Psalms 6:4 - Exposition

Return, O Lord. God seemed to have withdrawn himself, to have, forsaken the mourner, and gone far away (comp. Psalms 22:1 ). Hence the cry, "Return" (comp. Psalms 80:14 ; Psalms 90:13 ). Nothing is so hard to endure as the feeling of being deserted by God. Deliver my soul . "The psalmist feels himself so wretched in soul and body, that he believes himself to be near death" (Hengstenberg). His prayer here is, primarily, for deliverance from this impending danger, as appears clearly from the following verse, Save me for thy mercys' sake . Either a repetition of the preceding prayer in other words, or an enlargement of it so as to include salvation of every kind.