Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
Psalms 6:3
Verse Psalms 6:3. How long?] How long shall I continue under this malady? How long will it be before thou speak peace to my troubled heart?
Verse Psalms 6:3. How long?] How long shall I continue under this malady? How long will it be before thou speak peace to my troubled heart?
MY SOUL IS ALSO SORE VEXED - The word “soul” here is used in the sense in which it is commonly with us, as denoting the mind. The idea is, that his sorrows were not merely those of the bodily frame. T...
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...
MY SOUL. I. Hebrew. _nephesh._ App-13. SORE VEXED. troubled. Same as John 12:27. Compare Psalms 42:5; Psalms 42:6. HOW LONG?. until when? Figure of speech _Erotesis;_ and, before and after these word...
BUT THOU, O LORD, HOW LONG?— There seems to be an ellipsis here, which is thus supplied by the Chaldee paraphrast; _How long wilt thou defer to give me some refreshment?_ In the version of our liturgy...
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...
_MY SOUL IS ALSO SORE VEXED: BUT THOU, O LORD, HOW LONG?_ My soul is ... sore vexed - as well as my body, of which the "bones are vexed" (Psalms 6:2). Compare the transfer of the "sore vexed" to his...
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...
BUT THOU, O LORD, HOW LONG? — Comp. Psalms 90:13. This is “belief in unbelief.” _Domine quousque_ was Calvin’s motto. The most intense grief, it was said, could never extract from him another word. In...
_[Psalms 6:4]_ וְ֭ נַפְשִׁי נִבְהֲלָ֣ה מְאֹ֑ד _וְ_†_אַתָּ֥ה_
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...
(c) My soul is also sore vexed: but thou, O LORD, how long? (c) His conscience is also touched with the fear of God's judgment....
_Troubled, with grief. (Worthington) --- I am sinking under my illness: my virtue is lost. (Calmet) --- The whole human race is this sick man, requiring the aid of Jesus Christ. (St. Augustine) --- Th...
The Reader will not fail to discover Christ in this supplication, when he recollects how Jesus complained in the garden, when he said, My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death. Matthew 26:38..R...
3._And thou, O Jehovah, how long? _This elliptical form of expression serves to express more strongly the vehemence of grief, which not only holds the minds of men bound up, but likewise their tongues...
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...
MY SOUL IS ALSO SORE VEXED,.... Or "exceedingly troubled" c, and even frightened and thrown into a consternation with indwelling sin, and on account of actual transgressions, and by reason of the hidi...
My soul is also sore vexed: but thou, O LORD, how long? Ver. 3. _My soul is also sore vexed_] This was worse than all the rest. A light load to a raw shoulder is very grievous; a little water in a le...
_My soul is sore vexed_ Partly by sympathy with my body, and partly with the burden of my sins, and the sense of thine anger, and my own danger and misery. _O Lord, how long?_ Wilt thou suffer me to l...
My soul is also sore vexed, troubled, filled with the greatest terror; BUT THOU, O LORD, HOW LONG? When could he expect the relief for which he was so eagerly longing? He now follows up his question w...
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...
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...
MY SOUL IS ALSO SORE VEXED; partly by sympathy with my body; and partly with the burden of my sins, and the sense of thine anger, and my own danger and misery. HOW LONG wilt thou suffer me to lie and...
Psalms 6:3 soul H5315 greatly H3966 troubled H926 (H8738) LORD H3068 My - Psalms 22:14,...
‘O YHWH do not rebuke me in your anger, Nor chasten me in your hot displeasure, Have mercy on me (show your graciousness towards me), O YHWH for I am withered away, O YHWH heal me, for my bones are...
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...
Psalms 6:3 I. Consider that the principle on which we are less ready than of old to rush to confession under natural national calamities of an ordinary type is a just and noble one, and is a sign of v...
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...
_My soul is sore vexed._ YOKE FELLOWS IN SIN, YOKE FELLOWS IN PUNISHMENT Yoke fellows in sin are yoke fellows in pain; the soul is punished for informing, the body for performing, and as both the in...
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...
Luke 18:7; Matthew 26:38; Proverbs 18:14; Psalms 13:1; Psalms 13:2;...