Psalm 31:10 “For my life is consumed with grief and my years with groaning; my iniq…”

Psalm 31:10

For my life is consumed with grief and my years with groaning; my iniquity has drained my strength, and my bones are wasting away.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing: my strength faileth because of mine iniquity, and my bones are consumed.

World English Bible

For my life is spent with sorrow, my years with sighing. My strength fails because of my iniquity. My bones are wasted away.

American Standard Version

For my life is spent with sorrow, And my years with sighing: My strength faileth because of mine iniquity, And my bones are wasted away.

Geneva Bible 1599

For my life is wasted with heauinesse, and my yeeres with mourning: my strength faileth for my paine, and my bones are consumed.

Darby Translation

For my life is spent with sorrow, and my years with sighing; my strength faileth through mine iniquity, and my bones are wasted.

Young's Literal Translation

For 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.

Bible in Basic English

My 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.

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Cross references

“my life”

Psalm 88:15 Psalm 78:33 Romans 9:2 Psalm 102:3–28 Job 3:24

Psalm 88:15 · BSB

From my youth I was afflicted and near death. I have borne Your terrors; I am in despair.

Psalm 78:33 · BSB

So He ended their days in futility, and their years in sudden terror.

Romans 9:2 · BSB

I have deep sorrow and unceasing anguish in my heart.

Psalm 102:3–28 · BSB

For my days vanish like smoke, and my bones burn like glowing embers.

Job 3:24 · BSB

I sigh when food is put before me, and my groans pour out like water.

“strength”

Psalm 71:9

Psalm 71:9 · BSB

Do not discard me in my old age; do not forsake me when my strength fails.

“bones”

Psalm 32:3 Psalm 32:4 Psalm 102:3–5

Psalm 32:3 · BSB

When I kept silent, my bones became brittle from my groaning all day long.

Psalm 32:4 · BSB

For day and night Your hand was heavy upon me; my strength was drained as in the summer heat. Selah

Psalm 102:3–5 · BSB

For my days vanish like smoke, and my bones burn like glowing embers.

Also

Psalm 38:3 Psalm 39:11 Psalm 13:2

Psalm 38:3 · BSB

There is no soundness in my body because of Your anger; there is no rest in my bones because of my sin.

Psalm 39:11 · BSB

You discipline and correct a man for his iniquity, consuming like a moth what he holds dear; surely each man is but a vapor. Selah

Psalm 13:2 · BSB

How long must I wrestle in my soul, with sorrow in my heart each day? How long will my enemy dominate me?

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

9Be merciful to me, O LORD, for I am in distress; my eyes fail from sorrow, my soul and body as well.

11Among all my enemies I am a disgrace, and among my neighbors even more. I am dreaded by my friends— they flee when they see me on the street.

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