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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