Psalm 31:8-10

Living Bible

⁸You have not handed me over to my enemy but have given me open ground in which to maneuver.

^9-10O Lord, have mercy on me in my anguish. My eyes are red from weeping; my health is broken from sorrow. I am pining away with grief; my years are shortened, drained away because of sadness. My sins have sapped my strength; I stoop with sorrow and with shame.^[a]

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Footnotes

Psalm 31:9 My sins have sapped my strength; I stoop with sorrow and with shame, literally, “Even my bones are rotting away.”

Psalm 31:8-10

New International Version

⁸You have not given me into the hands^(A) of the enemy
but have set my feet in a spacious place.^(B)

⁹Be merciful to me, Lord, for I am in distress;^(C)
    my eyes grow weak with sorrow,^(D)
    my soul and body^(E) with grief.
¹⁰My life is consumed by anguish^(F)
    and my years by groaning;^(G)
my strength fails^(H) because of my affliction,^[a]^(I)
    and my bones grow weak.^(J)