Psalms 31:10

For my life is wasted with sorrow, And my years with sighing; My strength faileth by reason of my affliction, And my bones are consumed on account of all my enemies.

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In The King James Version

For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing: my strength faileth because of mine iniquity, and my bones are consumed.

In Context

9Have mercy upon me, O LORD! for I am in trouble! My face is consumed with grief; Yea, my spirit and my body.

11I have become the scorn of my neighbors, And the terror of my acquaintance; They who see me abroad flee from me.

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Cross References

Psalms 6:8Depart from me, all ye that do iniquity; For the LORD heareth the voice of my weeping.

Psalms 27:7Hear my voice, O LORD! when I cry unto thee; Have pity upon me, and answer me!

Psalms 38:3There is no soundness in my flesh, because of thine anger; Nor rest in my bones, because of my sin.

Psalms 71:9Cast me not off in mine old age; Forsake me not, When my strength faileth!

Psalms 88:15I have been afflicted and languishing from my youth; I suffer thy terrors, and am distracted.

Romans 9:2I have great grief and unceasing anguish in my heart.

Matthew Henry on Psalms 31:10-19

Sorrowful Complaints; Humble and Believing Prayer. 9 Have mercy upon me, O Lord , for I am in trouble: mine eye is consumed with grief, yea, my soul and my belly. 10 For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing: my strength faileth because of mine iniquity, and my bones are consumed. 11 I was a reproach among all mine enemies, but especially among my neighbours, and a fear to mine acquaintance: they that did see me without fled from me. 12 I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am like a broken… Read the whole commentary →

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