Psalms 31:10 · KJV
“For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing: my strength faileth because of mine iniquity, and my bones are consumed.”
— Psalms 31:10
Have mercy upon me, O LORD, for I am in trouble: mine eye is consumed with grief, {yea}, my soul and my belly.
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.
Psalms 31 — Context
And hast not shut me up into the hand of the enemy: thou hast set my feet in a large room.
9Have mercy upon me, O LORD, for I am in trouble: mine eye is consumed with grief, {yea}, my soul and my belly.
10For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing: my strength faileth because of mine iniquity, and my bones are consumed.
11I 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.
12I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am like a broken vessel. {a broken...: Heb. a vessel that perisheth}
Cross References
Psalms 88:15
I {am} afflicted and ready to die from {my} youth up: {while} I suffer thy terrors I am distracted.
Psalms 38:3
{There is} no soundness in my flesh because of thine anger; neither {is there any} rest in my bones because of my sin. {rest: Heb. peace, or, health}
Psalms 32:3-4
When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long.
Romans 9:2
That I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart.
Psalms 78:33
Therefore their days did he consume in vanity, and their years in trouble.
Psalms 102:3-28
For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as an hearth. {like...: or, (as some read) into smoke}
Psalms 39:11
When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: surely every man {is} vanity. Selah. {his...: Heb. that which is to be desired in him to melt away}
Job 3:24
For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters. {I eat: Heb. my meat}