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

I am tired with my crying; my throat is burning: my eyes are wasted with waiting for my God.

In the day of my trouble, my heart was turned to the Lord: my hand was stretched out in the night without resting; my soul would not be comforted.

My eyes are wasting away because of my trouble: Lord, my cry has gone up to you every day, my hands are stretched out to you.

So I have for my heritage months of pain to no purpose, and nights of weariness are given to me.

My soul is tired of life; I will let my sad thoughts go free in words; my soul will make a bitter outcry.

Even today my outcry is bitter; his hand is hard on my sorrow.

I water

Let my prayer come to your ears, O Lord, and give attention to my cry, make an answer to my weeping: for my time here is short before you, and in a little time I will be gone, like all my fathers.

My tears have been my food day and night, while they keep saying to me, Where is your God?

My friends make sport of me; to God my eyes are weeping,

And you are to say this word to them, Let my eyes be streaming with water night and day, and let it not be stopped; for the virgin daughter of my people is wounded with a great wound, with a very bitter blow.

She is sorrowing bitterly in the night, and her face is wet with weeping; among all her lovers she has no comforter: all her friends have been false to her, they have become her haters.

My eyes are wasted with weeping, the inmost parts of my body are deeply moved, my inner parts are drained out on the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people; because of the young children and babies at the breast who are falling without strength in the open squares of the town.

Rivers of water are running down from my eyes, for the destruction of the daughter of my people.

And went in and took her place at the back of him, near his feet, weeping, so that his feet were washed with the drops from her eyes, and with her hair she made them dry, and kissing his feet she put the perfume on them.