John Gill's Exposition on Psalms 32:4

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me, etc.] 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, my moisture is turned into the drought of summer. That is, 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, as is expressed in (<193205>Psalm 32:5). The Septuagint and Vulgate Latin versions read, “I am turned into distress, through a thorn being fixed”; and so Apollinarius paraphrases the words, “I am become miserable, because thorns are fixed in my skin;” reading Uwq for Uyq; and which Suidas f472 interprets “sin”, that being like the thorn, unfruitful and pricking; (see <471207>2 Corinthians 12:7). Selah; on this word, (see Gill on “<190302>Psalm 3:2”).

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