Psalms 32:4

Bible in Basic English (1941)

For the weight of your hand was on me day and night; my body became dry like the earth in summer. (Selah.)

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 33:7 : 7 Fear of me will not overcome you, and my hand will not be hard on you.
  • Ps 22:15 : 15 My throat is dry like a broken vessel; my tongue is fixed to the roof of my mouth, and the dust of death is on my lips.
  • 1 Sam 5:11 : 11 So they sent and got together all the lords of the Philistines, and they said, Send away the ark of the God of Israel, and let it go back to its place, so that it may not be the cause of death to us and to our people: for there was a great fear of death through all the town; the hand of God was very hard on them there.
  • Ps 102:3-4 : 3 My days are wasted like smoke, and my bones are burned up as in a fire. 4 My heart is broken; it has become dry and dead like grass, so that I give no thought to food.
  • Lam 4:8 : 8 Their face is blacker than night; in the streets no one has knowledge of them: their skin is hanging on their bones, they are dry, they have become like wood.
  • Lam 5:10 : 10 Our skin is heated like an oven because of our burning heat from need of food.
  • 1 Sam 5:6-7 : 6 But the hand of the Lord was hard on the people of Ashdod and he sent disease on them through all the country of Ashdod. 7 And when the men of Ashdod saw how it was, they said, Let not the ark of the God of Israel be with us, for his hand is hard on us and on Dagon our god.
  • 1 Sam 5:9 : 9 But after they had taken it away, the hand of the Lord was stretched out against the town for its destruction: and the signs of disease came out on all the men of the town, small and great.
  • 1 Sam 6:9 : 9 If it goes by the land of Israel to Beth-shemesh, then this great evil is his work; but if not, then we may be certain that the evil was not his doing, but was the working of chance.
  • Job 16:21 : 21 So that he may give decision for a man in his cause with God, and between a son of man and his neighbour.
  • Job 30:30 : 30 My skin is black and dropping off me; and my bones are burning with the heat of my disease.
  • Ps 38:2-8 : 2 For your arrows have gone into my flesh, and I am crushed under the weight of your hand. 3 My flesh is wasted because of your wrath; and there is no peace in my bones because of my sin. 4 For my crimes have gone over my head; they are like a great weight which is more than my strength. 5 My wounds are poisoned and evil-smelling, because of my foolish behaviour. 6 I am troubled, I am made low; I go weeping all the day. 7 For my body is full of burning; all my flesh is unhealthy. 8 I am feeble and crushed down; I gave a cry like a lion because of the grief in my heart.
  • Ps 39:10-11 : 10 No longer let your hand be hard on me; I am wasted by the blows of your hand. 11 By the weight of your wrath against man's sin, the glory of his form is wasted away; truly every man is but a breath. (Selah.)
  • Ps 90:6-7 : 6 In the morning it is green; in the evening it is cut down, and becomes dry. 7 We are burned up by the heat of your passion, and troubled by your wrath.

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  • 3 When I kept my mouth shut, my bones were wasted, because of my crying all through the day.

  • 6 My hands are stretched out to you: my soul is turned to you, like a land in need of water. (Selah.)

  • Ps 77:2-4
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    2 In the day of my trouble, my heart was turned to the Lord: my hand was stretched out in the night without resting; my soul would not be comforted.

    3 I will keep God in memory, with sounds of grief; my thoughts are troubled, and my spirit is overcome. (Selah.)

    4 You keep my eyes from sleep; I am so troubled that no words come.

  • 40 This was my condition, wasted by heat in the day and by the bitter cold at night; and sleep went from my eyes.

  • Ps 38:2-4
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    2 For your arrows have gone into my flesh, and I am crushed under the weight of your hand.

    3 My flesh is wasted because of your wrath; and there is no peace in my bones because of my sin.

    4 For my crimes have gone over my head; they are like a great weight which is more than my strength.

  • Ps 22:14-15
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    14 I am flowing away like water, and all my bones are out of place: my heart is like wax, it has become soft in my body.

