Psalms 32:4
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.
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 the iniquity of my sin. Selah.
6 For this shall every one that is godly pray unto thee in a time when thou mayest be found: surely in the floods of great waters they shall not come nigh unto him.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- For day and night Your hand was heavy upon me; my strength was drained as in the summer heat. Selah
- KJV
- For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: my moisture is turned into the drought of summer. Selah.
- WEB
- For day and night your hand was heavy on me. My strength was sapped in the heat of summer. Selah.
- ASV
- For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: My moisture was changed [as] with the drought of summer. Selah
- DARBY
- For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me; my moisture was turned into the drought of summer. Selah.
- BLB
- For day and night Your hand was heavy upon me; my juice was overturned, [as] in the drought of summer. Selah
- ÅB
- For dag og natt lå hånden din tungt på meg;
livskraften min svant som i sommertørke.
Sela. - OTB
- For dag og natt lå din hånd tungt på meg;
Min livskraft svant som i sommerens hete.
Sela - B1930
- For dag og natt lå din hånd tungt på mig, min livssaft svant som ved sommerens tørke. Sela.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
1 Samuel 5:11
So they sent and gathered together all the lords of the Philistines, and said, Send away the ark of the God of Israel, and let it go again to his own place, that it slay us not, and our people: for there was a deadly destruction throughout all the city; the hand of God was very heavy there.
Read in contextPsalms 38:2–8
For thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand presseth me sore.
Read in contextPsalms 39:10–11
Remove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of thine hand.
Read in contextJob 33:7
Behold, my terror shall not make thee afraid, neither shall my hand be heavy upon thee.
Read in contextPsalms 22:15
My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue cleaveth to my jaws; and thou hast brought me into the dust of death.
Read in contextPsalms 102:3–4
For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as an hearth.
Read in contextPsalms 90:6–7
In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth.
Read in context1 Samuel 6:9
And see, if it goeth up by the way of his own coast to Beth-shemesh, then he hath done us this great evil: but if not, then we shall know that it is not his hand that smote us; it was a chance that happened to us.
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