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Psalm 31:10

Bible in Basic English 1965

My life goes on in sorrow, and my years in weeping; my strength is almost gone because of my sin, and my bones are wasted away.

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In place of my food I have grief, and cries of sorrow come from me like water.

How long is my soul to be in doubt, with sorrow in my heart all the day? how long will he who is against me be given power over me?

O Lord, let the voice of my cry come to your ears: have mercy on me, and give me an answer.

My flesh is wasted because of your wrath; and there is no peace in my bones because of my sin.

By the weight of your wrath against man's sin, the glory of his form is wasted away; truly every man is but a breath. Selah.

Go from me, all you workers of evil; for the Lord has given ear to the voice of my weeping.

Do not give me up when I am old; be my help even when my strength is gone.

So their days were wasted like a breath, and their years in trouble.

I have been troubled and in fear of death from the time when I was young; your wrath is hard on me, and I have no strength.

That I am full of sorrow and pain without end.