Go
Articles on

Psalm 31

Psa. 31:10 KJV (With Strong’s)

+
10
Fori my life
chay (Hebrew #2416)
alive; hence, raw (flesh); fresh (plant, water, year), strong; also (as noun, especially in the feminine singular and masculine plural) life (or living thing), whether literally or figuratively
KJV usage: + age, alive, appetite, (wild) beast, company, congregation, life(-time), live(-ly), living (creature, thing), maintenance, + merry, multitude, + (be) old, quick, raw, running, springing, troop.
Pronounce: khah'-ee
Origin: from 2421
is spent
kalah (Hebrew #3615)
to end, whether intransitive (to cease, be finished, perish) or transitived (to complete, prepare, consume)
KJV usage: accomplish, cease, consume (away), determine, destroy (utterly), be (when ... were) done, (be an) end (of), expire, (cause to) fail, faint, finish, fulfil, X fully, X have, leave (off), long, bring to pass, wholly reap, make clean riddance, spend, quite take away, waste.
Pronounce: kaw-law'
Origin: a primitive root
with grief
yagown (Hebrew #3015)
affliction
KJV usage: grief, sorrow.
Pronounce: yaw-gohn'
Origin: from 3013
, and my years
shaneh (Hebrew #8141)
from 8138; a year (as a revolution of time)
KJV usage: + whole age, X long, + old, year(X -ly).
Pronounce: shaw-neh'
Origin: (in plura or (feminine) shanah {shaw-naw'}
with sighing
'anachah (Hebrew #585)
sighing
KJV usage: groaning, mourn, sigh.
Pronounce: an-aw-khaw'
Origin: from 585
: my strength
koach (Hebrew #3581)
from an unused root meaning to be firm; vigor, literally (force, in a good or a bad sense) or figuratively (capacity, means, produce); also (from its hardiness) a large lizard
KJV usage: ability, able, chameleon, force, fruits, might, power(-ful), strength, substance, wealth.
Pronounce: ko'-akh
Origin: or (Dan. 11:6) kowach {ko'-akh}
faileth
kashal (Hebrew #3782)
to totter or waver (through weakness of the legs, especially the ankle); by implication, to falter, stumble, faint or fall
KJV usage: bereave (from the margin), cast down, be decayed, (cause to) fail, (cause, make to) fall (down, -ing), feeble, be (the) ruin(-ed, of), (be) overthrown, (cause to) stumble, X utterly, be weak.
Pronounce: kaw-shal'
Origin: a primitive root
because of mine iniquity
`avon (Hebrew #5771)
from 5753; perversity, i.e. (moral) evil
KJV usage: fault, iniquity, mischeif, punishment (of iniquity), sin.
Pronounce: aw-vone'
Origin: or oavown (2 Kings 7:9; Psalm 51:5 (7)) {aw-vone'}
, and my bones
`etsem (Hebrew #6106)
a bone (as strong); by extension, the body; figuratively, the substance, i.e. (as pron.) selfsame
KJV usage: body, bone, X life, (self-)same, strength, X very.
Pronounce: eh'tsem
Origin: from 6105
are consumed
`ashesh (Hebrew #6244)
probably to shrink, i.e. fail
KJV usage: be consumed.
Pronounce: aw-shaysh'
Origin: a primitive root
.
i
Psa. 102:3• 3For my days are consumed like smoke,{HR}And my bones are burned as a firebrand. (Psa. 102:3)
,etc.

