Parallel Verses
The Emphasized Bible
Show me favour, O Yahweh, for in distress am I, - Wasted with vexation, is mine eye - my soul and my body;
New American Standard Bible
My
King James Version
Have mercy upon me, O LORD, for I am in trouble: mine eye is consumed with grief, yea, my soul and my belly.
Holman Bible
because I am in distress;
my eyes are worn out from angry sorrow—
my whole being
International Standard Version
Be gracious to me, LORD, for I am in distress. My eyes have been consumed by my grief along with my soul and my body.
A Conservative Version
Have mercy upon me, O LORD, for I am in distress. My eye wastes away with grief, [yea], my soul and my body.
American Standard Version
Have mercy upon me, O Jehovah, for I am in distress: Mine eye wasteth away with grief, yea , my soul and my body.
Amplified
Be gracious and compassionate to me, O Lord, for I am in trouble;
My eye is clouded and weakened by grief, my soul and my body also.
Bible in Basic English
Have mercy on me, O Lord, for I am in trouble; my eyes are wasted with grief, I am wasted in soul and body.
Darby Translation
Be gracious unto me, Jehovah, for I am in trouble: mine eye wasteth away with vexation, my soul and my belly.
Julia Smith Translation
Pity me, O Jehovah, for straits are to me: mine eye fell away; with trouble my soul and my belly.
King James 2000
Have mercy upon me, O LORD, for I am in trouble: my eye is consumed with grief, yea, my soul and my body.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Be gracious [to] me, O Yahweh, because I have distress. My eye wastes away because of vexation, [along with] my soul and my {body}.
Modern King James verseion
Have mercy on me, O Jehovah, for I am in trouble; my eye has become old with grief, my soul and my belly.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Have mercy upon me, O LORD, for I am in trouble, and mine eye is consumed for very heaviness, yea my soul and my body.
NET Bible
Have mercy on me, for I am in distress! My eyes grow dim from suffering. I have lost my strength.
New Heart English Bible
Have mercy on me, LORD, for I am in distress. My eye, my soul, and my body waste away with grief.
Webster
Have mercy upon me, O LORD, for I am in trouble: my eye is consumed with grief, yes, my soul and my belly.
World English Bible
Have mercy on me, Yahweh, for I am in distress. My eye, my soul, and my body waste away with grief.
Youngs Literal Translation
Favour me, O Jehovah, for distress is to me, Mine eye, my soul, and my body Have become old by provocation.
Themes
References
Watsons
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 31:9
Prayers for Psalm 31:9
Verse Info
Context Readings
A Plea For Protection
8 And hast not shut me up in the hand of the foe, Thou hast given standing, in a roomy place, unto my feet. 9 Show me favour, O Yahweh, for in distress am I, - Wasted with vexation, is mine eye - my soul and my body; 10 For, consumed with sorrow, is my life, and my years with sighing, - My strength hath staggered with my humiliation, and, my bones, are without marrow.
Names
Cross References
Psalm 6:7
My face, is all sunken with sorrow, - it hath aged, because of all mine adversaries.
Job 17:7
Therefore hath mine eye become dim from vexation, and, my members, are like a shadow, all of them.
Job 33:19-22
Or he is chastised with pain, upon his bed, and, the strife of his bones, is unceasing!
Psalm 6:1-2
O Yahweh! do not, in thine anger, correct me, nor, in thy wrath, chastise me.
Psalm 22:14-15
Like water, am I poured out, and, put out of joint, are all my bones, - My heart, hath become, like wax, it is melted in the midst of my body;
Psalm 38:1-10
O Yahweh, do not, in thine anger, correct me, nor, in thy wrath, chastise me;
Psalm 44:25
For our soul, sinketh down to the dust, Our body, cleaveth to the earth.
Psalm 66:14
Which my lips uttered, And my mouth spake, in my distress.
Psalm 73:14
And yet been smitten all the day, And been rebuked morning by morning!
Psalm 73:26
Failed have my flesh and my heart, The rock of my heart - and my portion, is God unto times age-abiding.
Psalm 88:3-5
For my soul, is sated with misfortunes, And, my life - unto Hades, hath drawn near;
Psalm 88:9
Mine eye, hath dimmed through affliction; I have called upon thee, O Yahweh, all day long, I have spread out, unto thee, my hands.
Psalm 102:3-5
For, consumed in smoke, are my days, And, my bones, like a burning mass, are scorched through;
Psalm 107:10
The dwellers in darkness and death-shade, bound with oppression and iron;
Lamentations 4:17
Silly shall our eyes fail, for our help that is vain: In our watchtower, have we watched - for a nation that will not save.
Lamentations 5:17
For this cause, faint is our heart, For these things, dimmed are our eyes: