Psalm 31:9 {30:10}
Good News Translation
Be merciful to me, LORD, for I am in trouble; my eyes are tired from so much crying; I am completely worn out.

New Revised Standard Version
Be gracious to me, O LORD, for I am in distress; my eye wastes away from grief, my soul and body also.

Contemporary English Version
Have pity, LORD! I am hurting and almost blind. My whole body aches.

New American Bible
Be gracious to me, LORD, for I am in distress; affliction is wearing down my eyes, my throat and my insides.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Have mercy on me, O Lord, for I am afflicted: my eye is troubled with wrath, my soul, and my belly:

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Have mercy on me, O Lord, for I am afflicted: my eye is troubled with wrath, my soul, and my belly:

mine

Psalm 6:7 My eye is troubled through indignation: I have grown old amongst all my enemies.

Psalm 88:9 My eyes languished through poverty. All the day I cried to thee, O Lord: I stretched out my hands to thee.

Job 17:7 My eye is dim through indignation, and my limbs are brought as it were to nothing.

Lamentations 4:17 Ain. While we were yet standing, our eyes failed, expecting help for us in vain, when we looked attentively towards a nation that was not able to save.

Lamentations 5:17 Therefore is our heart sorrowful, therefore are our eyes become dim.

my soul

Psalm 6:1,2 Unto the end, in verses, a psalm for David, for the octave. [2] O Lord, rebuke me not in thy indignation, nor chastise me in thy wrath. . . .

Psalm 22:14,15 I am poured out like water; and all my bones are scattered. My heart is become like wax melting in the midst of my bowels. . . .

Psalm 38:1-10 A psalm for David, for a remembrance of the sabbath. [2] Rebuke me not, O Lord, in thy indignation; nor chastise me in thy wrath. . . .

Psalm 44:25 For our soul is humbled down to the dust: our belly cleaveth to the earth.

Psalm 73:14,26 And I have been scourged all the day; and my chastisement hath been in the mornings. . . .

Psalm 88:3-5 For my soul is filled with evils: and my life hath drawn nigh to hell. . . .

Psalm 102:3-5 For my days are vanished like smoke, and my bones are grown dry like fuel for the fire. . . .

Psalm 107:10 Such as sat in darkness and in the shadow of death: bound in want and in iron.

Job 33:19-22 He rebuketh also by sorrow in the bed, and he maketh all his bones to wither. . . .

Context
Into Your Hands I Commit My Spirit
8And thou hast not shut me up in the hands of the enemy: thou hast set my feet in a spacious place. 9Have mercy on me, O Lord, for I am afflicted: my eye is troubled with wrath, my soul, and my belly:10For my life is wasted with grief: and my years in sighs. My strength is weakened through poverty and my bones are disturbed.…
Cross References
Psalm 6:7
My eye is troubled through indignation: I have grown old amongst all my enemies.

Psalm 63:1
A psalm of David while he was in the desert of Edom. [2] O God, my God, to thee do I watch at break of day. For thee my soul hath thirsted; for thee my flesh, O how many ways!

Psalm 66:14
Which my lips have uttered, And my mouth hath spoken, when I was in trouble.

Psalm 69:17
And turn not away thy face from thy servant: for I am in trouble, hear me speedily.

Psalm 88:9
My eyes languished through poverty. All the day I cried to thee, O Lord: I stretched out my hands to thee.

Lamentations 3:4
Beth. My skin and my flesh he hath made old, he hath broken my bones.

Psalm 31:8
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