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10For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing: my strength faileth because of mine iniquity, and my bones are consumed.
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I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up: while I suffer thy terrors I am distracted.
There is no soundness in my flesh because of thine anger; neither is there any rest in my bones because of my sin.
Therefore their days did he consume in vanity, and their years in trouble.
That I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart.
When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 9-18)In the Ps. 31:1-8 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. The complaint he makes of his trouble and distress (Ps. 31:9): “ Have mercy upon me, O Lord! for I am in trouble , and need thy mercy.” The remem…
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