Psalms 32:4

Psalms 32:4. For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me.

God was with his hand pressing him heavily, forging his sin home upon him, making him say, My sin is ever before me." Oh! the misery of sinning to a child of God. Do not dream that we can ever have any pleasure in sin; the worldling may, but the believer never can. ‘To him it is a deadly viper that will fill his veins with burning poison.

Psalms 32:4. My moisture is turned into the drought of summer. Selah.

When he tried to pray, it was a dried-up prayer; he tried to make a Psalm but it was a dried-up song, he tried to do some good, for he was still a good man, but it was all withered without the Spirit of God. His moisture was gone out of him, turned into the drought of summer, and summer in David’s country was a very droughty thing indeed. Every human thing despaired, the grass seemed to turn to dust, it was so with him. If you go into sin, this is what will happen to you. If you are a true child of God, you will have all the joy of God taken from you, all the moisture of your heart dried up, and you will be like a parched, withered thing. " Selah." It was time to have a pause in the music, he was on so base a key; he had need now to screw up the harp strings and rise to something a little sweeter.