Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Psalms 31:10
Iniquity — For the punishment of mine iniquity. Consumed — The juice and marrow of them bring almost dried up with grief.
Iniquity — For the punishment of mine iniquity. Consumed — The juice and marrow of them bring almost dried up with grief.
Verse Psalms 31:10. _MY LIFE IS SPENT WITH GRIEF_] My life is a life of suffering and distress, and by grief my days are shortened. _Grief_ disturbs the functions of life, prevents the due concoction...
FOR MY LIFE IS SPENT WITH GRIEF - The word here rendered “spent” does not mean merely “passed,” as it is commonly now used, as when we say we “spent” our time at such a place, or in such a manner, but...
Psalms 31 The Enemies of Israel and the Victory _ 1. The prayer for deliverance (Psalms 31:1)_ 2. The victory (Psalms 31:19)...
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...
INIQUITY. Hebrew. _'avah._ App-44. But Septuagint and Syriac read "humiliation"....
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...
_grief_ R.V. sorrow, as in Psalms 13:2; Jeremiah 8:18. _sighing_ Or, _groaning_, as in Psalms 6:6. _my strength_&c. My strength totters because of mine Iniquity, and my bones are wasted away. There w...
MY STRENGTH FAILETH, &C.— _My strength faulters by reason of my affliction._ Mudge and Houbigant....
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...
_FOR MY LIFE IS SPENT WITH GRIEF, AND MY YEARS WITH SIGHING: MY STRENGTH FAILETH BECAUSE OF MINE INIQUITY, AND MY BONES ARE CONSUMED._ For my life ... grief - (Jeremiah 20:18.) MY STRENGTH ... INIQU...
31:10 iniquity, (a-18) Or 'my misery (distress);' but as meaning 'punishment.'...
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...
INIQUITY] As it stands this clause traces the Psalmist's sufferings to his sin. But the LXX and some other versions read 'affliction,' which agrees better with the context....
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...
INIQUITY. — Gesenius and Ewald understand, the _suffering_ that follows on sin rather than the _iniquity_ itself, a meaning that certainly seems to suit the context better. The LXX. and Vulg. have “po...
_[Psalms 31:11]_ כִּ֤י כָל֪וּ בְ יָגֹ֡ון חַיַּי֮...
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...
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...
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...
_Many. Sinners deserve much punishment. But if they will repent they may find mercy. (Worthington) --- This may be also the declaration of God, though the prophet seem to speak in the next verse. (Ber...
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...
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...
FOR MY LIFE IS SPENT WITH GRIEF, AND MY YEARS WITH SIGHING,.... Which shows the continuance of his troubles, and that his whole life had been, as it were, an uninterrupted series of sorrows; MY STREN...
For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing: my strength faileth because of mine iniquity, and my bones are consumed. Ver. 10. _For my life is spent with grief, &c._] Which threateneth...
_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...
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...
For my life is spent, consumed, eaten up, WITH GRIEF, AND MY YEARS WITH SIGHING; MY STRENGTH FAILETH BECAUSE OF MINE INIQUITY, by reason of the suffering which, as a punishment, followed his transgres...
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...
MY LIFE, i.e. the time of my life, as the next clause explains it. BECAUSE OF MINE INIQUITY; either through my deep and just sense of my sins, which have provoked God to afflict me in this manner; or...
Psalms 31:10 life H2416 spent H3615 (H8804) grief H3015 years H8141 sighing H585 strength H3581 fails H3782 ...
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 of...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
_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...
_My strength faileth because of mine iniquity._ --(Nehemiah 8:10). MORAL WEAKNESS AND STRENGTH These two passages tell of the source of both. The psalmist tells us that his iniquity was the cause of...
PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 31:1. This is a lament seeking God’s help amid persecution (vv. Psalms 31:4,...
PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 31:10 David says that he is in distress BECAUSE OF MY INIQUITY. But his prayer is that the purposes of God will prevail rather than the schemes of David’s enemies or the disabilit...
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...
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...
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...
Job 3:24; Psalms 102:3; Psalms 32:3; Psalms 32:4; Psalms 71:9;...