Psalms 102:5 · KJV
“By reason of the voice of my groaning my bones cleave to my skin. {skin: or, flesh}”
— Psalms 102:5
My heart is smitten, and withered like grass; so that I forget to eat my bread.
I am like a pelican of the wilderness: I am like an owl of the desert.
Psalms 102 — Context
For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as an hearth. {like...: or, (as some read) into smoke}
4My heart is smitten, and withered like grass; so that I forget to eat my bread.
5By reason of the voice of my groaning my bones cleave to my skin. {skin: or, flesh}
6I am like a pelican of the wilderness: I am like an owl of the desert.
7I watch, and am as a sparrow alone upon the house top.
Cross References
Job 19:20
My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth. {and to: or, as to}
Proverbs 17:22
A merry heart doeth good {like} a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones. {like: or, to}
Lamentations 4:8
Their visage is blacker than a coal; they are not known in the streets: their skin cleaveth to their bones; it is withered, it is become like a stick. {blacker...: Heb. darker than blackness}
Psalms 6:8
Depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity; for the LORD hath heard the voice of my weeping.
Psalms 32:3-4
When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long.
Psalms 38:8-10
I am feeble and sore broken: I have roared by reason of the disquietness of my heart.
Psalms 6:6
I am weary with my groaning; all the night make I my bed to swim; I water my couch with my tears. {all...: or, every night}