Psalm 31:9

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Have mercy upon me, O LORD, for I am in trouble: mine eye is consumed with grief, yea, my soul and my belly.

My eye wastes away because of grief; it grows weak because of all my foes.

my eye grows dim through sorrow. Every day I call upon you, O LORD; I spread out my hands to you.

My eye has grown dim from vexation, and all my members are like a shadow.

Our eyes failed, ever watching vainly for help; in our watching we watched for a nation which could not save.

For this our heart has become sick, for these things our eyes have grown dim,

O LORD, rebuke me not in your anger, nor discipline me in your wrath.

I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint; my heart is like wax; it is melted within my breast;

O LORD, rebuke me not in your anger, nor discipline me in your wrath!

For our soul is bowed down to the dust; our belly clings to the ground.

For all the day long I have been stricken and rebuked every morning.

For my soul is full of troubles, and my life draws near to Sheol.

For my days pass away like smoke, and my bones burn like a furnace.

Some sat in darkness and in the shadow of death, prisoners in affliction and in irons,

"Man is also rebuked with pain on his bed and with continual strife in his bones,