Psalm 32:4

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Psalms 32:4

hand. Figure of speech Anthropopatheia. App-6 . is = was. into. Some codices, with Aramaean, read "like". Selah. Connecting the trouble of conviction with the confession to which it led. See App-66 . read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Psalms 32:4

Psalms 32:4. My moisture is turned into the drought of summer— Some have inferred, says Dr. Delaney, from Psalms 32:3, &c. that David continued some time impenitent after the affair with Bathsheba: but had he been long impenitent, it would have been impossible for him to say, mine iniquity have I not hid; however, he most beautifully and feelingly describes the distressed condition that he was in before his pardon was pronounced; his mind upon the rack; his body distempered and wasted with... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Psalms 32:4

4. thy hand—of God, or power in distressing him (Psalms 38:2). moisture—vital juices of the body, the parching heat of which expresses the anguish of the soul. On the other figures, compare Psalms 6:2; Psalms 6:7; Psalms 31:9-11. If composed on the occasion of the Psalms 6:7- :, this distress may have been protracted for several months. read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Psalms 32:1-11

Psalms 32In this psalm of wisdom and thanksgiving, David urged those who sin against the Lord to seek His pardon, with the encouragement that He is gracious with the penitent. He will, however, chasten the unrepentant.Different scholars have identified different psalms as wisdom psalms. Bullock regarded 32, 34, 37, 47, 73, 112, 127-28, and 133 as wisdom psalms. Some literary distinctives of wisdom psalms are proverbs, admonitions (often taken from nature), similes, "blessed," "son" or... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Psalms 32:3-4

David’s failure to confess his sin immediately resulted in internal grief and external weakness for him. God oppressed him severely with discipline (cf. Hebrews 12:6). Consequently David felt drained of energy. Evidently this is a description of how he felt in every aspect of his being-physically, emotionally, and spiritually. read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Psalms 32:3-5

2. The chastening of the unrepentant 32:3-5 read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 32:1-11

The subject of the Ps. is the happiness that follows the confession of sin and the experience of forgiveness. This is generally set forth at the beginning (Psalms 32:1-2). Then the Psalmist relates his own spiritual history of misery before confession (Psalms 32:3-4), and of relief after it (Psalms 32:5). He next commends the practice of prayer (Psalms 32:6), and expresses his own confidence in God (Psalms 32:7). In Psalms 32:8 God speaks in words of promise, and the closing vv. are devoted to... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Psalms 32:4

(4) Thy hand was heavy.—The verb, as in “kept silence” in Psalms 32:3, is properly present—the agony is still vividly present.My moisture.—The Hebrew word is found only once besides (Numbers 11:8), where the Authorised Version has “fresh oil;” the LXX. and Vulg., “an oily cake.” Aquila has “of the breast of oil,” reading the word erroneously. Here both LXX. and Vulg. seem to have had a different reading, “I was turned to sorrow while the thorn was fixed in.” Symmachus translates somewhat... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - Psalms 32:1-11

Psalms 32:3-4 We all of us know that repentance of our sins is necessary for us, if we hope to be saved in the next world. True repentance is the path, the only path, of forgiveness, of restoration to God's favour, of becoming good and holy. But I. What is Repentance? It is the breaking off with our sins. It is not merely being sorry for them; not merely looking them in the face, and admitting the truth, when conscience convinces us that we have done wrong. All this is very necessary;... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Psalms 32:1-11

Psalms 32:1-11ONE must have a dull ear not to hear the voice of personal experience in this psalm. It throbs with emotion, and is a burst of rapture from a heart tasting the sweetness of the new joy of forgiveness. It is hard to believe that the speaker is but a personification of the nation, and the difficulty is recognised by Cheese’s concession that we have here "principally, though not exclusively, a national psalm." The old opinion that it records David’s experience in the dark time when,... read more

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