Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

Be gracious to me, O Lord, for I am in distress;
My eye is wasted away from grief, my soul and my body also.

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

Be gracious to me, Lord,
because I am in distress;
my eyes are worn out from angry sorrow—
my whole being as well.

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.

The Emphasized Bible

Show me favour, O Yahweh, for in distress am I, - Wasted with vexation, is mine eye - my soul and my body;

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.

References

Watsons

Context Readings

A Plea For Protection

8 and you have not delivered me into the hand of the enemy; you have set my feet in a broad place. 9 Be gracious to me, O Lord, for I am in distress;
My eye is wasted away from grief, my soul and my body also.
10 For my life is spent with sorrow, and my years with sighing; my strength fails because of my iniquity, and my bones waste away.

Cross References

Psalm 6:7

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

Job 17:7

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

Job 33:19-22

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

Psalm 6:1-2

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

Psalm 22:14-15

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;

Psalm 38:1-10

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

Psalm 44:25

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

Psalm 66:14

that which my lips uttered and my mouth promised when I was in trouble.

Psalm 73:14

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

Psalm 73:26

My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.

Psalm 88:3-5

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

Psalm 88:9

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

Psalm 102:3-5

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

Psalm 107:10

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

Lamentations 4:17

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

Lamentations 5:17

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

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