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English Standard Version

Psalms 102:5

Because of my loud groaning my bones cling to my flesh.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Afflictions and Adversities;  

Dictionaries:

- Easton Bible Dictionary - Flesh;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Praise;   Prayer;   Psalms;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Lust;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Pelican;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Psalms the book of;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Groan;   Skin;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Heart;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Because of the sound of my groaning,my flesh sticks to my bones.
Hebrew Names Version
By reason of the voice of my groaning, My bones stick to my skin.
King James Version
By reason of the voice of my groaning my bones cleave to my skin.
New Century Version
Because of my grief, my skin hangs on my bones.
New English Translation
Because of the anxiety that makes me groan, my bones protrude from my skin.
Amplified Bible
Because of the sound of my groaning [in suffering and trouble] My bones cling to my flesh.
New American Standard Bible
Because of the loudness of my groaning My bones cling to my flesh.
World English Bible
By reason of the voice of my groaning, My bones stick to my skin.
Geneva Bible (1587)
For the voyce of my groning my bones doe cleaue to my skinne.
Legacy Standard Bible
Because of the sound of my groaningMy bones cling to my flesh.
Berean Standard Bible
Through my loud groaning, my flesh clings to my bones.
Contemporary English Version
My groaning never stops, and my bones can be seen through my skin.
Complete Jewish Bible
I am stricken and withered like grass; I forget to eat my food.
Darby Translation
By reason of the voice of my groaning, my bones cleave to my flesh.
Easy-to-Read Version
Because of my sadness, I am losing so much weight that my skin hangs from my bones.
George Lamsa Translation
Because of the voice of my groaning, my bones cleave to my skin.
Good News Translation
I groan aloud; I am nothing but skin and bones.
Lexham English Bible
Because of the sound of my groaning my bones cling to my skin.
Literal Translation
Because of the voice of my sighing, my bones cleave to my flesh.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
For the voyce of my gronynge, my bone wil scarse cleue to my flesh.
American Standard Version
By reason of the voice of my groaning My bones cleave to my flesh.
Bible in Basic English
Because of the voice of my sorrow, my flesh is wasted to the bone.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
My heart is smitten like grass, and withered; for I forget to eat my bread.
King James Version (1611)
By reason of the voice of my groning, my bones cleaue to my skinne.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Through the noyse of my gronyng: my bones wyll scase cleaue to my fleshe.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
By reason of the voice of my groaning, my bone has cleaved to my flesh.
English Revised Version
By reason of the voice of my groaning my bones cleave to my flesh.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Of the vois of my weilyng; my boon cleuede to my fleische.
Update Bible Version
By reason of the voice of my groaning My bones cleave to my flesh.
Webster's Bible Translation
By reason of the voice of my groaning, my bones cleave to my skin.
New King James Version
Because of the sound of my groaning My bones cling to my skin.
New Living Translation
Because of my groaning, I am reduced to skin and bones.
New Life Bible
I am nothing but skin and bones because of my loud cries.
New Revised Standard
Because of my loud groaning my bones cling to my skin.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
At the noise of my groaning, my bone, hath cleaved, to my flesh:
Douay-Rheims Bible
(101-6) Through the voice of my groaning, my bone hath cleaved to my flesh.
Revised Standard Version
Because of my loud groaning my bones cleave to my flesh.
Young's Literal Translation
From the voice of my sighing Hath my bone cleaved to my flesh.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Because of the loudness of my groaning My bones cling to my flesh.

Contextual Overview

1

A Prayer of one afflicted, when he is faint and pours out his complaint before the Lord .

Hear my prayer, O Lord ; let my cry come to you! 2 Do not hide your face from me in the day of my distress! Incline your ear to me; answer me speedily in the day when I call! 3 For my days pass away like smoke, and my bones burn like a furnace. 4 My heart is struck down like grass and has withered; I forget to eat my bread. 5 Because of my loud groaning my bones cling to my flesh. 6 I am like a desert owl of the wilderness, like an owl of the waste places; 7 I lie awake; I am like a lonely sparrow on the housetop. 8 All the day my enemies taunt me; those who deride me use my name for a curse. 9 For I eat ashes like bread and mingle tears with my drink, 10 because of your indignation and anger; for you have taken me up and thrown me down.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the voice: Psalms 6:6, Psalms 6:8, Psalms 32:3, Psalms 32:4, Psalms 38:8-10, Job 19:20, Proverbs 17:22, Lamentations 4:8

skin: or, flesh

Reciprocal: 2 Chronicles 2:12 - that made heaven Psalms 38:3 - neither Psalms 38:9 - groaning Psalms 109:24 - my flesh Romans 8:26 - with

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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

My bones cleave to my skin - Margin, “flesh.” The Hebrew word means “flesh.” The effect described is that of a wasting away or an emaciation of flesh from deep distress, so that the bones became prominent, and had nothing to hide them from view; so that they seemed to adhere fast to the flesh itself. See the notes at Job 19:20.


 
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