Self-interpreting Bible
Psalms 32
1The blessedness of him whose sins are forgiven. 3Confession of sins giveth ease to the conscience. 8David exhorteth others to a well-regulated conduct by the blessings which attend it.
0 A Psalm of David, 1Maschil.
1 BLESSED is he whose atransgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered.
2 Blessed is the man unto whom the LORD bimputeth not iniquity, and cin whose spirit there is no guile.
3 When dI kept silence, emy bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long.
- d: Pr. 28:13 , Ps. 77:1 - 10 , Ps. 31:9 , Ps. 31:10
- e: Ps. 102:3
4 For fday and night thy hand was heavy upon me: my moisture is turned into the drought of summer. Selah.
- f: Ps. 31:9 , Ps. 31:10 , Ps. 38:2 - 8 , Ps. 22:15
5 I gacknowledged my sin unto thee, and mine iniquity have I not hid. hI said, I will confess my transgressions unto the LORD; and thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin. Selah.
6 For ithis shall every one that is godly pray unto thee 2in a time when thou mayest be found: surely in the jfloods of great waters they shall not come nigh unto him.
7 Thou art kmy hiding place; thou shalt preserve me from trouble; lthou shalt *compass me about with songs of deliverance. Selah.
- k: Ps. 143:9 , Ps. 9:9 , Ps. 27:5 , Ps. 31:20 , Ps. 119:114 , Ps. 91:1 - 10
- l: Ps. 40:1 - 3 , Psalms 18 , Psalms 103 , Psalms 116 , Psalms 118 , Exodus 15 , Isaiah 12 , Isaiah 25 , Isaiah 26 , Isaiah 38 , Judges 5 , Re. 15:2 , Re. 15:3
- *: compass-surround.
8 I mwill instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go: 3I will guide thee with mine eye.
9 Be nye not as the horse, or as the mule, which have no understanding: whose mouth must be held in with bit and bridle, lest they come near unto thee.
- n: Pr. 26:3 , Ja. 3:3 , Pr. 2:1 - 10 , Pr. 4:1 , Pr. 4:5 , Pr. 4:7 , De. 32:29 , 1Co. 14:20
10 Many osorrows shall be to the wicked: but phe that trusteth in the LORD, mercy shall *compass him about.