When I held my [a]tongue, my bones consumed, or when I [b]roared all the day,

(For thine hand is heavy upon me day and night: and my moisture is turned into the drought of Summer. Selah.)

Then I [c]acknowledged my sin unto thee, neither hid I mine iniquity: for I thought, I will confess against myself my wickedness unto the Lord, and thou forgavest the punishment of my sin. Selah.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 32:3 Between hope and despair.
  2. Psalm 32:3 Neither by silence nor crying found I ease, signifying that before the sinner be reconciled to God, he feeleth a perpetual torment.
  3. Psalm 32:5 He showeth that as God’s mercy is the only cause of forgiveness of sins, so the means thereof are repentance and confession which proceed of faith.

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