KJV King James Version
For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: my moisture is turned into the drought of summer. Selah.
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Psalm 32:4
For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: my moisture is turned into the drought of summer. Selah.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
For day and night Your hand was heavy upon me; my strength was drained as in the summer heat. Selah
WEB World English Bible
For day and night your hand was heavy on me. My strength was sapped in the heat of summer. Selah.
ASV American Standard Version
For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: My moisture was changed as with the drought of summer.[Selah
YLT 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.
Surrounding context — Psalm 32
1 [A Psalm] of David, Maschil. Blessed [is he whose] transgression [is] forgiven, [whose] sin [is] covered.
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.
4 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.
7 Thou [art] my hiding place; thou shalt preserve me from trouble; thou shalt compass me about with songs of deliverance. Selah.
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These Hebrew/Greek tokens are linked by Strong's number. Click one for its lexicon definition and other occurrences.
כִּ֤י׀H3588 · kiforיוֹמָ֣םH3119 · yo.mamby dayוָלַיְלָה֮H3915 · lay.lahnightתִּכְבַּ֥דH3513 · ka.vadto honor: honourעָלַ֗יH5921 · aluponיָ֫דֶ֥ךָH3027 · yadhandנֶהְפַּ֥ךְH2015 · ha.phakhto overturnלְשַׁדִּ֑יH3955 · le.shadjuicy bitבְּחַרְבֹ֖נֵיH2725 · cha.ra.vondroughtקַ֣יִץH7019 · qa.yitssummerסֶֽלָה׃H5542 · se.lahSelah
Cross-references
Psalm 38:2-8For thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand presseth me sore.1 Samuel 5:11So 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.Psalm 39:10-11Remove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of thine hand.Job 33:7Behold, my terror shall not make thee afraid, neither shall my hand be heavy upon thee.Psalm 22:15My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue cleaveth to my jaws; and thou hast brought me into the dust of death.Psalm 102:3-4For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as an hearth.Psalm 90:6-7In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth.Lamentations 4:8Their 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.Job 30:30My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.1 Samuel 5:6-7But 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.Job 16:21O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man [pleadeth] for his neighbour!1 Samuel 6:9And see, if it goeth up by the way of his own coast to Bethshemesh, [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 5:10Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.1 Samuel 5:9And it was [so], that, after they had carried it about, the hand of the LORD was against the city with a very great destruction: and he smote the men of the city, both small and great, and they had emerods in their secret parts.
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