O Lord, Deliver My Life
To the choirmaster: with stringed instruments; according to (A)The Sheminith.[a] A Psalm of David.
6 O Lord, (B)rebuke me not in your anger,
nor (C)discipline me in your wrath.
2 Be gracious to me, O Lord, for I am languishing;
(D)heal me, O Lord, (E)for my bones are troubled.
3 My (F)soul also is greatly troubled.
But you, O Lord—(G)how long?
4 Turn, O Lord, deliver my life;
save me for the sake of your steadfast love.
5 For in (H)death there is no remembrance of you;
in Sheol who will give you praise?
6 I am (I)weary with my (J)moaning;
every night I flood my bed with tears;
I drench my couch with my weeping.
7 My (K)eye wastes away because of grief;
it grows weak because of all my foes.
8 (L)Depart from me, all you (M)workers of evil,
for the Lord (N)has heard the sound of my weeping.
9 The Lord has heard my (O)plea;
the Lord accepts my prayer.
10 All my enemies shall be ashamed and greatly troubled;
they shall (P)turn back and be put to shame in a moment.
Footnotes
- Psalm 6:1 Probably a musical or liturgical term
Cross references
- Psalm 6:1 : 1 Chr. 15:21
- Psalm 6:1 : Ps. 38:1
- Psalm 6:1 : [Ps. 94:12; 118:18; Prov. 3:11, 12; Jer. 30:11; 46:28]; See Heb. 12:3-11
- Psalm 6:2 : Ps. 30:2; 41:4; 103:3
- Psalm 6:2 : See Ps. 31:10
- Psalm 6:3 : [John 12:27]
- Psalm 6:3 : Ps. 90:13
- Psalm 6:5 : Ps. 30:9; 88:10-12; 115:17; Isa. 38:18
- Psalm 6:6 : Ps. 69:3
- Psalm 6:6 : Ps. 38:9
- Psalm 6:7 : Ps. 31:9; 88:9; [Ps. 38:10; Job 17:7; Lam. 2:11; 5:17]
- Psalm 6:8 : Ps. 119:115; 139:19; Matt. 7:23; 25:41; Luke 13:27
- Psalm 6:8 : Ps. 94:4
- Psalm 6:8 : [Ps. 3:4]
- Psalm 6:9 : Ps. 55:1; 1 Kgs. 8:38
- Psalm 6:10 : Ps. 40:14; 56:9