Psalm 31:9
Have mercy upon me, O Lord, for I am in trouble: mine eye is consumed with grief, yea, my soul and my belly.
Cross-reference
Psalm 102:3-5 uses vivid imagery of bones burning, heart withered, and groaning — a direct parallel to the physical and emotional distress here.
Psalm 88:9 says 'my eye grows dim through sorrow'—the same physical sign of deep distress as here.
Psalm 6:2 echoes the same plea for mercy due to physical weakness and agony — a direct parallel to the distress described here.
Psalm 6:7 uses nearly identical language: 'my eye wastes away because of grief'—a direct parallel to this lament.
Psalm 38:1-10 expands on the same themes: plea for mercy, physical affliction, and overwhelming distress — a comprehensive parallel.
Psalm 88:3-5 describes being overwhelmed with troubles and counted among the dead — a parallel lament of extreme distress.
Psalm 32:3 describes bones wasting away from groaning, a parallel physical wasting but caused by unconfessed sin rather than grief.
Psalm 44:25 describes being brought down to the dust — a parallel image of physical lowliness and distress.
Psalm 6:3 expresses a troubled soul, matching the soul distress in Psalm 31:9, though without the physical wasting.
Psalm 22:14 intensifies the physical suffering imagery with bones out of joint and heart melting — a parallel lament of bodily distress.
Psalm 22:15 adds imagery of strength drying up and tongue sticking — another physical lament parallel to the bodily grief here.
Psalm 38:3 speaks of no soundness in flesh and bones due to sin, paralleling the bodily decay in Psalm 31:9 but with a different cause.
Psalm 56:1 opens with the same plea 'Be gracious to me' and describes enemy oppression, a parallel cry for mercy in distress.
Psalm 73:26 acknowledges that flesh and heart may fail — a parallel to the bodily grief here — then affirms God as strength.
Lamentations 5:17 says 'our eyes have grown dim' because of heart sickness—a close parallel to the eye-wasting grief here.
Job 33:19-22 vividly describes flesh wasting away and soul near the pit, directly paralleling the physical decay in Psalm 31:9.
Job 17:7 laments 'my eye has grown dim from vexation'—matching the eye-wasting grief expressed in this verse.
Lamentations 2:11 describes eyes spent with weeping and physical churning, a direct parallel to the eye wasting and bodily distress in Psalm 31:9.
Lamentations 3:4 says God made flesh and skin waste away and broke bones, directly mirroring the body wasting in Psalm 31:9.
Job 16:16 mentions weeping causing red face and darkness on eyelids, similar to the eye wasting from grief in Psalm 31:9.