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Psalm 31:9 KJV
Psalms · chapter 31 · verse 9
Have mercy upon me, O LORD, for I am in trouble: mine eye is consumed with grief, yea, my soul and my belly.Psalm 31:9 · King James Version
Psalm 31:9 in context
7I will be glad and rejoice in thy mercy: for thou hast considered my trouble; thou hast known my soul in adversities;
8And hast not shut me up into the hand of the enemy: thou hast set my feet in a large room.
9Have mercy upon me, O LORD, for I am in trouble: mine eye is consumed with grief, yea, my soul and my belly.
10For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing: my strength faileth because of mine iniquity, and my bones are consumed.
11I 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.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- consumedʻâshêshprobably to shrinkH6244 →
- troubletsârarto cramp, literally or figuratively, transitive or intransitiveH6887 →
- mercychânanproperly, to bend or stoop in kindness to an inferiorH2603 →
- griefkaʻaçvexationH3708 →
- LORDYᵉhôvâhJehovah, Jewish national name of GodH3068 →
- soulnepheshproperly, a breathing creatureH5315 →
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In the foregoing verses David had appealed to God's righteousness, and pleaded his relation to him and dependence on him; here he appeals to his mercy, and pleads the greatness of his own misery, which made his case the proper object of that mercy. Observe, I.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 9-18