Psalms 31:9 · KJV
“Have mercy upon me, O LORD, for I am in trouble: mine eye is consumed with grief, {yea}, my soul and my belly.”
— Psalms 31:9
And hast not shut me up into the hand of the enemy: thou hast set my feet in a large room.
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 — Context
I will be glad and rejoice in thy mercy: for thou hast considered my trouble; thou hast known my soul in adversities;
8And 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.
Cross References
Psalms 6:7
Mine eye is consumed because of grief; it waxeth old because of all mine enemies.
Psalms 88:9
Mine eye mourneth by reason of affliction: LORD, I have called daily upon thee, I have stretched out my hands unto thee.
Psalms 73:26
My flesh and my heart faileth: {but} God {is} the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever. {strength: Heb. rock}
Lamentations 5:17
For this our heart is faint; for these {things} our eyes are dim.
Psalms 22:14-15
I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels. {out of...: or, sundered}
Job 33:19-22
He is chastened also with pain upon his bed, and the multitude of his bones with strong {pain}:
Psalms 73:14
For all the day long have I been plagued, and chastened every morning. {chastened: Heb. my chastisement was}
Psalms 107:10
Such as sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, {being} bound in affliction and iron;