Psalm 32:4

New Living Translation

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

Cross References

Job 16:21

I need someone to mediate between God and me, as a person mediates between friends.

Job 30:30

My skin has turned dark, and my bones burn with fever.

Job 33:7

So you don’t need to be afraid of me. I won’t come down hard on you.

Psalm 22:15

My strength has dried up like sunbaked clay. My tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth. You have laid me in the dust and left me for dead.

Lamentations 4:8

But now their faces are blacker than soot. No one recognizes them in the streets. Their skin sticks to their bones; it is as dry and hard as wood.

Lamentations 5:10

The famine has blackened our skin as though baked in an oven.

Ruth 1:13

Would you wait for them to grow up and refuse to marry someone else? No, of course not, my daughters! Things are far more bitter for me than for you, because the Lord himself has raised his fist against me.”

1 Samuel 5:11

The people summoned the Philistine rulers again and begged them, “Please send the Ark of the God of Israel back to its own country, or it will kill us all.” For the deadly plague from God had already begun, and great fear was sweeping across the town.

1 Samuel 5:9

But when the Ark arrived at Gath, the Lord’s heavy hand fell on its men, young and old; he struck them with a plague of tumors, and there was a great panic.

1 Samuel 6:9

If they cross the border of our land and go to Beth-shemesh, we will know it was the Lord who brought this great disaster upon us. If they don’t, we will know it was not his hand that caused the plague. It came simply by chance.”