Psalms 31:9 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Have mercy upon me, O LORD, for I am in trouble: mine eye is consumed with grief, yea, my soul and my belly. ”

Psalms 31:9 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Have mercy upon me, O Lord, for I am in trouble - The nature and sources of his trouble are specified in the verses following. He seems to have regarded all his trouble as the result of sin, eith...
Psalms 31:9 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Have mercy upon me, O LORD, for I am in trouble: mine (f) eye is consumed with grief, [yea], my soul and my belly. (f) Meaning, that his sorrow and torment had continued a great while.
Psalms 31:9 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

XXXI. Prayer in distress strangely intermingled with such confidence in God that the deliverance seems to be already accomplished. Psalms 31:1-3 a . Recurs with textual variants in Psalms 7...
Psalms 31:9 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Have mercy upon . Show favour or grace to. belly. Put by Figure of speech Synecdoche (of Part), App-6, for "body".
Psalms 31:9 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

9. Have mercy upon me, O Jehovah! To move God to succor him, he magnifies the greatness of his misery and grief by the number of his complaints; not that God needs arguments to persuade him,...
Psalms 31:9 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Have mercy upon me, O LORD, for I am in trouble: mine eye is consumed with grief, yea , my soul and my belly. Mine eye is consumed - He now returns, and speaks of his present situation. Grief had br...
Psalms 31:9 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

My belly— Such is the signification of the original word בטן beten; but it evidently means his body, and is therefore very properly so translated by Fenwick and Green.
Psalms 31:9 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Have mercy upon me, O LORD, for I am in trouble: mine eye is consumed with grief, yea, my soul and my belly. The second strophe. His distress, and his commission of it to the Lord in prayer....
Psalms 31:9 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

The writer of this Ps. gratefully records God's past deliverances ( Psalms 31:1-8 ), appeals to God for help against the enemies who assail him in the present ( Psalms 31:9-18 ), and ends with ferven...
Psalms 31:9 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Mine eye is consumed... — Comp. Psalms 6:7 . It was an old idea that the eye could weep itself away. It is an actual fact that the disease glaucoma is very much influenced by mental emotions....
Psalms 31:9 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Psalms 31:1-24 THE swift transitions of feeling in this psalm may seem strange to colder natures whose lives run smoothly, but reveal a brother-soul to those who have known what it is to ride on t...
Psalms 31:9 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

a Cry out of Deep Trouble Psalms 31:1-13 Some have supposed that this psalm was written during the Sauline persecutions; but it is more likely that it dates from Absalom's rebellion. It alterna...
Psalms 31:9 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

In this great song of trust struggling through tears to triumph, we have a fine example of an experience often repeated in the history of the children of faith. There are three divisions. In the firs...
Psalms 31:9 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

When we recollect how the sorrows of Jesus wasted his strength, so that the Jews spake of him as supposing him near fifty years of age, when he was but little more than thirty, we may discover very c...
Psalms 31:9 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Have mercy upon me, O Lord, for I am in trouble ,.... A sudden change of case and frame this! and so it is with the people of God; as soon as, out of one trouble, they are in another; these are what...
Psalms 31:9 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Have mercy upon me, O LORD, for I am in trouble: mine eye is consumed with grief, [yea], my soul and my belly. Ver. 9. Have mercy upon me, O Lord ] Antiquum obtine, Do now, Lord, as thou hithert...
Psalms 31:9 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Mine eye is consumed with grief With continual weeping; yea, my soul My sorrows are not counterfeit, or slight, but inward and penetrating: my mind is oppressed, my heart is ready to sink under m...
Psalms 31:9 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Sorrowful Complaints; Humble and Believing Prayer. 9 Have mercy upon me, O L ORD , for I am in trouble: mine eye is con...
Psalms 31:9 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

With grief; with continual weeping. See Poole on " Psalms 6:7 " . My soul; my sorrows are not counterfeit or slight, but inward and hearty; my mind is oppressed, my heart is ready to sink under...
Psalms 31:9 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Have mercy on me, O YHWH, For I am in distress, My eye wastes away with grief, Yes, my soul and my body. For my life is spent with sorrow, And my years with sighing, My strength fails because o...
Psalms 31:9 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

INTRODUCTION A psalm, in which the psalmist rises by prayer, from trouble, to lively faith and hope in God. The older interpreters founding on the use of the same word in Psalms 31:2-3 (Heb.), and...
Psalms 31:9 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Psalms 31:1 . In thee, O LORD, do I put my trust; Can we say as much as that? However else this Psalm of David may end, it strikes a grand key-note, that which should be the first indication of o...
Psalms 31:9 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Psalms 31:5 . Into thine hand I commit my spirit, the words which our Saviour used on the cross, and the words which St. Stephen used the moment before his death, when addressing the Lord Jesus; a...
Psalms 31:9 - The Biblical Illustrator

Have mercy upon me, O Lord, for I am in trouble. The complaints of a sufferer, and the entreaties of a suppliant I. the complaints of a sufferer. 1. His sufferings were mental and severe....
Psalms 31:9 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION THIS psalm is, in the main, a cry for deliverance out of pressing danger and trouble; but it is interspersed with passages of a more cheerful tone, expressive of faith and confidenc...
Psalms 31:9 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Believer's Humble and Confident Submission to the Hand of God. To the chief musician, for performance in the liturgical part of the Tabernacle worship, a psalm of David, written at some time w...
Psalms 31:9 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Job 17:7 ; Job 33:19-22 ; Lamentations 4:17 ; Lamentations 5:17 ; Psalms 102:3-5 ; Psalms 107:10 ; Psalms 22:14 ; Psalms 22:15 ; Psalms 38:1-10 ; Psalms 44:25 ; Psalms 6:1 ; Psalms 6:2 ;...
Psalms 31:9 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Grief — With continual weeping.

Psalms 31:9 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Psalms 31:9 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Psalms 31:9 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Psalms 31:9 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Psalms 31:9 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Psalms 31:9 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Psalms 31:9 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Psalms 31:9 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Psalms 31:9 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Psalms 31:9 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Psalms 31:9 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Psalms 31:9 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Psalms 31:9 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Psalms 31:9 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Psalms 31:9 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Psalms 31:9 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Psalms 31:9 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Psalms 31:9 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Psalms 31:9 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Psalms 31:9 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Psalms 31:9 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Psalms 31:9 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Psalms 31:9 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Psalms 31:9 - The Biblical Illustrator

Psalms 31:9 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Psalms 31:9 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Psalms 31:9 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 31:9 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes