Psalms 32:4

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 sorrows.

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Wesley's Explanatory Notes

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

⁴ For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: my moisture is turned into the drought of summer. Selah.

Related Commentaries of Psalms 32:4

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

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Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

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James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

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John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Psalms 32:4