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Psalm 31

Psa. 31:10 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Fori my life
chay (Hebrew #2416)
alive; hence, raw (flesh); fresh (plant, water, year), strong; also (as noun, especially in the feminine singular and masculine plural) life (or living thing), whether literally or figuratively
KJV usage: + age, alive, appetite, (wild) beast, company, congregation, life(-time), live(-ly), living (creature, thing), maintenance, + merry, multitude, + (be) old, quick, raw, running, springing, troop.
Pronounce: khah'-ee
Origin: from 2421
is spent
kalah (Hebrew #3615)
to end, whether intransitive (to cease, be finished, perish) or transitived (to complete, prepare, consume)
KJV usage: accomplish, cease, consume (away), determine, destroy (utterly), be (when ... were) done, (be an) end (of), expire, (cause to) fail, faint, finish, fulfil, X fully, X have, leave (off), long, bring to pass, wholly reap, make clean riddance, spend, quite take away, waste.
Pronounce: kaw-law'
Origin: a primitive root
with grief
yagown (Hebrew #3015)
affliction
KJV usage: grief, sorrow.
Pronounce: yaw-gohn'
Origin: from 3013
, and my years
shaneh (Hebrew #8141)
from 8138; a year (as a revolution of time)
KJV usage: + whole age, X long, + old, year(X -ly).
Pronounce: shaw-neh'
Origin: (in plura or (feminine) shanah {shaw-naw'}
with sighing
'anachah (Hebrew #585)
sighing
KJV usage: groaning, mourn, sigh.
Pronounce: an-aw-khaw'
Origin: from 585
: my strength
koach (Hebrew #3581)
from an unused root meaning to be firm; vigor, literally (force, in a good or a bad sense) or figuratively (capacity, means, produce); also (from its hardiness) a large lizard
KJV usage: ability, able, chameleon, force, fruits, might, power(-ful), strength, substance, wealth.
Pronounce: ko'-akh
Origin: or (Dan. 11:6) kowach {ko'-akh}
faileth
kashal (Hebrew #3782)
to totter or waver (through weakness of the legs, especially the ankle); by implication, to falter, stumble, faint or fall
KJV usage: bereave (from the margin), cast down, be decayed, (cause to) fail, (cause, make to) fall (down, -ing), feeble, be (the) ruin(-ed, of), (be) overthrown, (cause to) stumble, X utterly, be weak.
Pronounce: kaw-shal'
Origin: a primitive root
because of mine iniquity
`avon (Hebrew #5771)
from 5753; perversity, i.e. (moral) evil
KJV usage: fault, iniquity, mischeif, punishment (of iniquity), sin.
Pronounce: aw-vone'
Origin: or oavown (2 Kings 7:9; Psalm 51:5 (7)) {aw-vone'}
, and my bones
`etsem (Hebrew #6106)
a bone (as strong); by extension, the body; figuratively, the substance, i.e. (as pron.) selfsame
KJV usage: body, bone, X life, (self-)same, strength, X very.
Pronounce: eh'tsem
Origin: from 6105
are consumed
`ashesh (Hebrew #6244)
probably to shrink, i.e. fail
KJV usage: be consumed.
Pronounce: aw-shaysh'
Origin: a primitive root
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Psa. 102:3• 3For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as a firebrand. (Psa. 102:3)
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Ministry on This Verse

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my life.
Psa. 78:33• 33And he consumed their days in vanity, and their years in terror. (Psa. 78:33)
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Psa. 88:15• 15I am afflicted and expiring from my youth up; I suffer thy terrors, and I am distracted. (Psa. 88:15)
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Psa. 102:3‑28• 3For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as a firebrand.
 4My heart is smitten and withered like grass; yea, I have forgotten to eat my bread.
 5By reason of the voice of my groaning, my bones cleave to my flesh.
 6I am become like the pelican of the wilderness, I am as an owl in desolate places;
 7I watch, and am like a sparrow alone upon the housetop.
 8Mine enemies reproach me all the day; they that are mad against me swear by me.
 9For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping,
 10Because of thine indignation and thy wrath; for thou hast lifted me up, and cast me down.
 11My days are like a lengthened-out shadow, and I, I am withered like grass.
 12But thou, Jehovah, abidest for ever, and thy memorial from generation to generation.
 13*Thou* wilt rise up, thou wilt have mercy upon Zion: for it is the time to be gracious to her, for the set time is come.
 14For thy servants take pleasure in her stones, and favour her dust.
 15And the nations shall fear the name of Jehovah, and all the kings of the earth thy glory.
 16When Jehovah shall build up Zion, he will appear in his glory.
 17He will regard the prayer of the destitute one, and not despise their prayer.
 18This shall be written for the generation to come; and a people that shall be created shall praise Jah:
 19For he hath looked down from the height of his sanctuary; from the heavens hath Jehovah beheld the earth,
 20To hear the groaning of the prisoner, to loose those that are appointed to die;
 21That the name of Jehovah may be declared in Zion, and his praise in Jerusalem,
 22When the peoples shall be gathered together, and the kingdoms, to serve Jehovah.
 23He weakened my strength in the way, he shortened my days.
 24I said, My *God, take me not away in the midst of my days! … Thy years are from generation to generation.
 25Of old hast thou founded the earth, and the heavens are the work of thy hands:
 26*They* shall perish, but *thou* continuest; and all of them shall grow old as a garment: as a vesture shalt thou change them, and they shall be changed.
 27But thou art the Same, and thy years shall have no end.
 28The children of thy servants shall abide, and their seed shall be established before thee. (Psa. 102:3‑28)
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Job 3:24• 24For my sighing cometh before my bread, and my groanings are poured out like the waters. (Job 3:24)
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Rom. 9:2• 2that I have great grief and uninterrupted pain in my heart, (Rom. 9:2)
strength.
Psa. 71:9• 9Cast me not off in the time of old age; forsake me not when my strength faileth. (Psa. 71:9)
bones.
Psa. 32:3‑4• 3When I kept silence, my bones waxed old, through my groaning all the day long.
 4For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me; my moisture was turned into the drought of summer. Selah. (Psa. 32:3‑4)
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Psa. 102:3‑5• 3For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as a firebrand.
 4My heart is smitten and withered like grass; yea, I have forgotten to eat my bread.
 5By reason of the voice of my groaning, my bones cleave to my flesh. (Psa. 102:3‑5)
• His life is spent in grief; his years with sighing; his strength fails because of his distress (“iniquity” can better be translated “misery” or “distress”). (“Psalms 31” by H. Smith)
• Then the language of Christ is again heard as He surrendered Himself into the hand of God (vs. 10-16) (“iniquity” in v.10 should be “distress”). (“Book 1.” by B. Anstey)

J. N. Darby Translation

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For my life is spent with sorrow, and my years with sighing; my strength faileth through mine iniquitya, and my bones are wasted.

JND Translation Notes

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Or "my misery (distress)"; but as meaning "punishment."