Psalms 31:10

For my life is consumed with grief, and my years with sighing. My strength is broken with misery, my bones waste away.

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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

9Be gracious to me, Lord, for I am distressed; my eye is wasted away with sorrow.

11The scorn of all my foes, the butt of my neighbors am I, a terror to my acquaintance. At the sight of me in the street people turn quickly away.

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Cross References

Psalms 6:8Begone, workers of wrong, for the Lord has heard my loud weeping,

Psalms 27:7Hear, O Lord, my loud cry, and graciously answer me.

Psalms 38:3In my flesh is no soundness because of your anger, no health in my bones, because of my sin.

Psalms 71:9Cast me not off in the time of old age; when my strength is spent, forsake me not.

Psalms 88:15From my youth I am wretched and dying, I am numbed by the terrors I bear.

Romans 9:2bears me out when I say that there is a great weight of sorrow on me and that my heart is never free from pain.

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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