Psalms 32:4

What does Psalms 32:4 mean?

A plain-English look at Psalms 32:4 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

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

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

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

BBE

Bible in Basic English · 1949

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

YLT

Young's Literal Translation · 1862

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

DRA

Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752

For the word of the Lord is right, and all his works are done with faithfulness.

DBY

Darby Bible · 1890

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

Context

v.3When I kept silence, my bones wasted away Through my groaning all the day long.

v.4This passage

v.5I acknowledged my sin unto thee, And mine iniquity did I not hide: I said, I will confess my transgressions unto Jehovah; And thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin. [Selah

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Psalms 102:3

    For my days consume away like smoke, And my bones are burned as a firebrand.

  • 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 39:10

    Remove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of thy hand.

  • 1 Samuel 5:9

    And it was so, that, after they had carried it about, the hand of Jehovah was against the city with a very great discomfiture: and he smote the men of the city, both small and great; and tumors brake out upon them.

  • 1 Samuel 5:6

    But the hand of Jehovah was heavy upon them of Ashdod, and he destroyed them, and smote them with tumors, even Ashdod and the borders thereof.

  • Job 30:30

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

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