Psalm 32:4

4 Porque día y noche tu mano pesaba sobre mí; mi vitalidad se desvanecía con el calor del verano. (Selah)

Psalm 32:4 Meaning and Commentary

Psalms 32:4

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 discoveries of his love: this continued night and day, without any intermission; and may design some violent distemper; perhaps a fever; since it follows,

my moisture is turned into the drought of summer.
That is, the radical moisture in him was almost dried up, as brooks in the summer season; his body was parched, as it were, with the burning heat of the disease; or with an apprehension of the wrath of God under it, or both: and so he continued until be was brought to a true sense of sin, and an acknowledgment of it, when he had the discoveries of pardoning love, as is expressed in ( Psalms 32:5 ) . The Septuagint and Vulgate Latin versions read, "I am turned into distress, through a thorn being fixed"; and so Apollinarius paraphrases the words,

``I am become miserable, because thorns are fixed in my skin;''

reading (Uwq) for (Uyq) ; and which Suidas ^F15 interprets "sin", that being like the thorn, unfruitful and pricking; see ( 2 Corinthians 12:7 ) .

Selah; on this word, (See Gill on Psalms 3:2).

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FOOTNOTES:

F15 In voce (akanya) .

Psalm 32:4 In-Context

2 ¡Cuán bienaventurado es el hombre a quien el SEÑOR no culpa de iniquidad, y en cuyo espíritu no hay engaño!

3 Mientras callé mi pecado, mi cuerpo se consumió con mi gemir durante todo el día.

4 Porque día y noche tu mano pesaba sobre mí; mi vitalidad se desvanecía con el calor del verano. (Selah)

5 Te manifesté mi pecado, y no encubrí mi iniquidad. Dije: Confesaré mis transgresiones al SEÑOR; y tú perdonaste la culpa de mi pecado. (Selah)

6 Por eso, que todo santo ore a ti en el tiempo en que puedas ser hallado; ciertamente, en la inundación de muchas aguas, no llegarán éstas a él.