More on:

+
Life,
Year

Cross References

+

Ministry on This Verse

+
my life.
Psa. 78:33• 33He consumed their days in vanity,{HR}And their years in terror. (Psa. 78:33)
;
Psa. 88:15• 15Poor [am] I and expiring from youth;{HR}I have borne thy terror; I am distracted. (Psa. 88:15)
;
Psa. 102:3‑28• 3For my days are consumed like smoke,{HR}And my bones are burned as a firebrand.
 4My heart is smitten as grass and dried up;{HR}For I forget to eat my bread.
 5From the voice of my groaning{HR}My bone cleaveth to my flesh.
 6I am like a pelican of the wilderness,{HR}I am become as an owl of desolate places;
 7I watch and become as a sparrow upon the housetop.
 8All the day mine enemies reproach me,{HR}And they that are mad against me swear by me.
 9For I have eaten ashes like bread,{HR}And mingled my drink with weeping,
 10Because of thine indignation and thy wrath;{HR}For thou hast lifted me up and cast me down.
 11My days [are] as a shadow stretched out,{HR}And for me, I am withered as grass.
 12But thou, Jehovah, forever abidest,{HR}And thy memorial from generation to generation.
 13Thou wilt arise, thou wilt compassionate Zion,{HR}For [it is] time to be gracious to her,{HR}For the set time is come.
 14For thy servants take pleasure in her stones{HR}And are gracious to her dust.
 15And nations shall fear Jehovah's name,{HR}And all kings of the earth thy glory.
 16For Jehovah hath built Zion,{HR}He is seen in his glory,
 17He turned unto the prayer of the destitute one,{HR}And despised not their prayer.
 18This shall be written for an after generation,{HR}And a people to be created shall praise Jah.
 19For he hath looked down from the height of his sanctuary;{HR}From the heavens hath Jehovah beheld the earth;
 20To hear the groaning of the prisoner,{HR}To loose the sons of death,
 21To declare in Zion Jehovah's name{HR}And his praise in Jerusalem,
 22When peoples are gathered together,{HR}And kingdoms, to serve Jehovah.
 23He weakened my strength in the way,{HR}He shortened my days.
 24I said, O my God ,{HR}Take me not away in the midst of my days:{HR}In generation of generations [are] thy years.
 25Of old hast thou founded the earth,{HR}And the heavens [are] the work of thy hands.
 26They shall perish, and thou shalt endure;{HR}And all of them as the garment shall wax old;{HR}As the vesture shalt thou change them,{HR}And they shall be changed.
 27But thou [art] the same (He),{HR}And thy years shall have no end.
 28The sons of thy servants shall continue,{HR}And their seed shall be established before thee. (Psa. 102:3‑28)
;
Job 3:24• 24For instead of my bread cometh my sighing,{HR}And like waters are my groans poured forth. (Job 3:24)
;
Rom. 9:2• 2that I have great grief and unceasing pain in my heart, (Rom. 9:2)
strength.
Psa. 71:9• 9Cast me not off in the time of old age;{HR}When my strength faileth, forsake me not. (Psa. 71:9)
bones.
Psa. 32:3‑4• 3When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day.
 4For by day and by night thy hand is heavy upon me;{HR}My moisture hath been changed into the droughts of summer. Selah. (Psa. 32:3‑4)
;
Psa. 102:3‑5• 3For my days are consumed like smoke,{HR}And my bones are burned as a firebrand.
 4My heart is smitten as grass and dried up;{HR}For I forget to eat my bread.
 5From the voice of my groaning{HR}My bone cleaveth to my flesh. (Psa. 102:3‑5)
• His life is spent in grief; his years with sighing; his strength fails because of his distress (“iniquity” can better be translated “misery” or “distress”). (“Psalm 31” by H. Smith)
• Then the language of Christ is again heard as He surrendered Himself into the hand of God (vs. 10-16) (“iniquity” in v.10 should be “distress”). (“Book 1.” by B. Anstey)

J. N. Darby Translation

+
10
For my life is spent with sorrow, and my years with sighing; my strength faileth through mine iniquitya, and my bones are wasted.

JND Translation Notes

+
a
Or "my misery (distress)"; but as meaning "punishment."

W. Kelly Translation

+
10
For my life hath been spenta in sorrow, and my years in sighing;{HR}My strength hath been feeble through mine iniquity,{HR}And my bones have been consumed.

WK Translation Notes

+
a
Or, hath wasted away.