With my tears — It well becomes the greatest spirits to be tender, and to relent under the tokens of God's displeasure. David who could face Goliath himself, melts into tears at the remembrance of sin, and under the apprehension of Divine wrath, and it is no diminution to his character.
I AM WEARY WITH MY GROANING - I am exhausted or worn out with it. That is, his sorrows were so deep, and his groaning was so constant, that his strength failed. He became “faint” under the weight of h...
Psalms 6 _ 1. The cry of repentance (Psalms 6:1)_ 2. In deep distress (Psalms 6:4) 3. Jehovah has heard (Psalms 6:8)...
VI. A RIGHTEOUS MAN'S PRAYER IN DISTRESS. (_a_) Notice (Psalms 6:1) the recognition of the fact that suffering is not always the proof of guilt and of God's wrath. Sometimes it is sent to prove, corre...
PSALMS 6 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE A Prayer for Deliverance from Sickness and Death. ANALYSIS Stanza I., Psalms 6:1-3, Prayer for Favour instead of Anger. Stanza II., Psalms 6:4-7, For Life instead of Deat...
_I AM WEARY WITH MY GROANING; ALL THE NIGHT MAKE I MY BED TO SWIM; I WATER MY COUCH WITH MY TEARS._ Another plea why God should have mercy on him-namely, his heartfelt contrition for his sins, which...
Psalms 1:41 _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ Words in boxes are from the Bible. The notes explain some of the words with a *star by them. Tap the * before a word to show an explanation. The translated Bible tex...
I WATER MY COUCH WITH TEARS. — Comp. _Odyssey,_ xvii. 102: “Say, to my mournful couch shall I ascend? The couch deserted now a length of years, The couch for ever watered with my tears.” — Pope’s _t...
_[Psalms 6:7]_ יָגַ֤עְתִּי ׀ בְּֽ אַנְחָתִ֗י אַשְׂחֶ֣ה בְ...
Psalms 6:1 THE theme and progress of thought in this psalm are very common, especially in those attributed to David. A soul compassed by enemies, whose hate has all but sapped the life out of it, "cat...
DELIVERANCE IN TROUBLE Psalms 6:1 This is the first of the _Penitential_ Psalms, the other six being Psalms 32:1; Psalms 38:1; Psalms 51
This is known as the first of the seven great penitential psalms. It is somewhat weak in its note of true penitence and in this respect is not to be compared with some which follow. It is rather a cry...
Hell. The hardened sinner will not praise thee, (St. Augustine) much less will the damned, who are confirmed in evil. (Berthier) --- Even those who are in "the grave," though just, cannot sound forth...
We need only to compare scripture with scripture, to discover that it is Jesus of whom the prophet here speaks. Psalms 22:1. But, Reader! do not hastily pass over this review. Did Jesus cry and groan,...
These forms of expression are hyperbolical, but it must not be imagined that David, after the manner of poets, exaggerates his sorrow; (89) but he declares truly and simply how severe and bitter it ha...
In Psalms 6 the remnant take another ground. They are oppressed, their soul vexed, the extremity of distress presses on their spirit, and their conscience not being cleared gives the fear that Jehovah...
I AM WEARY WITH MY GROANINGS,.... By reason of bodily illness, or indwelling sin, or the guilt of actual transgressions, or the hidings of God's face, or a sense of divine wrath, or the temptations of...
I am weary with my groaning; all the night make I my bed to swim; I water my couch with my tears. Ver. 6. _I am weary with my groaning_] I have laboured therein even unto lassitude. There must be som...
_All the night_ Or, _every night_, as the margin renders כל לילה, _cal lailah; make I my bed to swim_ With tears, an hyperbole used also elsewhere. It well becomes the greatest spirits to be tender, a...
I am weary with my groaning, utterly fatigued and worn out with the severity of his suffering; ALL THE NIGHT MAKE I MY BED TO SWIM, with streams of penitent tears; I WATER MY COUCH WITH MY TEARS, so t...
A PRAYER IN ANXIETY OVER SIN. To the chief musician on Neginoth, the stringed instruments of the Temple-orchestra, upon Sheminith, that is, on the octave, probably in bass, the voice suited to the na...
ALL THE NIGHT: Or, every night...
1-7 These verses speak the language of a heart truly humbled, of a broken and contrite spirit under great afflictions, sent to awaken conscience and mortify corruption. Sickness brought sin to his re...
ALL THE NIGHT; he mentions this time, by way of aggravation of his misery, because that season, which is to others by God's appointment a time of rest, was to him very sad and doleful, whether from hi...
Psalms 6:6 weary H3021 (H8804) groaning H585 night H3915 bed H4296 swim H7811 (H8686) drench H4529 ...
‘I am weary with my groaning. Every night I make my bed swim, I water my couch with my tears. My eye wastes away because of grief, It grows old because of all those who distress me. He goes on to...
Psalms 6:6 I. The feeling that he was suffering God's rebuke, smarting under God's correction, was at once a comfort and a grief to the Psalmist: a comfort when he remembered the loving wisdom that co...
Psalms 6 We may get the meaning and help of this Psalm by asking, How did David conduct himself in the time of sickness and trouble? I. He made his sorrow a question between himself and God. Set it...
Here the psalmist asks for a visit from God, for he is sick at heart, heavy and depressed. Be very thankful if that is not your case; but if it is, be very grateful that here is a prayer ready-made fo...
CONTENTS: David in weakness seeks God's help. CHARACTERS: God, David. CONCLUSION: Our way often lies through a vale of tears, but there is One whom we can trust in the greatest straits and difficult...
THE TITLE. _On Sheminith;_ directing this psalm to be sung with a harp of eight strings, 1 Chronicles 15:21, that the air and the music might the better accord with the sentiments of the song. It is a...
_O Lord, rebuke me not in Thine anger._ A SONG OF SORROW It is needless to look for a historical occasion of the Psalm; but to an oar that knows the tones of sorrow, or to a heart that has itself utt...
_I am weary with my groaning._ THE PENITENT’S SORROW The penitent here expresses the effects which his sorrow had upon him in its outward manifestations. His eye was consumed because of grief, and he...
PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 6:1. An individual lament from David. It describes a person whose hard circumstances have led him to see his sins and to repent. Thus, it is often considered one of the “pen...
INTRODUCTION “The first of the seven Penitential Psalms. It has been said that there is much of grief in it, but nothing of penitence. This, however, is an error. The tears shed by David over Absalom...
EXPOSITION This is the first of what have been called "the Penitential Psalms." It has been said that "there is much of grief in it, but nothing of penitence." The grief, however—such grief (see verse...
The sixth psalm is to the chief musician on this stringed instrument and upon the Sheminith. Now the Sheminith is a word that means the eighth, and so it was to be played in octaves. So on a stringed...
Jeremiah 14:17; Job 10:1; Job 16:20; Job 23:2; Job 7:3;...