A
Study of Psalm Thirty Two
Verse
Four
4 For
thine hand is heavy upon me day and night: and my moisture is
turned into the drought of Summer. Selah.
Brethren:
In yesterday's preceding verse we read how one is convicted of sin by the purity of God's word. And how it reveals our guilt unto ourselves. The above verse continues in that line of thought. I would venture to say that the Psalmist (David), had shed so much tears of emotions ranging from sorrow to anger, at himself, that he no longer had any left. His sadness, had reached rock bottom.
In yesterday's preceding verse we read how one is convicted of sin by the purity of God's word. And how it reveals our guilt unto ourselves. The above verse continues in that line of thought. I would venture to say that the Psalmist (David), had shed so much tears of emotions ranging from sorrow to anger, at himself, that he no longer had any left. His sadness, had reached rock bottom.
“Meaning
the afflicting hand of God, which is not joyous, but grievous, and
heavy to be borne; especially without his gracious presence, and the
discoveries of his love: this continued night and day, without any
intermission; and may design some violent distemper; perhaps a fever;
since it follows, [that] the radical moisture in him was almost dried
up, as brooks in the summer season; his body was parched, as it were,
with the burning heat of the disease; or with an apprehension of the
wrath of God under it, or both: and so he continued until be was
brought to a true sense of sin, and an acknowledgment of it, when he
had the discoveries of pardoning love. The Septuagint and Vulgate
Latin versions read, 'I am turned into distress, through a thorn
being fixed'” - John Gill - Theologian
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