Psalms 32:4
For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: I am turned in my anguish, whilst the thorn is fastened.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
3Because I was silent my bones grew old; whilst I cried out all the day long.
Cross References
1 Samuel 5:6And the hand of the Lord was heavy upon the Azotians, and he destroyed them, and afflicted Azotus and the coasts thereof with emerods. And in the villages and fields in the midst of that country, there came forth a multitude of mice, and there was the confusion of a great mortality in the city.
1 Samuel 5:11They sent therefore and gathered together all the lords of the Philistines: and they said: Send away the ark of the God of Israel, and let it return into its own place, and not kill us and our people.
Job 16:21My friends are full of words: my eye poureth out tears to God.
Job 33:7But yet let not my wonder terrify thee, and let not my eloquence be burdensome to thee.
Psalms 38:2Rebuke me not, O Lord, in thy indignation; nor chastise me in thy wrath.
Psalms 39:10I was dumb, and I opened not my mouth, because thou hast done it.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 32:2-7
Who Are Blessed. 1 Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered. 2 Blessed is the man unto whom the Lord imputeth not iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no guile. 3 When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long. 4 For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: my moisture is turned into the drought of summer. Selah. 5 I acknowledged my sin unto thee, and mine iniquity have I not hid. I said, I will confess my transgressions unto the Lord ; and thou forgavest… Read the whole commentary →