A moment in scripture
Psalms 31:10
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For 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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The surrounding passage
- Psalms 31:8
And hast not shut me up into the hand of the enemy: thou hast set my feet in a large room.
- Psalms 31:9
Have mercy upon me, O Lord, for I am in trouble: mine eye is consumed with grief, yea, my soul and my belly.
- Psalms 31:11
I was a reproach among all mine enemies, but especially among my neighbours, and a fear to mine acquaintance: they that did see me without fled from me.
- Psalms 31:12
I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am like a broken vessel.
Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.