Psalm 32:4
Modern Translations
New International Version
For day and night your hand was heavy on me; my strength was sapped as in the heat of summer.

New Living Translation
Day and night your hand of discipline was heavy on me. My strength evaporated like water in the summer heat. Interlude

English Standard Version
For day and night your hand was heavy upon me; my strength was dried up as by the heat of summer. Selah

Berean Study Bible
For day and night Your hand was heavy upon me; my strength was drained as in the summer heat. Selah

New American Standard Bible
For day and night Your hand was heavy upon me; My vitality failed as with the dry heat of summer. Selah

NASB 1995
For day and night Your hand was heavy upon me; My vitality was drained away as with the fever heat of summer. Selah.

NASB 1977
For day and night Thy hand was heavy upon me; My vitality was drained away as with the fever heat of summer. Selah.

Amplified Bible
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.

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

Holman Christian Standard Bible
For day and night Your hand was heavy on me; my strength was drained as in the summer's heat. Selah

Contemporary English Version
Night and day your hand weighed heavily on me, and my strength was gone as in the summer heat.

Good News Translation
Day and night you punished me, LORD; my strength was completely drained, as moisture is dried up by the summer heat.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Day and night your hand lay heavily on me. My strength shriveled in the summer 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

NET Bible
For day and night you tormented me; you tried to destroy me in the intense heat of summer. (Selah)
Classic Translations
King James Bible
For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: my moisture is turned into the drought of summer. Selah.

New King James Version
For day and night Your hand was heavy upon me; My vitality was turned into the drought of summer. Selah

King James 2000 Bible
For day and night your hand was heavy upon me: my strength is turned into the drought of summer. Selah.

New Heart English Bible
For day and night your hand was heavy on me to my destruction in the heat 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.

American King James Version
For day and night your hand was heavy on me: my moisture is turned into 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

A Faithful Version
For by day and by night Your hand was heavy upon me; my strength was sapped as in the heat of summer. Selah.

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

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

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

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
(For thine hand is heauie vpon me, day and night: and my moysture is turned into ye drought of summer. Selah)

Bishops' Bible of 1568
For thy hande is heauie vpon me day and night: and my moysture is like the drouth in sommer. Selah.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
And because thy hande was so heuy vpon me both daye and night, my moysture was like the drouth in Sommer. Sela.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
When by day and by night Your hand is heavy on me, "" My moisture has been changed "" Into the droughts of summer. Selah.

Young's 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.

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

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: I am turned in my anguish, whilst the thorn is fastened.

Catholic Public Domain Version
For, day and night, your hand was heavy upon me. I have been converted in my anguish, while still the thorn is piercing.

Translations from Aramaic
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
Because night and day your hand has been heavy against me, and pain returned into my chest to kill me.

Lamsa Bible
For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me; intense pain developed in my heart great enough to kill me.

OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
For day and night Thy hand was heavy upon me; My sap was turned as in the droughts of summer. Selah

Brenton Septuagint Translation
For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: I became thoroughly miserable while a thorn was fastened in me. Pause.
















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