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Psalm 32

Psa. 32:4 KJV (With Strong’s)

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For day
yowmam (Hebrew #3119)
daily
KJV usage: daily, (by, in the) day(-time).
Pronounce: yo-mawm'
Origin: from 3117
and night
layil (Hebrew #3915)
also laylah {lah'- yel-aw}; from the same as 3883; properly, a twist (away of the light), i.e. night; figuratively, adversity
KJV usage: ((mid-))night (season).
Pronounce: lah'-yil
Origin: or (Isa. 21:11) leyl {lale}
thy hand
yad (Hebrew #3027)
a hand (the open one (indicating power, means, direction, etc.), in distinction from 3709, the closed one); used (as noun, adverb, etc.) in a great variety of applications, both literally and figuratively, both proximate and remote (as follows)
KJV usage: (+ be) able, X about, + armholes, at, axletree, because of, beside, border, X bounty, + broad, (broken-)handed, X by, charge, coast, + consecrate, + creditor, custody, debt, dominion, X enough, + fellowship, force, X from, hand(-staves, -y work), X he, himself, X in, labour, + large, ledge, (left-)handed, means, X mine, ministry, near, X of, X order, ordinance, X our, parts, pain, power, X presumptuously, service, side, sore, state, stay, draw with strength, stroke, + swear, terror, X thee, X by them, X themselves, X thine own, X thou, through, X throwing, + thumb, times, X to, X under, X us, X wait on, (way-)side, where, + wide, X with (him, me, you), work, + yield, X yourselves.
Pronounce: yawd
Origin: a primitive word
was heavy
kabad (Hebrew #3513)
a primitive root; to be heavy, i.e. in a bad sense (burdensome, severe, dull) or in a good sense (numerous, rich, honorable; causatively, to make weighty (in the same two senses)
KJV usage: abounding with, more grievously afflict, boast, be chargeable, X be dim, glorify, be (make) glorious (things), glory, (very) great, be grievous, harden, be (make) heavy, be heavier, lay heavily, (bring to, come to, do, get, be had in) honour (self), (be) honourable (man), lade, X more be laid, make self many, nobles, prevail, promote (to honour), be rich, be (go) sore, stop.
Pronounce: kaw-bad'
Origin: or kabed {kaw-bade'}
upon me: my moisture
lshad (Hebrew #3955)
apparently juice, i.e. (figuratively) vigor; also a sweet or fat cake
KJV usage: fresh, moisture.
Pronounce: lesh-ad'
Origin: from an unused root of uncertain meaning
is turned
haphak (Hebrew #2015)
to turn about or over; by implication, to change, overturn, return, pervert
KJV usage: X become, change, come, be converted, give, make (a bed), overthrow (-turn), perverse, retire, tumble, turn (again, aside, back, to the contrary, every way).
Pronounce: haw-fak'
Origin: a primitive root
into the drought
charabown (Hebrew #2725)
parching heat
KJV usage: drought.
Pronounce: khar-aw-bone'
Origin: from 2717
of summer
qayits (Hebrew #7019)
harvest (as the crop), whether the product (grain or fruit) or the (dry) season
KJV usage: summer (fruit, house).
Pronounce: kah'-yits
Origin: from 6972
. Selah
celah (Hebrew #5542)
suspension (of music), i.e. pause
KJV usage: Selah.
Pronounce: seh'-law
Origin: from 5541
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hand.
Psa. 38:2‑8• 2For thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand cometh down upon me.
3There is no soundness in my flesh because of thine indignation; no peace in my bones, because of my sin.
4For mine iniquities are gone over my head: as a heavy burden they are too heavy for me.
5My wounds stink, they are corrupt, because of my foolishness.
6I am depressed; I am bowed down beyond measure; I go mourning all the day.
7For my loins are full of burning, and there is no soundness in my flesh.
8I am faint and broken beyond measure; I roar by reason of the agitation of my heart.
(Psa. 38:2‑8)
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Psa. 39:10‑11• 10Remove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of thy hand.
11When thou with rebukes dost correct a man for iniquity, thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: surely, every man is vanity. Selah.
(Psa. 39:10‑11)
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1 Sam. 5:6‑7,9,11• 6And the hand of Jehovah was heavy upon them of Ashdod, and he laid them waste, and smote them with hemorrhoids,--Ashdod and its borders.
7And when the men of Ashdod saw that it was so, they said, The ark of the God of Israel shall not abide with us; for his hand is severe upon us, and upon Dagon our god.
9And it came to pass that, after they had carried it about, the hand of Jehovah was against the city with very great panic; and he smote the men of the city, both small and great, and hemorrhoids broke out upon them.
11And they sent and gathered all the lords of the Philistines, and said, Send away the ark of the God of Israel, and let it go again to its own place, that it kill us not, and our people. For there was deadly alarm throughout the city: the hand of God was very heavy there;
(1 Sam. 5:6‑7,9,11)
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1 Sam. 6:9• 9And see, if it go up by the way of its own border to Beth-shemesh, it is he who has done us this great evil; if not, then we shall know that it is not his hand that touched us; it was a chance that happened to us. (1 Sam. 6:9)
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Job 16:21• 21Oh that there were arbitration for a man with +God, as a son of man for his friend! (Job 16:21)
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Job 33:7• 7Behold, my terror shall not make thee afraid, nor my burden be heavy upon thee. (Job 33:7)
moisture.
 When the soul kept silent, refusing to confess his sins, God’s hand was heavy upon him; day and night conscience gave him no rest. (Psalms 32 by H. Smith)

J. N. Darby Translation

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