For day and night Your hand was heavy upon me; My vitality failed as with the dry heat of summer. Selah
Parallel translations
- WEB For day and night your hand was heavy on me. My strength was sapped in the heat of summer. Selah.
- KJV For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: my moisture is turned into the drought of summer. Selah.
- BSB For day and night Your hand was heavy upon me; my strength was drained as in the summer heat. Selah
- NKJV For day and night Your hand was heavy upon me; My vitality was turned into the drought of summer. Selah
- NLT Day and night your hand of discipline was heavy on me. My strength evaporated like water in the summer heat. Interlude
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Quick answer
Day and night God's hand was heavy on David, draining his strength like summer heat. It portrays God's convicting discipline on the unrepentant.
Overview
God's heavy hand represents the conviction and chastening that pressed on David while he refused to confess. This pressure was God's grace, designed to drive him to repentance. The 'Selah' invites pause to consider how God lovingly disturbs our peace to lead us to forgiveness.
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- 1 Sam 5:11They sent therefore and gathered together all the lords of the Philistines, and they said, “Send the ark of the God of Israel away, and let it go again to its own place, that it not kill us and our people.” For there was a deadly confusion throughout all the city. The hand of God was very heavy there.
- Ps 38:2–8For your arrows have pierced me, your hand presses hard on me.
- Ps 39:10–11Remove your scourge away from me. I am overcome by the blow of your hand.
- Job 33:7Behold, my terror shall not make you afraid, neither shall my pressure be heavy on you.
- Ps 22:15My strength is dried up like a potsherd. My tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth. You have brought me into the dust of death.
- Ps 102:3–4For my days consume away like smoke. My bones are burned as a torch.
- Ps 90:6–7In the morning it sprouts and springs up. By evening, it is withered and dry.
- Job 16:21that he would maintain the right of a man with God, of a son of man with his neighbor!
- 1 Sam 5:6–7But Yahweh’s hand was heavy on the people of Ashdod, and he destroyed them, and struck them with tumors, even Ashdod and its borders.
- Lam 4:8Their appearance is blacker than a coal; they are not known in the streets: Their skin clings to their bones; it is withered, it has become like a stick.
- Lam 5:10Our skin is black like an oven, Because of the burning heat of famine.
- Job 30:30My skin grows black and peels from me. My bones are burned with heat.
- 1 Sam 6:9Behold; if it goes up by the way of its own border to Beth Shemesh, then he has done us this great evil; but if not, then we shall know that it is not his hand that struck us. It was a chance that happened to us.”
- 1 Sam 5:9It was so, that after they had carried it there, Yahweh’s hand was against the city with a very great confusion; and he struck the men of the city, both small and great so that tumors broke out on them.
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