King James Version
Psalms 31:9 in the King James Version says “Have mercy upon me, O LORD, for I am in trouble: mine eye is consumed with grief, yea, my soul and my belly.” — study this verse from Psalms chapter 31 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“Have mercy upon me, O LORD, for I am in trouble: mine eye is consumed with grief, yea, my soul and my belly.”
Psalms 31:9 · KJV
I will be glad and rejoice in thy mercy: for thou hast considered my trouble; thou hast known my soul in adversities;
And hast not shut me up into the hand of the enemy: thou hast set my feet in a large room.
Have mercy upon me, O LORD, for I am in trouble: mine eye is consumed with grief, yea, my soul and my belly.
For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing: my strength faileth because of mine iniquity, and my bones are consumed.
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.
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“Have mercy”
H2603properly, to bend or stoop in kindness to an inferior; to favor, bestow; causatively to implore (i.e., move to favor by petition)
“upon me O LORD”
H3068(the) self-existent or eternal; jeho-vah, jewish national name of god
(by implication) very widely used as a relative conjunction or adverb (as below); often largely modified by other particles annexed
“for I am in trouble”
H6887to cramp, literally or figuratively, transitive or intransitive
“mine eye”
H5869an eye (literally or figuratively); by analogy, a fountain (as the eye of the landscape)
“yea my soul”
H5315properly, a breathing creature, i.e., animal of (abstractly) vitality; used very widely in a literal, accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or ment
“and my belly”
H990the belly, especially the womb; also the bosom or body of anything
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