    15 My throat is dry like a broken vessel; my tongue is fixed to the roof of my mouth, and the dust of death is on my lips.

  • 5 I made my wrongdoing clear to you, and did not keep back my sin. I said, I will put it all before the Lord; and you took away my wrongdoing and my sin. (Selah.)

  • 10 No longer let your hand be hard on me; I am wasted by the blows of your hand.

  • Ps 31:9-10
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    9 Have mercy on me, O Lord, for I am in trouble; my eyes are wasted with grief, I am wasted in soul and body.

    10 My life goes on in sorrow, and my years in weeping; my strength is almost gone because of my sin, and my bones are wasted away.

  • 4 Because of this my spirit is overcome; and my heart is full of fear.

  • Job 30:16-17
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    16 But now my soul is turned to water in me, days of trouble overtake me:

    17 The flesh is gone from my bones, and they give me no rest; there is no end to my pains.

  • 7 The weight of your wrath is crushing me, all your waves have overcome me. (Selah.)

  • 3 My tears have been my food day and night, while they keep saying to me, Where is your God?

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    6 The voice of my sorrow is a weariness to me; all the night I make my bed wet with weeping; it is watered by the drops flowing from my eyes.

  • Ps 102:4-5
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    4 My heart is broken; it has become dry and dead like grass, so that I give no thought to food.

    5 Because of the voice of my sorrow, my flesh is wasted to the bone.

  • 14 For I have been troubled all the day; every morning have I undergone punishment.

  • 24 In place of my food I have grief, and cries of sorrow come from me like water.

  • Lam 1:13-14
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    13 From on high he has sent fire into my bones, and it has overcome them: his net is stretched out for my feet, I am turned back by him; he has made me waste and feeble all the day.

    14 A watch is kept on my sins; they are joined together by his hand, they have come on to my neck; he has made my strength give way: the Lord has given me up into the hands of those against whom I have no power.

  • Ps 42:7-9
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    7 Deep is sounding to deep at the noise of your waterfalls; all your waves have gone rolling over me.

    8 But the Lord will send his mercy in the daytime, and in the night his song will be with me, a prayer to the God of my life.

    9 I will say to God my Rock, Why have you let me go from your memory? why do I go in sorrow because of the attacks of my haters?

  • 6 I am troubled, I am made low; I go weeping all the day.

  • 2 O my God, I make my cry in the day, and you give no answer; and in the night, and have no rest.

  • Lam 3:3-4
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    3 Truly against me his hand has been turned again and again all the day.

    4 My flesh and my skin have been used up by him and my bones broken.

  • 3 I am tired with my crying; my throat is burning: my eyes are wasted with waiting for my God.

  • 11 My days are like a shade which is stretched out; I am dry like the grass.

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  • 16 My face is red with weeping, and my eyes are becoming dark;

  • 10 And I said, It is a weight on my spirit; but I will keep in mind the years of the right hand of the Most High.

  • 21 My heart was made bitter, and I was pained by the bite of grief:

  • 8 It has come up as a witness against me, and the wasting of my flesh makes answer to my face.

  • 21 You have become cruel to me; the strength of your hand is hard on me.

  • 3 When my spirit is overcome, your eyes are on my goings; nets have been secretly placed in the way in which I go.

  • 9 My eyes are wasting away because of my trouble: Lord, my cry has gone up to you every day, my hands are stretched out to you.

  • 12 For unnumbered evils are round about me; my sins have overtaken me, so that I am bent down with their weight; they are more than the hairs of my head, my strength is gone because of them.

  • 31 And my music has been turned to sorrow, and the sound of my pipe into the noise of weeping.

  • 28 My soul is wasted with sorrow; give me strength again in keeping with your word

  • 7 My eyes have become dark because of my pain, and all my body is wasted to a shade.

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    2 Have mercy on me, O Lord, for I am wasted away: make me well, for even my bones are troubled.

  • 26 For you put bitter things on record against me, and send punishment on me for the sins of my early years;