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By reason of the voice of my groaning, My bones stick to my skin.
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The Body Feels the Soul's Pain
All commentators agree that this verse paints a vivid picture of extreme physical emaciation. The psalmist's suffering is so intense that his body wastes away, leaving him like a skeleton. This highlights the profound and real connection between deep emotional or spiritual anguish and a person's physical health.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
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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19th Century
Anglican
Skin. —See margin. In Lamentations 4:8, more correctly, my skin cleaveth to my bones; a picture of emaciation, the result…
Baptist
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…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
By reason of the voice of my groaning: Under the burden of sin, and pressure of afflictions.
my bones …
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…
