1 For the music director. To be accompanied by stringed instruments, according to the sheminith. A psalm of David. Lord, please don't condemn me because you're angry with me; please don't punish me because you're angry with me! 2 Have mercy on me, Lord, for I am weak; heal me, Lord, for I am sick to the bone. 3 I'm shaking all over in fear. How long will it be, Lord, before you do something? 4 Turn, Lord, and rescue me! Save me because of your trustworthy love! 5 For no one remembers you when they're dead. Who is able to praise you from the grave? 6 My groaning has exhausted me. Every night I soak my bed with my crying; I drench my couch with my tears. 7 With all my crying I can hardly see; my eyes grow weak because of the trouble my enemies cause me. 8 Leave me alone, all you people who do evil, for the Lord has heard me crying! 9 The Lord has heard me calling out for help; the Lord answers my prayer. 10 All who hate me will be shamefully defeated and terrified; they will run away in disgrace.
Psalm 6 Free Bible Version
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Notes on this text (1)
- Greek and Latin Bibles number most Psalms one lower than Hebrew and English Bibles.
Cross references (10)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Psalm 118:18; Psalm 38:1; Jeremiah 10:24; Jeremiah 46:28; 1 Corinthians 11:31–32
- 2 Hosea 6:1; Psalm 30:2; Psalm 31:10; Jeremiah 17:14; Deuteronomy 32:39
- 3 Psalm 90:13; John 12:27; Psalm 42:11; Psalm 77:2–3; Psalm 13:1–2
- 4 Daniel 9:18; Psalm 17:13; Psalm 116:4; Ephesians 2:7–8; Psalm 121:7
- 5 Psalm 88:10–12; Psalm 115:17; Ecclesiastes 9:10; Psalm 30:9; Isaiah 38:18–19
- 6 Psalm 69:3; Psalm 42:3; Psalm 38:9; Psalm 77:2–9; Job 7:3
- 7 Job 17:7; Psalm 38:10; Psalm 88:9; Lamentations 5:17; Psalm 31:9–10
- 8 Luke 13:27; Psalm 145:18; Psalm 119:115; Psalm 3:4; Matthew 7:23
- 9 Psalm 66:19–20; Psalm 120:1; Psalm 138:3; 2 Corinthians 12:8–10; Psalm 118:5
- 10 Malachi 3:18; Psalm 86:17; Jeremiah 20:11; Proverbs 29:1; Isaiah 26:11
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What the Fathers said
Passages from the Church Fathers that expound or quote this chapter, verbatim from the public-domain Schaff edition (19th-century English translations).
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“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).
"Of the eighth," seems here obscure. For the rest of this title is more clear. Now it has seemed to some to intimate the day of judgment, that is, the time of the coming of our Lord, when He will come to judge the quick and dead.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 8 (1888)
And, not indeed in these words, yet to this effect, spake I much unto Thee,--"But Thou, O Lord, how long?" "How long, Lord?
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 1 (1886)
But Thou, O Lord my God, give ear, behold and see, and have mercy upon me, and heal me, --Thou, in whose sight I am become a puzzle to myself; and "this is my infirmity." Chapter XXXIV — Of the Very Dangerous Allurements of the Eyes; On Account of Beauty of…
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 1 (1886)
So that verse, "For in death there is no remembrance of thee." For until the resurrection men are justly said to be in death; as every one is said to be in sleep till he awakes.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 2 (1887)