Psalms 32:4
For by day and night lay thy hand heavily upon me: my [life's] moisture hath been changed through the droughts of summer. Selah.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
In Context
3When I kept silence, my bones wasted away through my crying all the day.
Cross References
1 Samuel 5:6And the hand of the Lord became heavy upon the people of Ashdod, and he destroyed them, and smote them with hemorrhoids, even Ashdod and its territory.
1 Samuel 5:11So they sent and gathered together all the lords of the Philistines, and said, Send away the ark of the God of Israel, that it may return to its own place, so that it may not slay us, and our people; for there was a confusion of death throughout all the city; the hand of God was very heavy there.
Job 16:21And oh that a man might plead with God, as one son of earth with the other!
Job 33:7Behold, dread of me cannot terrify thee, and my pressure will not be too heavy upon thee.
Psalms 38:2(38:3) For thy arrows have penetrated into me, and thy hand presseth down upon me.
Psalms 39:10(39:11) Remove thou thy plague away from me: from the blows of thy hand am I consumed.
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 →