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Verse Psalms 31:9. _MINE EYE IS CONSUMED_] He now returns, and speaks
of his present situation. Grief had brought many tears from his eyes,
many agonies into his soul, and many distressful feelings in...
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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, either th...
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Psalms 31
The Enemies of Israel and the Victory
_ 1. The prayer for deliverance (Psalms 31:1)_
2. The victory (Psalms 31:19)...
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XXXI. Prayer in distress strangely intermingled with such confidence
in God that the deliverance seems to be already accomplished.
PSALMS 31:1_ A_. Recurs with textual variants in Psalms 71:1.
Psalm...
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HAVE MERCY UPON. Show favour or grace to.
BELLY. Put by Figure of speech _Synecdoche_ (of Part), App-6, for
"body"....
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Be gracious unto me, O Jehovah, for I am in distress:
Mine eye is wasted away because of provocation, yea, my soul and my
body.
Cp. Psalms 6:7 _a_; amplified here by the addition of _my soul and my...
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The tone of the Psalm changes. The recollection of past mercies brings
present suffering into sharper relief. "A sorrow's crown of sorrow is
remembering happier things." This part of the Psalm reminds...
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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....
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PSALMS 31
DESCRIPTIVE TITLE
Fellowship in Suffering and Salvation.
ANALYSIS
Stanzas I., and II, Psalms 31:1-8, Suffering, caused chiefly by
enemies, some of them Idolatrous, Overcome by Steadfast F...
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_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.
I AM...
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BELLY] RV 'body.'...
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The writer of this Ps. gratefully records God's past deliverances
(Psalms 31:1), appeals to God for help against the enemies who assail
him in the present (Psalms 31:9), and ends with fervent thankful...
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Psalms 1:41
_GORDON CHURCHYARD_
Words in boxes are from the Bible.
The notes explain some of the words with a *star by them. Tap the *
before a word to show an explanation.
The translated Bible tex...
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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.
BELLY....
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_[Psalms 31:10]_ חָנֵּ֥נִי יְהוָה֮ כִּ֤י צַ֫ר
־לִ֥י...
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Psalms 31:1
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 the top...
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A CRY OUT OF DEEP TROUBLE
Psalms 31:1
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 alternates betwe...
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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 first...
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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....
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Do not. This may be spoken by God, or by the psalmist; as an
admonition to hear the counsel of those divinely commissioned.
(Calmet) --- Who come. Protestants, "lest they come near," (Haydock)
and thr...
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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 cl...
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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, but beca...
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Psalms 31 is a proof how Jesus could use devout and holy expressions
of a psalm, and indeed pass through all in spirit, without its having
a literal application to Him. Here is found the expression He...
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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 ar...
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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 hitherto...
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_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 my...
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Have mercy upon me, O Lord, being gracious to the unworthy, FOR I AM
IN TROUBLE, distressed and oppressed; MINE EYE IS CONSUMED WITH GRIEF,
wasted away with vexation, YEA, MY SOUL AND MY BELLY, his en...
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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 when...
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9-18 David's troubles made him a man of sorrows. Herein he was a type
of Christ, who was acquainted with grief. David acknowledged that his
afflictions were merited by his own sins, but Christ suffer...
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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 my burden...
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Psalms 31:9 mercy H2603 (H8798) LORD H3068 trouble H6887 (H8804) eye
H5869 away H6244 (H8804) grief...
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Psalms 31:1. _In thee, O LORD, do I put my trust;_
This is a good beginning; this is the fulcrum which will give us the
necessary leverage for lifting any weight of sorrow or trouble that
may be burd...
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To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. This Psalm was meant to be
sung, therefore it was dedicated to the chief musician; yet it is a
Psalm of which at least half is very sorrowful. All our hymns we...
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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 our...
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CONTENTS: David implores God's help against enemies and extols God for
his preservation.
CHARACTERS: God, David.
CONCLUSION: All our affairs are safe in Jehovah's hands; without
reservation therefor...
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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; and...
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_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.
2. His...
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PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 31:1. This is a lament seeking God’s
help amid persecution (vv. Psalms 31:4,...
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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 (Heb.), and 1 Sam...
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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 confidence (Psalm...
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Let's turn now in our Bibles to Psalms 31:1-24. This thirty-first
psalm is actually divided into three sections. The first one covering
the first eight verses, the second one covering verses Psalms 31...
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Job 17:7; Job 33:19; Lamentations 4:17; Lamentations 5:17; Psal
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Grief — With continual weeping....