By reason of the voice of my groaning - By suffering and trouble, so great as to produce groaning, my flesh is wasted away.

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Skin. —See margin. In Lamentations 4:8, more correctly, my skin cleaveth to my bones; a picture of emaciation, the result…

For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as an hearth. My heart is smitten, and withered like grass; so that I forget to ea…

By reason of the voice of my groaning: Under the burden of sin, and pressure of afflictions.

The whole word of God is of use to direct us in prayer; but here, as often elsewhere, the Holy Spirit has put words into our mouths. Here is a pray…