Psalms 32:4
For day and night Thy hand was heavy upon me; my sap was turned as in the droughts of summer. Selah
JPS TaNaKH 1917
In The King James Version
In Context
3When I kept silence, my bones wore away through my groaning all the day long.
Cross References
1 Samuel 5:6But the hand of the LORD was heavy upon them of Ashdod, and He destroyed them, and smote them with emerods, even Ashdod and the borders thereof.
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 go back to its own place, that it slay us not, and our people'; for there was a deadly discomfiture throughout all the city; the hand of God was very heavy there.
Job 16:21That He would set aright a man contending with God, as a son of man setteth aright his neighbour!
Job 33:7Behold, my terror shall not make thee afraid, neither shall my pressure be heavy upon thee.
Psalms 38:2(38-3) For Thine arrows are gone deep into me, and Thy hand is come down upon me.
Psalms 39:10(39-11) Remove Thy stroke from off me; I am consumed by the blow of Thy hand.
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 →