Psalms 32:4

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: My moisture was changed [as] with the drought of summer. {H5542}

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

כִּ֤י ׀ יוֹמָ֣ם וָלַיְלָה֮ תִּכְבַּ֥ד עָלַ֗י יָ֫דֶ֥ךָ נֶהְפַּ֥ךְ לְשַׁדִּ֑י בְּחַרְבֹ֖נֵי קַ֣יִץ סֶֽלָה׃

Transliteration

kî yômām wālaylâ tiḵbad ʿālay yāḏeḵā nehpaḵ ləšaddî bəḥarbōnê qayiṣ selâ.

Grammar Details

• *kî*: conjunction - for/because/when
• *yômām*: adverb - by day/daily
• *wālaylâ*: conjunction *wə-* + masculine singular noun - and night
• *tiḵbad*: qal imperfect 3rd person feminine singular - was heavy
• *ʿālay*: preposition *ʿal* with 1st person singular suffix - upon me
• *yāḏeḵā*: feminine singular noun with 2nd person masculine singular suffix - your hand
• *nehpaḵ*: niphal perfect 3rd person masculine singular - was turned/changed
• *ləšaddî*: preposition *lə-* + masculine singular noun with 1st person singular suffix - into my moisture/vigor
• *bəḥarbōnê*: preposition *bə-* + masculine plural construct noun - in droughts of
• *qayiṣ*: masculine singular noun - summer
• *selâ*: musical notation/pause

Word Meanings

• *tiḵbad*: was heavy/pressed down/weighed upon
• *yāḏeḵā*: your hand (as symbol of power/discipline)
• *nehpaḵ*: was turned/was changed/was transformed
• *ləšaddî*: my moisture/my vigor/my vitality/my freshness
• *ḥarbōnê*: droughts of/dryness of
• *selâ*: musical pause/interlude/lift up

Referenced Verses

• Job 33:7 : 7 Behold, my terror shall not make thee afraid, Neither shall my pressure be heavy upon thee.
• Ps 22:15 : 15 My strength is dried up like a potsherd; And my tongue cleaveth to my jaws; And thou hast brought me into the dust of death.
• 1 Sam 5:11 : 11 They sent therefore and gathered together all the lords of the Philistines, and they said, Send away the ark of the God of Israel, and let it go again to its own place, that is slay us not, and our people. For there was a deadly discomfiture throughout all the city; the hand of God was very heavy there.
• Ps 102:3-4 : 3 For my days consume away like smoke, And my bones are burned as a firebrand. 4 My heart is smitten like grass, and withered; For I forget to eat my bread.
• Lam 4:8 : 8 Their visage is blacker than a coal; They are not known in the streets: Their skin cleaveth to their bones; it is withered, it is become like a stick.
• Lam 5:10 : 10 Our skin is black like an oven, Because of the burning heat of famine.
• 1 Sam 5:6-7 : 6 But the hand of Jehovah was heavy upon them of Ashdod, and he destroyed them, and smote them with tumors, even Ashdod and the borders thereof. 7 And when the men of Ashdod saw that it was so, they said, The ark of the God of Israel shall not abide with us; for his hand is sore upon us, and upon Dagon our god.
• 1 Sam 5:9 : 9 And it was so, that, after they had carried it about, the hand of Jehovah was against the city with a very great discomfiture: and he smote the men of the city, both small and great; and tumors brake out upon them.
• 1 Sam 6:9 : 9 And see; if it goeth up by the way of its own border to Beth-shemesh, then he hath done us this great evil: but if not, then we shall know that it is not his hand that smote us; it was a chance that happened to us.
• Job 16:21 : 21 That he would maintain the right of a man with God, And of a son of man with his neighbor!
• Job 30:30 : 30 My skin is black, [and falleth] from me, And my bones are burned with heat.
• Ps 38:2-8 : 2 For thine arrows stick fast in me, And thy hand presseth me sore. 3 There is no soundness in my flesh because of thine indignation; Neither is there any health in my bones because of my sin. 4 For mine iniquities are gone over my head: As a heavy burden they are too heavy for me. 5 My wounds are loathsome and corrupt, Because of my foolishness. 6 I am pained and bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long. 7 For my loins are filled with burning; And there is no soundness in my flesh. 8 I am faint and sore bruised: I have groaned by reason of the disquietness of my heart.
• Ps 39:10-11 : 10 Remove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of thy hand. 11 When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, Thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: Surely every man is vanity. Selah
• Ps 90:6-7 : 6 In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; In the evening it is cut down, and withereth. 7 For we are consumed in thine anger, And in thy wrath are we troubled.