Psalms 32:4
For, day and night, heavy upon me, was thy hand,—Changed was my life-sap into the drought of summer. [Selah.]
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
In Context
3When I kept silence, my bones became worn out, Through my groaning all the day;
Cross References
1 Samuel 5:6Then was the hand of Yahweh heavy against them of Ashdod, and he astounded them,—and smote with tumours Ashdod and her bounds.
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, and restore it to its own place, that it slay not me, and my people. For there had come a deadly consternation, throughout all the city, heavy exceedingly, was the hand of God there.
Job 16:21That one might plead, for a man, with GOD,—Even a son of man, for his friend!
Job 33:7Lo! my terror, will not startle thee, nor, my hand, upon thee, be heavy.
Psalms 38:2For, thine arrows, have sunk down into me, and thy hand, presseth heavily upon me.
Psalms 39:10Remove from off me thy stroke, Because of the hostility 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 →