Psalms 32:4 KJV — MannaFest

Psalms 32:4

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

KJV

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ASV

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

WEB

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

YLT

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

DBT

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

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Psalms — The canon's longest book — 150 Psalms edited into five doxology-bookended books, composed across a millennium, attributed to David, Asaph, Korah's sons, Moses, Solomon, Heman, Ethan, and anonymous voices. A ''Torah of David''; the Bible's longest continuous liturgical-devotional corpus.

Author: David principally (73 Psalms + 2 NT-cited); Asaph, Sons of Korah, Solomon, Moses, Heman, Ethan; ~50 anonymous.
Date: Composed c. 1400 BC (Mosaic Ps 90) through the post-exilic period (Ps 126 ''when the Lord turned again the captivity of Zion''). Roughly a millennium of composition; editorial compilation likely into the Persian period.

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Matthew 11:28
Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
Psalms 38:2–8
For thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand presseth me sore.
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.
Ruth 1:13
Would ye tarry for them till they were grown? would ye stay for them from having husbands? nay, my daughters; for it grieveth me much for your sakes that the hand of the Lord is gone out against me.
1 Samuel 5:6
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.

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thy hand--of God, or power in distressing him (Ps 38:2). moisture--vital juices of the body, the parching heat of which expresses the anguish of the soul. On the other figures, compare Ps 6:2, 7;

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

Note, He that covers his sin shall not prosper; some inward trouble is required in repentance, but there is much worse in impenitency. Concerning the true and only way to peace of conscience. We are here taught to confess our sins, that they may be forgiven, to declare them, that we may be justified.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

What an encouragement is this to poor penitents, and what an assurance does it give us that, if we confess our sins, we shall find God, not only faithful and just, but gracious and kind, to forgive us our sins! Concerning the good use that we are to make of the experience David had had of God's readiness to forgive his sins (

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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