Psalm 32:4 {31:4}
Good News Translation
Day and night you punished me, LORD; my strength was completely drained, as moisture is dried up by the summer heat.

New Revised Standard Version
For day and night your hand was heavy upon me; my strength was dried up as by the heat of summer. Selah

Contemporary English Version
Night and day your hand weighed heavily on me, and my strength was gone as in the summer heat.

New American Bible
For day and night your hand was heavy upon me; my strength withered as in dry summer heat. Selah

Douay-Rheims Bible
For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: I am turned in my anguish, whilst the thorn is fastened.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: I am turned in my anguish, whilst the thorn is fastened.

hand

Psalm 38:2-8 For thy arrows are fastened in me: and thy hand hath been strong upon me. . . .

Psalm 39:10,11 Remove thy scourges from me. The strength of thy hand hath made me faint in rebukes: . . .

1 Samuel 5:6,7,9,11 And the hand of the Lord was heavy upon the Azotians, and he destroyed them, and afflicted Azotus and the coasts thereof with emerods. And in the villages and fields in the midst of that country, there came forth a multitude of mice, and there was the confusion of a great mortality in the city. . . .

1 Samuel 6:9 And you shall look: and if it go up by the way of his own coasts, towards Bethsames, then he hath done us this great evil: but if not, we shall know that it is not his hand hath touched us, but it hath happened by chance.

Job 16:21 And O that a man might so be judged with God, as the son of man is judged with his companion!

Job 33:7 But yet let not my wonder terrify thee, and let not my eloquence be burdensome to thee.

moisture

Psalm 22:15 My strength is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue hath cleaved to my jaws: and thou hast brought me down into the dust of death.

Psalm 90:6,7 In the morning man shall grow up like grass; in the morning he shall flourish and pass away: in the evening he shall fall, grow dry, and wither. . . .

Psalm 102:3,4 For my days are vanished like smoke, and my bones are grown dry like fuel for the fire. . . .

Job 30:30 My skin is become black upon me, and my bones are dried up with heat.

Lamentations 4:8 Heth. Their face is now made blacker than coals, and they are not known in the streets: their skin hath stuck to their bones, it is withered, and is become like wood.

Lamentations 5:10 Our skin was burnt as an oven, by reason of the violence of the famine.

Context
The Providence of God
3Because I was silent my bones grew old; whilst I cried out all the day long. 4For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: I am turned in my anguish, whilst the thorn is fastened.5I have acknowledged my sin to thee, and my injustice I have not concealed. I said I will confess against my self my injustice to the Lord: and thou hast forgiven the wickedness of my sin.…
Cross References
Acts 13:11
And now behold, the hand of the Lord is upon thee: and thou shalt be blind, not seeing the sun for a time. And immediately there fell a mist and darkness upon him: and going about, he sought some one to lead him by the hand.

Ruth 1:13
If you would wait till they were grown up, and come to man's estate, you would be old women before you marry. Do not so, my daughters, I beseech you: for I am grieved the more for your distress, and the hand of the Lord is gone out against me.

1 Samuel 5:6
And the hand of the Lord was heavy upon the Azotians, and he destroyed them, and afflicted Azotus and the coasts thereof with emerods. And in the villages and fields in the midst of that country, there came forth a multitude of mice, and there was the confusion of a great mortality in the city.

Job 23:2
Now also my words are in bitterness, and the hand of my scourge is more grievous than my mourning.

Job 33:7
But yet let not my wonder terrify thee, and let not my eloquence be burdensome to thee.

Psalm 22:15
My strength is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue hath cleaved to my jaws: and thou hast brought me down into the dust of death.

Psalm 38:2
For thy arrows are fastened in me: and thy hand hath been strong upon me.

Psalm 39:3
My heart grew hot within me: and in my meditation a fire shall flame out.

Psalm 39:10
Remove thy scourges from me. The strength of thy hand hath made me faint in rebukes:

Psalm 88:7
Thy wrath is strong over me: and all thy waves thou hast brought in upon me.

Isaiah 38:13
I hoped till morning, as a lion so hath he broken all my bones: from morning even to night thou wilt make an end of me.

Psalm 32:3
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