: I said, I will confess my transgressions unto Jehovah; And thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin. [Selah 6For this let every one that is godly pray unto thee in a time when thou mayest be found: Surely when the great waters overflow they shall not reach unto him.
Read all of Psalms 32Psalms 32:4 word by word
כִּ֤י׀ יוֹמָ֣ם וָלַיְלָה֮ תִּכְבַּ֥ד עָלַ֗י יָ֫דֶ֥ךָ נֶהְפַּ֥ךְ לְשַׁדִּ֑י בְּחַרְבֹ֖נֵי קַ֣יִץ סֶֽלָה׃Read the interlinear
Cross-references for Psalms 32:4
- Psalms 38:2For thine arrows stick fast in me, And thy hand presseth me sore.
- Psalms 39:10Remove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of thy hand.
- 1 Samuel 5:6But the hand of Jehovah was heavy upon them of Ashdod, and he destroyed them, and smote them with tumors, even Ashdod and the borders thereof.
- 1 Samuel 6:9And see; if it goeth up by the way of its own border to Beth-shemesh, 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.
- Job 16:21That he would maintain the right of a man with God, And of a son of man with his neighbor!
- Job 33:7Behold, my terror shall not make thee afraid, Neither shall my pressure be heavy upon thee.
- Psalms 22:15My strength is dried up like a potsherd; And my tongue cleaveth to my jaws; And thou hast brought me into the dust of death.
- Psalms 90:6In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; In the evening it is cut down, and withereth.
- Psalms 102:3For my days consume away like smoke, And my bones are burned as a firebrand.
- Job 30:30My skin is black, and fallethfrom me, And my bones are burned with heat.
- Lamentations 4:8Their visage is blacker than a coal; they are not known in the streets: Their skin cleaveth to their bones; it is withered, it is become like a stick.
- Lamentations 5:10Our skin is black like an oven, Because of the burning heat of famine.
Commentaries on Psalms 32:4
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 4For day and night - I found no relief even at night. The burden was constant, and was insupportable. Thy hand was heavy upon me - Thy hand seemed to press me down. It weighed upon me. See Job 13:21; Psalm 39:10. It was the remembrance of guilt that troubled him, but that seemed to him to be the hand of God. It was God who brought that guilt to his recollection; and God “kept” the recollection of it before his mind, and on his heart and conscience, so that…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 3-7Verses 3-7 It is very difficult to bring sinful man humbly to accept free mercy, with a full confession of his sins and self-condemnation. But the true and only way to peace of conscience, is, to confess our sins, that they may be forgiven; to declare them that we may be justified. Although repentance and confession do not merit the pardon of transgression, they are needful to the real enjoyment of forgiving mercy. And what tongue can tell the happiness…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 4The psalmist believes his suffering comes directly from the Lord's discipline (compare Psalms 38:2; 39:10).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 3-43-4. A vivid description of felt, but unacknowledged, sin. When--literally, "for," as in Psa 32:4.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Psalms 32
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- The Treasury of David
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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