Psalms 31:10
What does Psalms 31:10 mean?
A plain-English look at Psalms 31:10 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000For my life is spent with sorrow, And my years with sighing: My strength faileth because of mine iniquity, And my bones are wasted away.
KJV
King James Version · 1611For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing: my strength faileth because of mine iniquity, and my bones are consumed.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901For my life is spent with sorrow, And my years with sighing: My strength faileth because of mine iniquity, And my bones are wasted away.
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949My life goes on in sorrow, and my years in weeping; my strength is almost gone because of my sin, and my bones are wasted away.
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862For my life hath been consumed in sorrow And my years in sighing. Feeble because of mine iniquity hath been my strength, And my bones have become old.
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752Many are the scourges of the sinner, but mercy shall encompass him that hopeth in the Lord.
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890For my life is spent with sorrow, and my years with sighing; my strength faileth through mine iniquity, and my bones are wasted.
Context
v.9Have mercy upon me, O Jehovah, for I am in distress: Mine eye wasteth away with grief, yea, my soul and my body.
v.10This passage
v.11Because of all mine adversaries I am become a reproach, Yea, unto my neighbors exceedingly, And a fear to mine acquaintance: They that did see me without fled from me.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Psalms 32:3
When I kept silence, my bones wasted away Through my groaning all the day long.
- Psalms 88:15
I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up: While I suffer thy terrors I am distracted.
- Job 3:24
For my sighing cometh before I eat, And my groanings are poured out like water.
- Psalms 38:3
There is no soundness in my flesh because of thine indignation; Neither is there any health in my bones because of my sin.
- Romans 9:2
that I have great sorrow and unceasing pain in my heart.
- Psalms 39:11
When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, Thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: Surely every man is vanity. [Selah
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