Psalms 32:3

3 When I kept silent about my sin, my body became weak because I groaned all day long.

Psalms 32:3 Meaning and Commentary

Psalms 32:3

When I kept silence
Was unthoughtful of sin, unconcerned about it, and made no acknowledgment and confession of it to God, being quite senseless and stupid; the Targum adds, "from the words of the law"; which seems to point at sin as the cause of what follows;

my bones waxed old; through my roaring all the day long;
not under a sense of sin, but under some severe affliction, and through impatience in it; not considering that sin lay at the bottom, and was the occasion of it; and such was the violence of the disorder, and his uneasiness under it, that his strength was dried up by it, and his bones stuck out as they do in aged persons, whose flesh is wasted away from them; see ( Psalms 102:3 Psalms 102:5 ) .

Psalms 32:3 In-Context

1 Blessed is the one whose lawless acts are forgiven. His sins have been taken away.

2 Blessed is the man whose sin the LORD never counts against him. He doesn't want to cheat anyone.

3 When I kept silent about my sin, my body became weak because I groaned all day long.

4 Day and night your heavy hand punished me. I became weaker and weaker as I do in the heat of summer. "Selah"

5 Then I admitted my sin to you. I didn't cover up the wrong I had done. I said, "I will admit my lawless acts to the Lord." And you forgave the guilt of my sin. "Selah"