Psalm 6:6

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Summary

Psalm 6:6

I am weary with my groaning; all the night make I my bed to swim; I water my couch with my tears.

I am

I water

Bible References

I am

Lord, all my desire is before thee; And my groaning is not hid from thee.

I am weary with my crying; my throat is dried: Mine eyes fail while I wait for my God.

In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord: My hand was stretched out in the night, and slacked not; My soul refused to be comforted.

Mine eye wasteth away by reason of affliction: I have called daily upon thee, O Jehovah; I have spread forth my hands unto thee.

For my days consume away like smoke, And my bones are burned as a firebrand.

Therefore is my spirit overwhelmed within me; My heart within me is desolate.

So am I made to possess months of misery, And wearisome nights are appointed to me.

My soul is weary of my life; I will give free course to my complaint; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

Even to-day is my complaint rebellious: My stroke is heavier than my groaning.

I water

Hear my prayer, O Jehovah, and give ear unto my cry; Hold not thy peace at my tears: For I am a stranger with thee, A sojourner, as all my fathers were.

My tears have been my food day and night, While they continually say unto me, Where is thy God?

My friends scoff at me: But mine eye poureth out tears unto God,

And thou shalt say this word unto them, Let mine eyes run down with tears night and day, and let them not cease; for the virgin daughter of my people is broken with a great breach, with a very grievous wound.

She weepeth sore in the night, and her tears are on her cheeks; Among all her lovers she hath none to comfort her: All her friends have dealt treacherously with her; they are become her enemies.

Mine eyes do fail with tears, my heart is troubled; My liver is poured upon the earth, because of the destruction of the daughter of my people, Because the young children and the sucklings swoon in the streets of the city.

Mine eye runneth down with streams of water, for the destruction of the daughter of my people.

and standing behind at his feet, weeping, she began to wet his feet with her tears, and wiped them with the hair of her head, and kissed his feet, and anointed them with the ointment.