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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 is consumed because of grief; it waxeth old because of all mine enemies. (Psa. 6:7)
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Psa. 88:9• 9Mine eye mourneth by reason of affliction: Lord, I have called daily upon thee, I have stretched out my hands unto thee. (Psa. 88:9)
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Job 17:7• 7Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members are as a shadow. (Job 17:7)
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Lam. 4:17• 17As for us, our eyes as yet failed for our vain help: in our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save us. (Lam. 4:17)
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Lam. 5:17• 17For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes are dim. (Lam. 5:17)
my soul.
Psa. 6:1‑2• 1<<To the chief Musician on Neginoth upon Sheminith, A Psalm of David.>> O Lord, rebuke me not in thine anger, neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure.
 2Have mercy upon me, O Lord; for I am weak: O Lord, heal me; for my bones are vexed. (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 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 jaws; and thou hast brought me into the dust of death. (Psa. 22:14‑15)
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Psa. 38:1‑10• 1<<A Psalm of David, to bring to remembrance.>> O Lord, rebuke me not in thy wrath: neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure.
 2For thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand presseth me sore.
 3There is no soundness in my flesh because of thine anger; neither is there any rest in my bones because of my sin.
 4For mine iniquities are gone over mine head: as an heavy burden they are too heavy for me.
 5My wounds stink and are corrupt because of my foolishness.
 6I am troubled; I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long.
 7For my loins are filled with a loathsome disease: and there is no soundness in my flesh.
 8I am feeble and sore broken: I have roared by reason of the disquietness of my heart.
 9Lord, all my desire is before thee; and my groaning is not hid from thee.
 10My heart panteth, my strength faileth me: as for the light of mine eyes, it also is gone from 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 long have I been plagued, and chastened every morning.
 26My flesh and my heart faileth: but God is the strength 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 unto the grave.
 4I am counted with them that go down into the pit: I am as a man that hath no strength:
 5Free among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom thou rememberest no more: 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, and my bones are burned as an hearth.
 4My heart is smitten, and withered like grass; so that I forget to eat my bread.
 5By reason of the voice of my groaning my bones cleave to my skin. (Psa. 102:3‑5)
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Psa. 107:10• 10Such as sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, being 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 the multitude of his bones with strong pain:
 20So that his life abhorreth bread, and his soul dainty meat.
 21His flesh is consumed away, that it cannot be seen; and his bones that were not seen stick out.
 22Yea, his soul draweth near unto the grave, 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.