Psalms 102:5
Through my loud groaning my flesh clings to my bones.
BSB
ASV
By reason of the voice of my groaning My bones cleave to my flesh.
KJV
By reason of the voice of my groaning my bones cleave to my skin.
By reason of the voice of my groaning my bone has cleaved to my flesh. Let those who do penance learn how they ought to do penance. For I so dried myself up, that I was without flesh, and my skin clung to my bones. He said 'flesh' for 'skin.'
By reason of the voice of my groaning,.... Under the burden of sin, and pressure of afflictions: my bones cleave to my skin; was quite emaciated, reduced to a skeleton, became nothing but skin and bone (e); which sometimes is occasioned, as by outward afflictions, so by soul troubles: or "to my flesh" (f); flesh is put for skin; see Job 19:20. (e) "Ossa atque pellis sum", Plauti Capteivei, Act. 1. Sc. 2. v. 26. Asinaria 3. 6. v. 28. (f) לבשרי "carni meae", V. L. Pagninus, Montanus, &c.
By reason of the voice of my groaning my bones cleave to my skin. He became emaciated with sorrow. He had groaned himself down to a living skeleton, and so in his bodily appearance was the more like the smoke-dried, withered, burnt-up things to which he had previously compared himself. It will be a very long time before the distresses of the church of God make some Christians shrivel into anatomies, but this good man was so moved with sympathy for Zion's ills that he was wasted down to skin and bone.
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Proverbs 17:22A joyful heart is good medicine, but a broken spirit dries up the bones.
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A joyful heart makes a cheerful countenance, but sorrow of the heart crushes the spirit.
Anxiety weighs down the heart of a man, but a good word cheers it up.
The spirit of a man can endure his sickness, but who can survive a broken spirit?
Godly sorrow brings repentance that leads to salvation without regret, but worldly sorrow brings death.
Go, eat your bread with joy, and drink your wine with a cheerful heart, for God has already approved your works:
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Psalms 6:8Depart from me, all you workers of iniquity, for the LORD has heard my weeping.
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And he will answer, ‘I tell you, I do not know where you are from. Depart from me, all you evildoers.’
The LORD is near to all who call on Him, to all who call out to Him in truth.
Depart from me, you evildoers, that I may obey the commandments of my God.