Psalms 32:3
When I kept silence, my bones wore away through my groaning all the day long.
JPS TaNaKH 1917
In The King James Version
When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long.
In Context
2Happy is the man unto whom the LORD counteth not iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no guile.
4For day and night Thy hand was heavy upon me; my sap was turned as in the droughts of summer. Selah
Cross References
Genesis 3:8And they heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden toward the cool of the day; and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God amongst the trees of the garden.
2 Samuel 11:27And when the mourning was past, David sent and took her home to his house, and she became his wife, and bore him a son. But the thing that David had done displeased the LORD.
Job 3:24For my sighing cometh instead of my food, and my roarings are poured out like water.
Job 30:30My skin is black, and falleth from me, and my bones are burned with heat.
Psalms 22:1(22-1) For the Leader; upon Aijeleth ha-Shahar. A Psalm of David. (22-2) My God, my God, why hast Thou forsaken me, and art far from my help at the words of my cry?
Psalms 38:3(38-4) There is no soundness in my flesh because of Thine indignation; neither is there any health in my bones because of my sin.
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 →