2 Have mercy on me, O Lord, for I am wasted away: make me well, for even my bones are troubled.
Come, let us go back to the Lord; for he has given us wounds and he will make us well; he has given blows and he will give help.
My life goes on in sorrow, and my years in weeping; my strength is almost gone because of my sin, and my bones are wasted away.
And Moses, crying to the Lord, said, Let my prayer come before you, O God, and make her well.
For my body is full of burning; all my flesh is unhealthy.
Make me well, O Lord, and I will be well; be my saviour, and I will be safe: for you are my hope.
As a father has pity on his children, so the Lord has pity on his worshippers. For he has knowledge of our feeble frame; he sees that we are only dust. As for man, his days are as grass: his beautiful growth is like the flower of the field. The wind goes over it and it is gone; and its place sees it no longer. But the mercy of the Lord is eternal for his worshippers, and their children's children will see his righteousness;
The Lord will be his support on his bed of pain: by you will all his grief be turned to strength. I said, Lord, have mercy on me; make my soul well, because my faith is in you.
Then Abraham made prayer to God, and God made Abimelech well again, and his wife and his women-servants, so that they had children.
When I kept my mouth shut, my bones were wasted, because of my crying all through the day.
I am flowing away like water, and all my bones are out of place: my heart is like wax, it has become soft in my body.
Have pity on me, have pity on me, O my friends! for the hand of God is on me.
For after his punishment he gives comfort, and after wounding, his hands make you well.
And he said, If with all your heart you will give attention to the voice of the Lord your God, and do what is right in his eyes, giving ear to his orders and keeping his laws, I will not put on you any of the diseases which I put on the Egyptians: for I am the Lord your life-giver.
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Commentary on Psalms 6 Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
PSALM 6
Ps 6:1-10. On Neginoth (See on Ps 4:1, title) upon Sheminith—the eighth—an instrument for the eighth key; or, more probably, the bass, as it is contrasted with Alamoth (the treble, Ps 46:1) in 1Ch 15:20, 21. In deep affliction the Psalmist appeals to God's mercy for relief from chastisement, which otherwise must destroy him, and thus disable him for God's service. Sure of a gracious answer, he triumphantly rebukes his foes.
1. He owns his ill desert in begging a relief from chastisement.
2. I am weak—as a culled plant (Isa 24:4).
my bones—the very frame.
are vexed—(Ps 2:5)—shaken with fear.
3. how long?—shall this be so (compare Ps 79:5).
but—or, "and."
thou—The sentence is incomplete as expressive of strong emotion.
4. Return—that is, to my relief; or, "turn," as now having His face averted.
for thy mercies' sake—to illustrate Thy mercy.
5. (Compare Ps 115:17, 18; Isa 38:18). There is no incredulity as to a future state. The contrast is between this scene of life, and the grave or Sheol, the unseen world of the dead.
give … thanks—or, "praise for mercies."
6. By a strong figure the abundance as well as intensity of grief is depicted.
7. consumed—or, "has failed," denoting general debility (Ps 13:3; 38:10).
waxeth old—or, "dim."
grief—mingled with indignation.
8, 9. Assured of God's hearing, he suddenly defies his enemies by an address indicating that he no longer fears them.
10. and knows they will be disappointed and in their turn (compare Ps 6:3) be terror-stricken or confounded.