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Psalm 31

Psa. 31:9 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Have mercy
chanan (Hebrew #2603)
properly, to bend or stoop in kindness to an inferior; to favor, bestow; causatively to implore (i.e. move to favor by petition)
KJV usage: beseech, X fair, (be, find, shew) favour(-able), be (deal, give, grant (gracious(-ly), intreat, (be) merciful, have (shew) mercy (on, upon), have pity upon, pray, make supplication, X very.
Pronounce: khaw-nan'
Origin: a primitive root (compare 2583)
upon me, O Lord
Yhovah (Hebrew #3068)
(the) self-Existent or Eternal; Jehovah, Jewish national name of God
KJV usage: Jehovah, the Lord. Compare 3050, 3069.
Pronounce: yeh-ho-vaw'
Origin: from 1961
, for I am in trouble
tsarar (Hebrew #6887)
to cramp, literally or figuratively, transitive or intransitive (as follows)
KJV usage: adversary, (be in) afflict(-ion), beseige, bind (up), (be in, bring) distress, enemy, narrower, oppress, pangs, shut up, be in a strait (trouble), vex.
Pronounce: tsaw-rar'
Origin: a primitive root
: mine eye
`ayin (Hebrew #5869)
an eye (literally or figuratively); by analogy, a fountain (as the eye of the landscape)
KJV usage: affliction, outward appearance, + before, + think best, colour, conceit, + be content, countenance, + displease, eye((-brow), (-d), -sight), face, + favour, fountain, furrow (from the margin), X him, + humble, knowledge, look, (+ well), X me, open(-ly), + (not) please, presence, + regard, resemblance, sight, X thee, X them, + think, X us, well, X you(-rselves).
Pronounce: ah'-yin
Origin: probably a primitive word
is consumed
`ashesh (Hebrew #6244)
probably to shrink, i.e. fail
KJV usage: be consumed.
Pronounce: aw-shaysh'
Origin: a primitive root
with grief
ka`ac (Hebrew #3708)
or (in Job) kaoas {kah'-as}; from 3707; vexation: -anger, angry, grief, indignation, provocation, provoking, X sore, sorrow, spite, wrath.
Pronounce: kah'-as
, yea, my soul
nephesh (Hebrew #5315)
properly, a breathing creature, i.e. animal of (abstractly) vitality; used very widely in a literal, accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or mental)
KJV usage: any, appetite, beast, body, breath, creature, X dead(-ly), desire, X (dis-)contented, X fish, ghost, + greedy, he, heart(-y), (hath, X jeopardy of) life (X in jeopardy), lust, man, me, mind, mortally, one, own, person, pleasure, (her-, him-, my-, thy-)self, them (your)-selves, + slay, soul, + tablet, they, thing, (X she) will, X would have it.
Pronounce: neh'-fesh
Origin: from 5314
and my belly
beten (Hebrew #990)
the belly, especially the womb; also the bosom or body of anything
KJV usage: belly, body, + as they be born, + within, womb.
Pronounce: beh'-ten
Origin: from an unused root probably meaning to be hollow
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Soul; Spirit

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Ministry on This Verse

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Psa. 6:7• 7Mine eye is consumed through grief,{HR}It has grown old because of all mine adversaries. (Psa. 6:7)
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Psa. 88:9• 9Mine eye wasteth because of mine affliction.{HR}I have called on thee, O Jehovah, every day,{HR}I have stretched out my hands toward thee. (Psa. 88:9)
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Job 17:7• 7Mine eye also is dim with sorrow,{HR}And all my frame a shadow. (Job 17:7)
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Lam. 4:17• 17As yet for us, our eyes failed for our vain help;{HR}On our watchtowers we watched for a nation that could not save us. (Lam. 4:17)
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Lam. 5:17• 17Because of this our heart is faint; for these our eyes are dim; (Lam. 5:17)
my soul.
Psa. 6:1‑2• 1To the chief musician on stringed instruments, upon Sheminith;{HR}A Psalm of David.{HR}O Jehovah, rebuke me not in thine anger,{HR}And chasten me not in thy hot displeasure.
 2Be merciful unto me, O Jehovah, for I am languishing;{HR}Heal me, O Jehovah, for my bones are terrified. (Psa. 6:1‑2)
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Psa. 22:14‑15• 14I have been poured out like water,{HR}And all my bones have been separated;{HR}My heart has become like wax,{HR}It is melted in the midst of my bowels.
 15My strength has been dried up like a potsherd,{HR}And my tongue is cleaving to my jaws;{HR}And in the dust of death thou settest me. (Psa. 22:14‑15)
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Psa. 38:1‑10• 1A Psalm of David; to bring to remembrance.{HR}O Jehovah, rebuke me not in thine anger,{HR}Nor chasten me in thy hot displeasure.
 2For thine arrows have entered into me,{HR}And thy hand hath come down upon me.
 3There is no soundness in my flesh because of thine anger;{HR}There is no peace in my bones because of my sin.
 4For mine iniquities have passed over my head;{HR}As a heavy burden they are too heavy for me.
 5My wounds have stunk;{HR}They have consumed away because of my folly.
 6I have been bowed down,{HR}I have been brought low to the utmost,{HR}All the day have I walked mourning.
 7For my loins are filled with burning,{HR}And there is no soundness in my flesh.
 8I have been feeble and broken to the uttermost;{HR}I have groaned because of the groaning of my heart.
 9O Lord, before thee [is] all my desire,{HR}And my sighing hath not been hidden from thee.
 10My heart hath panted;{HR}My strength hath forsaken me,{HR}And the light of mine eyes—{HR}Even they are not with me. (Psa. 38:1‑10)
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Psa. 44:25• 25For our soul hath been bowed down to the dust,{HR}Our belly hath cleaved unto the earth. (Psa. 44:25)
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Psa. 73:14,26• 14And I was smitten all the day,{HR}And my rebuking [is] at the mornings.
 26My flesh and my heart faileth;{HR}Rock of my heart and my portion [is] God forever. (Psa. 73:14,26)
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Psa. 88:3‑5• 3For my soul is full of troubles,{HR}And my life draweth nigh to Sheol.
 4I am counted with those that descend to the pit,{HR}I am as a man without strength:
 5Among the dead free, as the slain that lie in the grave,{HR}Whom thou rememberest no more,{HR}And they are cut off from thy hand. (Psa. 88:3‑5)
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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)
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Psa. 107:10• 10Dwellers in darkness and death-shade,{HR}Bound in affliction and iron, (Psa. 107:10)
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Job 33:19‑22• 19He is also chastised with pains on his bed,{HR}And the strife of his bones [is] lasting.
 20And his life loatheth bread,{HR}And his soul meat of desire.
 21His flesh wasteth out of sight,{HR}And his bones that were not seen stand out,
 22And his soul draweth near to corruption,{HR}And his life to the destroyers. (Job 33:19‑22)
• Nevertheless, as to outward appearance, the soul is shut up In the power of the enemy. The circumstances of this trial are spread out before the Lord. His whole body is afflicted by the trial. (“Psalm 31” by H. Smith)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Be gracious unto me, Jehovah, for I am in trouble: mine eye wasteth away with vexation, my soul and my belly.

W. Kelly Translation

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Be gracious unto me, O Jehovah, for I am distressed;{HR}Consumed with grief [is] mine eye, my soul and my belly.