Psalms 31:10

For my life is spent with sorrow, my years with sighing. My strength fails because of my iniquity. My bones are wasted away.

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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 on me, LORD, for I am in distress. My eye, my soul, and my body waste away with grief.

11Because of all my adversaries I have become utterly contemptible to my neighbors, a horror to my acquaintances. Those who saw me on the street fled from me.

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Cross References

Psalms 6:8Depart from me, all you workers of iniquity, for the LORD has heard the voice of my weeping.

Psalms 27:7Hear, LORD, when I cry with my voice. Have mercy also on me, and answer me.

Psalms 38:3There is no soundness in my flesh because of your indignation, neither is there any health in my bones because of my sin.

Psalms 71:9Don’t reject me in my old age. Don’t forsake me when my strength fails.

Psalms 88:15I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up. While I suffer your terrors, I am distracted.

Romans 9:2that I have great sorrow and unceasing pain 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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