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For day and night your hand was heavy on me. My strength was sapped in the heat of summer. Selah.
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The Weight of Hidden Sin
Commentators agree that this verse vividly portrays the internal agony of a believer living with unconfessed sin. God's 'heavy hand' represents His constant, pressing conviction of guilt. This spiritual distress leads to a state of complete spiritual dryness, where joy, prayer, and vitality wither away like a plant in a summer drought. This is the direct result of refusing to acknowledge sin before God.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
For day and night - I found no relief even at night. The burden was constant and unbearable.
Thy hand was heavy upon …
19th Century
Anglican
Your hand was heavy. —The verb, as in kept silence in Psalm 32:3, is properly present—the agony is still vividly…
Baptist
Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered. Blessed is the man to whom the Lord does not impute iniquity, and in whose…
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16th Century
Protestant
For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me. In this verse he explains more fully from where such heavy grief arose; namely, because he f…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
For day and night your hand was heavy upon me Meaning the afflicting hand of God, which is not joyous, but grievous,…
It is very difficult to bring sinful man humbly to accept free mercy, with a full confession of his sins and self-condemnation. But the true and on…
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13th Century
Catholic
1. Here begins the fourth set of ten psalms from the first fifty.
Just as the first ten contained psalms about the persecution by Absa…
