Parallel Verses

World English Bible

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

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.

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

American

Easton

Context Readings

The Joy Of Forgiveness

3 When I kept silence, my bones wasted away through my groaning all day long. 4 For day and night your hand was heavy on me. My strength was sapped in the heat of summer. Selah. 5 I acknowledged my sin to you. I didn't hide my iniquity. I said, I will confess my transgressions to Yahweh, and you forgave the iniquity of my sin. Selah.


Cross References

Job 33:7

Behold, my terror shall not make you afraid, neither shall my pressure be heavy on you.

1 Samuel 5:11

They sent therefore and gathered together all the lords of the Philistines, and they said, "Send away the ark of the God of Israel, 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.

Psalm 22:15

My 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.

1 Samuel 5:6-7

But the hand of Yahweh was heavy on them of Ashdod, and he destroyed them, and struck them with tumors, even Ashdod and its borders.

1 Samuel 5:9

It was so, that after they had carried it about, the hand of Yahweh was against the city with a very great confusion: and he struck the men of the city, both small and great; and tumors broke out on them.

1 Samuel 6:9

Behold; 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."

Job 16:21

that he would maintain the right of a man with God, of a son of man with his neighbor!

Job 30:30

My skin grows black and peels from me. My bones are burned with heat.

Psalm 38:2-8

For your arrows have pierced me, your hand presses hard on me.

Psalm 39:10-11

Remove your scourge away from me. I am overcome by the blow of your hand.

Psalm 90:6-7

In the morning it sprouts and springs up. By evening, it is withered and dry.

Psalm 102:3-4

For my days consume away like smoke. My bones are burned as a torch.

Lamentations 4:8

Their appearance is blacker than a coal; they are not known in the streets: Their skin clings to their bones; it is withered, it is become like a stick.

Lamentations 5:10

Our skin is black like an oven, Because of the burning heat of famine.

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