Psalm 31:9
Old Testament • 10 words with Strong's data
"Have mercy upon me, O LORD, for I am in trouble: mine eye is consumed with grief, yea, my soul and my belly."
Word-by-Word Analysis
חֵסֵד
chêçêd
kindness; by implication (towards God) piety; rarely (by opposition) reproof, or (subject.) beauty
יְהֹוָה
Yᵉhôvâh
Jehovah, Jewish national name of God
צָרָה
tsârâh
tightness (i.e. figuratively, trouble); transitively, a female rival:
עַיִן
ʻayin
an eye (literally or figuratively); by analogy, a fountain (as the eye of the landscape)
כָּלָה
kâlâh
to end, whether intransitive (to cease, be finished, perish) or transitived (to complete, prepare, consume)
כְּאֵב
kᵉʼêb
suffering (physical or mental), adversity
נֶפֶשׁ
nephesh
properly, a breathing creature, i.e. animal of (abstractly) vitality; used very widely in a literal, accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or menta...
בֶּטֶן
beṭen
the belly, especially the womb; also the bosom or body of anything
Key Terms in This Verse
בֶּטֶן beṭen
the belly, especially the womb; also the bosom or body of anything
Study H990 →כָּלָה kâlâh
to end, whether intransitive (to cease, be finished, perish) or transitived (to complete, prepare, consume)
Study H3615 →צָרָה tsârâh
tightness (i.e. figuratively, trouble); transitively, a female rival:
Study H6869 →עַיִן ʻayin
an eye (literally or figuratively); by analogy, a fountain (as the eye of the landscape)
Study H5869 →חֵסֵד chêçêd
kindness; by implication (towards God) piety; rarely (by opposition) reproof, or (subject.) beauty
Study H2617 →נֶפֶשׁ nephesh
properly, a breathing creature, i.e. animal of (abstractly) vitality; used very widely in a literal, accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or mental)
Study H5315 →Cross References
Mine eye is consumed because of grief; it waxeth old because of all mine enemies.
Mine eye mourneth by reason of affliction: LORD, I have called daily upon thee, I have stretched out my hands unto thee.
My flesh and my heart faileth: but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever.
For all the day long have I been plagued, and chastened every morning.
As for us, our eyes as yet failed for our vain help: in our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save us.
For our soul is bowed down to the dust: our belly cleaveth unto the earth.
Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members are as a shadow.
For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes are dim.
Which my lips have uttered, and my mouth hath spoken, when I was in trouble.
Such as sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, being bound in affliction and iron;
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