Psalms 32:4 · KJV
“For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: my moisture is turned into the drought of summer. Selah.”
— Psalms 32:4
When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long.
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.
Psalms 32 — Context
Blessed {is} the man unto whom the LORD imputeth not iniquity, and in whose spirit {there is} no guile.
3When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long.
4For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: my moisture is turned into the drought of summer. Selah.
5I 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.
6For 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. {when...: Heb. of finding}
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. {us not...: Heb. me not, and my}
Psalms 38:2-8
For thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand presseth me sore.
Psalms 39:10-11
Remove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of thine hand. {blow: Heb. conflict}
Job 33:7
Behold, my terror shall not make thee afraid, neither shall my hand be heavy upon thee.
Psalms 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.
Psalms 102:3-4
For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as an hearth. {like...: or, (as some read) into smoke}
Psalms 90:6-7
In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth.
Job 16:21
O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man {pleadeth} for his neighbour! {neighbour: or, friend}