Psalms 32:4
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“For day and night Your hand was heavy upon me; my strength was drained as in the summer heat. Selah”
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“For day and night Your hand was heavy upon me; my strength was drained as in the summer heat. Selah”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: my moisture is turned into the drought of summer. Selah.”
King James Version · Public Domain“For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: My moisture was changed as with the drought of summer. [Selah”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“When by day and by night Thy hand is heavy upon me, My moisture hath been changed Into the droughts of summer. Selah.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Psalms 32:4 — 16 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Ruth 1:13would you wait for them to grow up? Would you refrain from having husbands? No, my daughters, it grieves me very much for your sakes that the hand of the LORD has gone out against me.”
- 1 Samuel 5:6Now the hand of the LORD was heavy on the people of Ashdod and its vicinity, ravaging them and afflicting them with tumors.
- 1 Samuel 5:9But after they had moved the ark to Gath, the LORD’s hand was also against that city, throwing it into great confusion and afflicting the men of the city, both young and old, with an outbreak of tumors.
- 1 Samuel 5:11Then the Ekronites assembled all the rulers of the Philistines and said, “Send away the ark of the God of Israel. It must return to its place, so that it will not kill us and our people!” For a deadly confusion had pervaded the city; the hand of God was heavy upon it.
- 1 Samuel 6:9but keep watching it. If it goes up the road to its homeland, toward Beth-shemesh, it is the LORD who has brought on us this great disaster. But if it does not, then we will know that it was not His hand that punished us and that it happened by chance.”
- Job 16:21Oh, that a man might plead with God as he pleads with his neighbor!
- Job 30:30My skin grows black and peels, and my bones burn with fever.
- Job 33:7Surely no fear of me should terrify you; nor will my hand be heavy upon you.
- Psalms 22:15My strength is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth. You lay me in the dust of death.
- Psalms 38:2For Your arrows have pierced me deeply, and Your hand has pressed down on me.
- Psalms 38:3There is no soundness in my body because of Your anger; there is no rest in my bones because of my sin.
- Psalms 39:10Remove Your scourge from me; I am perishing by the force of Your hand.
- Psalms 90:6in the morning it springs up new, but by evening it fades and withers.
- Psalms 102:3For my days vanish like smoke, and my bones burn like glowing embers.
- Lamentations 4:8But now their appearance is blacker than soot; they are not recognized in the streets. Their skin has shriveled on their bones; it has become as dry as a stick.
- Lamentations 5:10Our skin is as hot as an oven with fever from our hunger.
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