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 ... - rather, 'my (vital) moisture was changed (from vigour to utter prostration, cf. Daniel 7:28; Daniel 10:8; Daniel 10:16), (as if) through the drought, summer' (Psalms 102:4). Or we may omit '(as if),' and take "the drought of summer" to be a poetical phrase for 'the heavy hand of God,' in the form of a tormenting conscience.