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Forכִּיdayיוֹמָםand nightוָלַיְלָהyour handיָדֶךָwas heavyתִּכְבַּדupon me;עָלַיmy vigorלְשַׁדִּיwas turnedנֶהְפַּךְinto the droughtsבְּחַרְבֹנֵיof summer.קַיִץSelah.סֶלָה
Psalms 32:4
Study it in the app“For day and night your hand was heavy upon me; my vigor was turned into the droughts of summer. Selah.”
While he kept silent it weighed on him; when he confessed, God took away his guiltTurning back to GodDavid confesses and God removes the guiltForgiveness
With the Hebrew beneath
Psalms 32:4, word by word
- dayיוֹמָםyomam
by day
By day, in the daytime.
Where else “yomam” appears- and nightלַיְלָהlayla
night
Night.
Where else “layla” appears- your handיָדֶyade
hand
The part of the body with which one takes, gives and works; also what one does.
Where else “yade” appears- was heavyתִּכְבַּדtichbad
be heavy
To weigh much, like a burden.
Where else “tichbad” appears- my vigorלְשַׁדִּleshadi
vigor
The body's strength, which drains away in suffering or dries up.
Where else “leshadi” appears- was turnedנֶהְפַּךְnehpach
change
To change something into something else.
Where else “nehpach” appears- into the droughtsחַרְבֹנֵיcharvone
drought, heat
Dryness, a parching heat: the summer heat that leaves everything without water.
Where else “charvone” appears- of summerקַיִץkayits
summer
The hot, dry season of the year, when fruit ripens.
Where else “kayits” appears- Selahסֶלָהsela
Selah
Selah: a word found at the end of some stanzas of the psalms. It is probably a direction for the music or a pause; its exact sense is unknown, so it is left in Hebrew.
Where else “sela” appears
The context
3When I kept silent, my bones wore away through my roaring all the day.
4 · This verse (above)
5My sin I made known to you, and my iniquity I did not cover; I said, “I will confess my transgressions to YHWH,” and you took away the iniquity of my sin. Selah.