Psalm 32:4 “For day and night Your hand was heavy upon me; my strength was drained…”

Psalm 32:4

For day and night Your hand was heavy upon me; my strength was drained as in the summer heat. Selah

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: my moisture is turned into the drought of summer. Selah.

World English Bible

For day and night your hand was heavy on me. My strength was sapped in the heat of summer. Selah.

American Standard Version

For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: My moisture was changed as with the drought of summer. [Selah

Geneva Bible 1599

(For thine hand is heauie vpon me, day and night: and my moysture is turned into ye drought of summer. Selah)

Darby Translation

For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me; my moisture was turned into the drought of summer. Selah.

Young's Literal Translation

When by day and by night Thy hand is heavy upon me, My moisture hath been changed Into the droughts of summer. Selah.

Bible in Basic English

For the weight of your hand was on me day and night; my body became dry like the earth in summer. (Selah.)

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Cross references

“hand”

Psalm 38:2–8 1 Samuel 5:11 Job 33:7 1 Samuel 6:9 Job 16:21 1 Samuel 5:9

Psalm 38:2–8 · BSB

For Your arrows have pierced me deeply, and Your hand has pressed down on me.

1 Samuel 5:11 · BSB

Then the Ekronites called together all the rulers of the Philistines and said, “Send away the ark of the God of Israel. It must return to its place, so that it will not kill us and our people!” For a deadly confusion had…

Job 33:7 · BSB

Surely no fear of me should terrify you; nor will my hand be heavy upon you.

1 Samuel 6:9 · BSB

but keep watching it. If it goes up the road to its homeland, toward Beth-shemesh, it is the LORD who has brought on us this great disaster. But if it does not, then we will know that it was not His hand that punished us…

Job 16:21 · BSB

Oh, that a man might plead with God as he pleads with his neighbor!

1 Samuel 5:9 · BSB

But after they had moved the ark to Gath, the LORD’s hand was also against that city, throwing it into great confusion and afflicting the men of the city, both young and old, with an outbreak of tumors.

“moisture”

Psalm 22:15 Job 30:30 Lamentations 4:8 Lamentations 5:10 Psalm 90:6 Psalm 90:7

Psalm 22:15 · BSB

My strength is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth. You lay me in the dust of death.

Job 30:30 · BSB

My skin grows black and peels, and my bones burn with fever.

Lamentations 4:8 · BSB

But now their appearance is blacker than soot; they are not recognized in the streets. Their skin has shriveled on their bones; it has become as dry as a stick.

Lamentations 5:10 · BSB

Our skin is as hot as an oven with fever from our hunger.

Psalm 90:6 · BSB

in the morning it springs up new, but by evening it fades and withers.

Psalm 90:7 · BSB

For we are consumed by Your anger and terrified by Your wrath.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

3When I kept silent, my bones became brittle from my groaning all day long.

5Then I acknowledged my sin to You and did not hide my iniquity. I said, “I will confess my transgressions to the LORD,” and You forgave the guilt of my sin. Selah

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