Psalm 32:4

4 Porque de día y de noche se agravó sobre mí tu mano; Volvióse mi verdor en sequedades de estío. (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 Bienaventurado el hombre á quien no imputa Jehová la iniquidad, Y en cuyo espíritu no hay superchería.

3 Mientras callé, envejeciéronse mis huesos En mi gemir todo el día.

4 Porque de día y de noche se agravó sobre mí tu mano; Volvióse mi verdor en sequedades de estío. (Selah.)

5 Mi pecado te declaré, y no encubrí mi iniquidad. Confesaré, dije, contra mí mis rebeliones á Jehová; Y tú perdonaste la maldad de mi pecado. (Selah.)

6 Por esto orará á ti todo santo en el tiempo de poder hallarte: Ciertamente en la inundación de muchas aguas no llegarán éstas á él.