Psalms 31:10
“For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing: my strength faileth because of mine iniquity, and my bones are consumed.”
And hast not shut me up into the hand of the enemy: thou hast set my feet in a large room.
Have mercy upon me, O Lord, for I am in trouble: mine eye is consumed with grief, yea, my soul and my belly.
For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing: my strength faileth because of mine iniquity, and my bones are consumed.
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.
I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am like a broken vessel.
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Related Verses
“Mine eye is consumed because of grief; it waxeth old because of all mine enemies.”
“For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as an hearth.”
“My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones.”
“My heart panteth, my strength faileth me: as for the light of mine eyes, it also is gone from me.”
“My days are like a shadow that declineth; and I am withered like grass.”