Psalms 31:9
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Other commentaries on this verse
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Psalms 31:9. Have mercy upon me, O LORD, for I am in trouble:
In this short sentence of four words, - "I am in trouble," - David gives the text of which the next few verses are a kind of sermon, with divisions and subdivisions.
Psalms 31:9. Mine eye is consumed with grief,
"My eyes seem burnt up with scalding tears." The salt of our tears wears out the very strength of our life: "Mine eye is consumed with grief," -
Psalms 31:9. Yea, my soul and my belly.
Or, "’body,’ The inward part of my being seems washed away with the deluge of my tears."