KJV King James Version
By reason of the voice of my groaning my bones cleave to my skin.
VERSE STUDY • KJV
Psalm 102:5
By reason of the voice of my groaning my bones cleave to my skin.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
Through my loud groaning my skin hangs on my bones.
WEB World English Bible
By reason of the voice of my groaning, my bones stick to my skin.
ASV American Standard Version
By reason of the voice of my groaning My bones cleave to my flesh.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
From the voice of my sighing Hath my bone cleaved to my flesh.
Surrounding context — Psalm 102
2 Hide not thy face from me in the day [when] I am in trouble; incline thine ear unto me: in the day [when] I call answer me speedily.
3 For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as an hearth.
4 My heart is smitten, and withered like grass; so that I forget to eat my bread.
5 By reason of the voice of my groaning my bones cleave to my skin.
6 I am like a pelican of the wilderness: I am like an owl of the desert.
7 I watch, and am as a sparrow alone upon the house top.
8 Mine enemies reproach me all the day; [and] they that are mad against me are sworn against me.
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Job 19:20My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.Lamentations 4:8Their visage is blacker than a coal; they are not known in the streets: their skin cleaveth to their bones; it is withered, it is become like a stick.Proverbs 17:22A merry heart doeth good [like] a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones.Psalm 6:8Depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity; for the LORD hath heard the voice of my weeping.Psalm 32:3-4When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long.Psalm 6:6I am weary with my groaning; all the night make I my bed to swim; I water my couch with my tears.Psalm 38:8-10I am feeble and sore broken: I have roared by reason of the disquietness of my heart.
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