Psalms 32 · Verse 4

Psalms 32:4

For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: my moisture is turned into the drought of summer. Selah.
Psalms 32:4, King James Version

Psalms 32:4 in other translations

BSBFor day and night Your hand was heavy upon me; my strength was drained as in the summer heat. Selah
WEBFor day and night your hand was heavy on me. My strength was sapped in the heat of summer. Selah.
ASVFor day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: My moisture was changed as with the drought of summer. [Selah
YLTWhen by day and by night Thy hand is heavy upon me, My moisture hath been changed Into the droughts of summer. Selah.
DARBYFor day and night thy hand was heavy upon me; my moisture was turned into the drought of summer. Selah.
BBEFor the weight of your hand was on me day and night; my body became dry like the earth in summer. (Selah.)
WebsterFor day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: my moisture is turned into the drouth of summer. Selah.

What does Psalms 32:4 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Psalms 32:3-4

3-4. A vivid description of felt, but unacknowledged, sin. When--literally, "for," as in Psa 32:4.

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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Psalms 32:3-7

It is very difficult to bring sinful man humbly to accept free mercy, with a full confession of his sins and self-condemnation. But the true and only way to peace of conscience, is, to confess our sins, that they may be forgiven; to declare them that we may be justified. Although repentance and confession do not merit the pardon of transgression, they are needful to the real enjoyment of forgiving mercy. And what…

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Psalms 32:4 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

כִּ֤י\׀kiforH3588
יוֹמָ֣םyo.Mamby dayH3119
וָלַיְלָה֮va.lay.Lahand nightH3915
תִּכְבַּ֥דtikh.Badit was heavyH3513
עָלַ֗י'a.Laion meH5921
יָ֫דֶ֥ךָya.De.khahand yourH3027
נֶהְפַּ֥ךְneh.Pakhit was changedH2015
לְשַׁדִּ֑יle.sha.Dijuice myH3955
בְּחַרְבֹ֖נֵיbe.char.Vo.neiby [the] dry heat<s> ofH2725
קַ֣יִץKa.yitzsummerH7019
סֶֽלָה\׃Se.lahSelahH5542

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Psalms 32:4

  • 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.

  • Psalms 38:2-8

    For thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand presseth me sore. There is no soundness in my flesh because of thine anger; neither is there any rest in my bones because of my sin. For mine iniquities are gone over mine head: as an heavy burden they are too heavy for me. My wounds stink and are corrupt because of my foolishness. …

  • Psalms 39:10-11

    Remove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of thine hand. When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: surely every man is vanity. Selah.

  • 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. My heart is smitten, and withered like grass; so that I forget to eat my bread.

  • Psalms 90:6-7

    In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth. For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath are we troubled.

  • 1 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.

  • Lamentations 4:8

    Their visage is blacker than a coal; they are not known in the streets: their skin cleaveth to their bones; it is withered, it is become like a stick.

  • 1 Samuel 5:6-7

    But the hand of the Lord was heavy upon them of Ashdod, and he destroyed them, and smote them with emerods, even Ashdod and the coasts thereof. And when the men of Ashdod saw that it was so, they said, The ark of the God of Israel shall not abide with us: for his hand is sore upon us, and upon Dagon our god.

  • Lamentations 5:10

    Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.

  • Job 30:30

    My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.

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hand.
38:2-8; 39:10,11; 1Sa 5:6,7,9,11; 6:9; Job 16:21; 33:7
moisture.
22:15; 90:6,7; 102:3,4; Job 30:30; La 4:8; 5:10

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Context

  • Psalms 32:3

    When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long.

  • Psalms 32:4

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

  • Psalms 32:5

    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.

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Psalms 32:4 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Porque de día y de noche se agravó sobre mí tu mano; volvióse mi verdor en sequedades de estío. (Selah.)
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
Car jour et nuit ta main s’appesantissait sur moi; ma vigueur s’est changée en une sécheresse d’été. Sélah.
German
Elberfelder 1871
Denn Tag und Nacht lastete auf mir deine Hand; verwandelt ward mein Saft in Sommerdürre.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
Quia rectum est verbum Domini, et omnia opera ejus in fide.