Psalms 32:4 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

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

Psalms 32:4 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

For day and night - I found no relief even at night. The burden was constant, and was insupportable. Thy hand was heavy upon me - Thy hand seemed to press me down. It weighed upon me. See Jo...
Psalms 32:4 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

XXXII. Pardon of Sin. Psalms 32:1 f. The joy of Divine pardon. Psalms 32:3-5 . Sin remitted on confession. Psalms 32:6 f. The security of the godly. Read, in time of stress and omit sur...
Psalms 32:4 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

hand. Figure of speech Anthropopatheia. App-6. is . was. into. Some codices, with Aramaean, read "like". Selah. Connecting the trouble of conviction with the confession to which it le...
Psalms 32:4 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

4. For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me. In this verse he explains more fully whence such heavy grief arose; namely, because he felt the hand of God to be sore against him. The great...
Psalms 32:4 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

DISCOURSE: 547 TRUE BLESSEDNESS DECLARED Psalms 32:1-6 . Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered. Blessed is the man unto whom the Lord imputeth not iniquity, and in...
Psalms 32:4 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: my moisture is turned into the drought of summer. Selah.
Psalms 32:4 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

My moisture is turned into the drought of summer— Some have inferred, says Dr. Delaney, from Psalms 32:3 , &c. that David continued some time impenitent after the affair with Bathsheba: but ha...
Psalms 32:4 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: my moisture is turned into the drought of summer. Selah. Thy hand was heavy - ( 1 Samuel 5:6 ; 1 Samuel 5:11 ; Job 13:21 .) My moisture ......
Psalms 32:4 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

The subject of the Ps. is the happiness that follows the confession of sin and the experience of forgiveness. This is generally set forth at the beginning ( Psalms 32:1-2 ). Then the Psalmist relates...
Psalms 32:4 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Thy hand was heavy. — The verb, as in “kept silence” in Psalms 32:3 , is properly present — the agony is still vividly present. My moisture. — The Hebrew word is found only once besides ( Numbe...
Psalms 32:4 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Psalms 32:1-11 ONE must have a dull ear not to hear the voice of personal experience in this psalm. It throbs with emotion, and is a burst of rapture from a heart tasting the sweetness of the new...
Psalms 32:4 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

the Song of the Forgiven Psalms 32:1-11 David wrote this psalm, Romans 4:6-8 . Maschil means “to give instruction.” We are deeply instructed as to the working of conscience. Compare with Ps...
Psalms 32:4 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

This is known as the second of the penitential psalms. It is the song of a man who is rejoicing in the assurance of restoration. Opening with a burst of praise which reveals the experimental knowledg...
Psalms 32:4 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

I do not presume to say that Christ, as the sinner's Surety; is here speaking: but as the word Selah occurs at the close of this complaint, and as the words themselves correspond to some well-known w...
Psalms 32:4 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

Psalms 32 Proper Psalm for Ash Wednesday ( Morning ). Psalms 32-34 = Day 6 ( Evening ).
Psalms 32:4 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me ,.... Meaning the afflicting hand of God, which is not joyous, but grievous, and heavy to be borne; especially without his gracious presence, and the dis...
Psalms 32:4 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: my moisture is turned into the drought of summer. Selah. Ver. 4. For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me ] See what God can do when once he taket...
Psalms 32:4 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

When I kept silence Namely, from a full and open confession of my sins, and from pouring out my soul to God in serious and fervent prayers for pardon and peace. My bones waxed old My spirits fail...
Psalms 32:4 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Who Are Blessed. A psalm of David, Maschil. 1 Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is co...
Psalms 32:4 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Thy hand; thy afflicting hand bringing my sins to remembrance, and filling me with thy terrors for them. My very radical moisture was in a manner dried up, and wasted through excessive fears and so...
Psalms 32:4 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

2). He Describes the Period When He Had Been Unable to Find Rest in His Heart Because God's Hand Was On Him Giving Him No Peace (3-4). Psalms 32:3-4 ‘When I kept silence, my bones wasted away,...
Psalms 32:4 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

INTRODUCTION “This is the second of the seven penitential psalms, as they are called, which, says Selnecker, ‘St. Augustine used often to read with weeping heart and eyes, and which before his death...
Psalms 32:4 - Sermon Bible Commentary

Psalms 32 In this Psalm David gives to the world his experience as a sinner. I. He tells us of the blessedness of forgiveness. He is blessed (1) because his sins are taken away; (2) because his s...
Psalms 32:4 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Psalms 32:1 . Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered. The Lord can bless the man who is full of sin only when his sin is covered by the atonement the propitiation wh...
Psalms 32:4 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

This Psalm, as well as Psalms 51 ., is generally understood to have been composed after the prophet Nathan had alarmed the conscience of David for the sin against Uriah. It is a psalm of praise for...
Psalms 32:4 - The Biblical Illustrator

Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered. The penitential psalms Since the time of Origen, seven of the psalms have borne the name of Penitential; namely, Psalms 6:1...
Psalms 32:4 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION THIS psalm has been selected by the Church for one of the "seven penitential psalms." It forms a part of the service of the synagogue on the great Day of Atonement. Yet it is almost...
Psalms 32:4 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Of the Justification of a Poor Sinner. A psalm of David, Maschil, a contemplation, written probably after David had been restored to the grace of God, a little more than a year after his great sin...
Psalms 32:4 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Samuel 5:11 ; 1 Samuel 5:6 ; 1 Samuel 5:7 ; 1 Samuel 5:9 ; 1 Samuel 6:9 ; Job 16:21 ; Job 30:30 ; Job 33:7 ; Lamentations 4:8 ; Lamentations 5:10 ; Psalms 102:3 ; Psalms 102:4 ; Psalms...
Psalms 32:4 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Hand — Thy afflicting hand. My moisture — Was dried up.

Psalms 32:4 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Psalms 32:4 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Psalms 32:4 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Psalms 32:4 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Psalms 32:4 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

Psalms 32:4 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Psalms 32:4 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Psalms 32:4 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Psalms 32:4 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Psalms 32:4 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Psalms 32:4 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Psalms 32:4 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Psalms 32:4 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Psalms 32:4 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Psalms 32:4 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

Psalms 32:4 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Psalms 32:4 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Psalms 32:4 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Psalms 32:4 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Psalms 32:4 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Psalms 32:4 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Psalms 32:4 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Psalms 32:4 - Sermon Bible Commentary

Psalms 32:4 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Psalms 32:4 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Psalms 32:4 - The Biblical Illustrator

Psalms 32:4 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Psalms 32:4 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Psalms 32:4 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 32:4 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes