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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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Mercy,
Soul; Spirit

Cross References

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Ministry on This Verse

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Psa. 6:7• 7Mine eye wasteth away through grief; it hath grown old because of all mine oppressors. (Psa. 6:7)
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Psa. 88:9• 9Mine eye consumeth by reason of affliction. Upon thee, Jehovah, have I called every day; I have stretched out my hands unto thee. (Psa. 88:9)
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Job 17:7• 7And mine eye is dim by reason of grief, and all my members are as a shadow. (Job 17:7)
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Lam. 4:17• 17Our eyes still failed for our vain help; in our watching, we have watched for a nation that did not save. (Lam. 4:17)
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Lam. 5:17• 17For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes have grown dim, (Lam. 5:17)
my soul.
Psa. 6:1‑2• 1To the chief Musician. On stringed instruments, upon Sheminith. A Psalm of David. Jehovah, rebuke me not in thine anger, and chasten me not in thy hot displeasure.
 2Be gracious unto me, Jehovah, for I am withered; Jehovah, heal me, for my bones tremble. (Psa. 6:1‑2)
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Psa. 22:14‑15• 14I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my heart is become like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels.
 15My strength is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue cleaveth to my palate; and thou hast laid me in the dust of death. (Psa. 22:14‑15)
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Psa. 38:1‑10• 1A Psalm of David, to bring to remembrance. Jehovah, rebuke me not in thy wrath; neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure.
 2For thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand cometh down upon me.
 3There is no soundness in my flesh because of thine indignation; no peace in my bones, because of my sin.
 4For mine iniquities are gone over my head: as a heavy burden they are too heavy for me.
 5My wounds stink, they are corrupt, because of my foolishness.
 6I am depressed; I am bowed down beyond measure; I go mourning all the day.
 7For my loins are full of burning, and there is no soundness in my flesh.
 8I am faint and broken beyond measure; I roar by reason of the agitation of my heart.
 9Lord, all my desire is before thee, and my sighing is not hid from thee.
 10My heart throbbeth, my strength hath left me; and the light of mine eyes, it also is no more with me. (Psa. 38:1‑10)
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Psa. 44:25• 25For our soul is bowed down to the dust; our belly cleaveth unto the earth. (Psa. 44:25)
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Psa. 73:14,26• 14For all the day have I been plagued, and chastened every morning.
 26My flesh and my heart faileth: God is the rock of my heart and my portion for ever. (Psa. 73:14,26)
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Psa. 88:3‑5• 3For my soul is full of troubles, and my life draweth nigh to Sheol.
 4I am reckoned with them that go down into the pit; I am as a man that hath no strength:
 5Prostrate among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave; whom thou rememberest no more, and who 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, and my bones are burned as a firebrand.
 4My heart is smitten and withered like grass; yea, I have forgotten to eat my bread.
 5By reason of the voice of my groaning, my bones cleave to my flesh. (Psa. 102:3‑5)
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Psa. 107:10• 10Such as inhabit darkness and the shadow of death, bound in affliction and iron, (Psa. 107:10)
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Job 33:19‑22• 19He is chastened also with pain upon his bed, and with constant strife in his bones;
 20And his life abhorreth bread, and his soul dainty food;
 21His flesh is consumed away from view, and his bones that were not seen stick out;
 22And his soul draweth near to the pit, 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. (“Psalms 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.