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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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Day,
Night,
Selah,
Summer

Cross References

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Ministry on This Verse

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hand.
Psa. 38:2‑8• 2For thine arrows have entered into me,{HR}And thy hand hath come down upon me.
 3There is no soundness in my flesh because of thine anger;{HR}There is no peace in my bones because of my sin.
 4For mine iniquities have passed over my head;{HR}As a heavy burden they are too heavy for me.
 5My wounds have stunk;{HR}They have consumed away because of my folly.
 6I have been bowed down,{HR}I have been brought low to the utmost,{HR}All the day have I walked mourning.
 7For my loins are filled with burning,{HR}And there is no soundness in my flesh.
 8I have been feeble and broken to the uttermost;{HR}I have groaned because of the groaning of my heart. (Psa. 38:2‑8)
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Psa. 39:10‑11• 10Remove from me thy stroke;{HR}From the strife of thy hand I am consumed.
 11With chastisement for iniquity thou correctest man,{HR}And consumest like the moth what he desireth;{HR}Only vanity is every man. Selah. (Psa. 39:10‑11)
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1 Sam. 5:6‑7,9,11• 6But the hand of Jehovah was heavy upon them of Ashdod, and He destroyed them, and smote them with hemorrhoids, even Ashdod and the coasts thereof.
 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 sore 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 they had hemorrhoids in their secret parts.
 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 goeth up by the way of his own coast to Beth-shemesh, 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. (1 Sam. 6:9)
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Job 16:21• 21That he would decide for the man with God,{HR}As a son of man for his friend; (Job 16:21)
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Job 33:7• 7Behold, my terror will not affright thee,{HR}And my hand shall not be heavy on thee. (Job 33:7)
moisture.
Psa. 22:15• 15My strength has been dried up like a potsherd,{HR}And my tongue is cleaving to my jaws;{HR}And in the dust of death thou settest me. (Psa. 22:15)
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Psa. 90:6‑7• 6In the morning it flourisheth and changeth;{HR}At the evening it is mown and withereth.
 7For we decay in thine anger,{HR}And in thy wrath are we confounded. (Psa. 90:6‑7)
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Psa. 102:3‑4• 3For my days are consumed like smoke,{HR}And my bones are burned as a firebrand.
 4My heart is smitten as grass and dried up;{HR}For I forget to eat my bread. (Psa. 102:3‑4)
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Job 30:30• 30My skin off me is black,{HR}And my bones are burned with heat, (Job 30:30)
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Lam. 4:8• 8Their aspect is darker than dusk, they are not known in the streets;{HR}Their skin cleaveth to their bones, it is dried up like a stick. (Lam. 4:8)
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Lam. 5:10• 10Our skins glow like an oven because of the hot blasts of famine. (Lam. 5:10)
• 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. (“Psalm 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.

W. Kelly Translation

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For by day and by night thy hand is heavy upon me;{HR}My moisture hath been changed into the droughts of summer. Selah.