Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

For day and night Your hand was heavy upon me;
My vitality was drained away as with the fever heat of summer. Selah.

King James Version

For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: my moisture is turned into the drought of summer. Selah.

Holman Bible

For day and night Your hand was heavy on me;
my strength was drained
as in the summer’s heat.Selah

International Standard Version

For your hand was heavy upon me day and night; my strength was exhausted as in a summer drought. Interlude

A Conservative Version

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

American Standard Version

For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: My moisture was changed as with the drought of summer. Selah

Amplified


For day and night Your hand [of displeasure] was heavy upon me;
My energy (vitality, strength) was drained away as with the burning heat of summer. Selah.

Bible in Basic English

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

Darby Translation

For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me; my moisture was turned into the drought of summer. Selah.

Julia Smith Translation

For day and night thy hand will be heavy upon me: my moisture was turned into the dryness of summer. Silence.

King James 2000

For day and night your hand was heavy upon me: my strength is turned into the drought of summer. Selah.

Lexham Expanded Bible

For day and night your hand was heavy upon me. My vigor was changed into [the] dry heat of summer. Selah

Modern King James verseion

For by day and by night Your hand was heavy on me; my sap is turned into the droughts of summer. Selah.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

For thy hand is heavy upon me both day and night, and my moisture is like the drought in Summer. Selah.

NET Bible

For day and night you tormented me; you tried to destroy me in the intense heat of summer. (Selah)

New Heart English Bible

For day and night your hand was heavy on me. My strength was sapped in the heat of summer. Selah.

The Emphasized Bible

For, day and night, heavy upon me, was thy hand, - Changed was my life-sap into the drought of summer. Selah.

Webster

For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: my moisture is turned into the drouth of summer. Selah.

World English Bible

For day and night your hand was heavy on me. My strength was sapped in the heat of summer. Selah.

Youngs Literal Translation

When by day and by night Thy hand is heavy upon me, My moisture hath been changed Into the droughts of summer. Selah.

References

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Easton

Context Readings

The Joy Of Forgiveness

3 When I kept silent about my sins, my body wasted away and I groaned all day long. 4 For day and night Your hand was heavy upon me;
My vitality was drained away as with the fever heat of summer. Selah.
5 I confessed my sins to you, and I did not cover up my guilt. I decided to confess them to you, O Jehovah. Then you forgave all my sins.

Cross References

Job 33:7

No fear of me should alarm you, nor should my hand be heavy upon you.

1 Samuel 5:11

The people of Ekron called for another meeting of the Philistine rulers and told them: Send this chest back where it belongs. Then it will not kill us. Everyone was in a panic, because God was causing a lot of people to die.

Psalm 22:15

My power is dried up like pieces of broken pottery. My tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth. You lay me down in the dust of death.

1 Samuel 5:6-7

Jehovah dealt harshly with the people of Ashdod. He destroyed them by striking the people in the vicinity of Ashdod with tumors.

1 Samuel 5:9

After they had moved it, Jehovah threw the city into a great panic. He struck all the people in the city and they were covered with tumors.

1 Samuel 6:9

Then watch where it goes. If it goes up the road to its own country toward Beth Shemesh, then this disaster is Jehovah's doing. But if not, we will know it was not his hand that struck us, but what happened to us was an accident.

Job 16:21

O that a man might plead with God As a man with his neighbor!

Job 30:30

My skin grows black on me and my bones burn with fever.

Psalm 38:2-8

Your arrows have struck me. Your hand has struck me hard.

Psalm 39:10-11

Remove the plague you laid upon me. My life is over because you apposed me with your hand.

Psalm 90:6-7

In the morning they blossom and sprout. In the evening they fade and wither away.

Psalm 102:3-4

My days have been consumed in smoke, and my bones have been scorched like a hearth.

Lamentations 4:8

Their face is blacker than night. In the streets no one has knowledge of them. Their skin is hanging on their bones, and they are dry, they have become like wood.

Lamentations 5:10

Our skin is heated like an oven because of our burning heat from the need of food.

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