Psalms 32 WBT
Summary: The second of the penitential psalms and a wisdom psalm on forgiveness, Psalm 32 opens with a beatitude, "Blessed is the one whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered" (v. 1), then describes the physical toll of unconfessed guilt, "my bones wasted away through my groaning all day long" (v. 3), before relief comes through honest confession. It closes with instruction not to be "like a horse or a mule, without understanding," that must be controlled by bit and bridle (v. 9), urging instead a willing, understanding response to God. Many readers connect it to David's experience after his sin with Bathsheba, alongside Psalm 51.
1[A Psalm] of David, Maschil. Blessed [is he whose] transgression [is] forgiven, [whose] sin [is] covered.
2Blessed [is] the man to whom the LORD imputeth not iniquity, and in whose spirit [there is] no guile.
3When I kept silence, my bones became old through my roaring all the day long.
4For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: my moisture is turned into the drouth of summer. Selah.
5I acknowledged my sin to thee, and my iniquity have I not hid. I said, I will confess my transgressions to the LORD; and thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin. Selah.
6For this shall every one that is godly pray to thee in a time when thou mayest be found: surely in the floods of great waters they shall not come nigh to him.
7Thou [art] my hiding place; thou wilt preserve me from trouble; thou wilt compass me about with songs of deliverance. Selah.
8I will instruct thee, and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go: I will guide thee with my eye.
9Be ye 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 to thee.
10Many sorrows [shall be] to the wicked: but he that trusteth in the LORD, mercy shall encompass him.
11Be glad in the LORD, and rejoice, ye righteous: and shout for joy, all [ye that are] upright in heart.
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