World English Bible
Psalms 31:9
“Have mercy on me, Yahweh, for I am in distress. My eye, my soul, and my body waste away with grief.”
Verse in context — Psalms 31
7
I will be glad and rejoice in your loving kindness, for you have seen my affliction. You have known my soul in adversities.
8
You have not shut me up into the hand of the enemy. You have set my feet in a large place.
9
Have mercy on me, Yahweh, for I am in distress. My eye, my soul, and my body waste away with grief.
10
For my life is spent with sorrow, my years with sighing. My strength fails because of my iniquity. My bones are wasted away.
11
Because of all my adversaries I have become utterly contemptible to my neighbors, A fear to my acquaintances. Those who saw me on the street fled from me.
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