Psalm 6:6-7

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 6:6-7

‘I am weary with my groaning. Every night I make my bed swim, I water my couch with my tears. My eye wastes away because of grief, It grows old because of all those who distress me. He goes on to describe his present state, groaning both because of his illness and because of his conscience stricken state, so much so that his bed is soaked with tears. Indeed it has affected his eyes, which reveal what he is going through, made worse by his adversaries who mock him in his state. The state of a... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 6:1-10

VI. A Righteous Man’ s Prayer in Distress.— ( a) Notice ( Psalms 6:1-Judges :) the recognition of the fact that suffering is not always the proof of guilt and of God’ s wrath. Sometimes it is sent to prove, correct, and purify the righteous. So here 1, Psalms 66:8-2 Kings :, Job 6:17, and especially Proverbs 3:11 f.*( b) Reward or penalty, if they come at all, must, according to the general teaching of the Psalter, come in this life; the life beyond the grave is scarcely worthy of the name.... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Psalms 6:6

All the night; he mentions this time, by way of aggravation of his misery, because that season, which is to others by God’s appointment a time of rest, was to him very sad and doleful, whether from his disease, which then came upon him more strongly, as it is usual; or from the opportunity which the solitude or silence of the night gave him to think of his own sins, or his enemies’ perfidiousness and malice, or God’s displeasure, or his future estate. Make I my bed to swim, to wit, with tears.... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Psalms 6:7

Consumed; or, grown dim or dull, through plenty of salt tears which I shed; or through the decay of my spirits. Because of grief, i.e. my grief arising from mine enemies, as the next clause interprets it, and from the consideration of their multitude, and rage, and falseness. read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Psalms 6:1-10

INTRODUCTION“The first of the seven Penitential Psalms. It has been said that there is much of grief in it, but nothing of penitence. This, however, is an error. The tears shed by David over Absalom (2 Samuel 18:33) came, we are sure, from the fountain of a penitent heart. He knew well that Absalom’s rebellion was permitted by God as a penal consequence of his sin.”—Kay.CHASTISEMENT(The whole Psalm.)Observe:I. The twofold character of the Divine chastisements.Psalms 6:1. “Only in love, not in... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Psalms 6:1-10

Psalms 6:0 We may get the meaning and help of this Psalm by asking, How did David conduct himself in the time of sickness and trouble? I. He made his sorrow a question between himself and God. Set it down as a stern fact that there is a moral secret under the whole figure and movement of human life. Wherever you find disorder you find sin. II. Proceeding from this point, David seeks to make things right between himself and God. In all trouble go first in self-reproach to God, and get at the... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Psalms 6:6

Psalms 6:6 I. The feeling that he was suffering God's rebuke, smarting under God's correction, was at once a comfort and a grief to the Psalmist: a comfort when he remembered the loving wisdom that corrected him; a grief when he called to mind the sinful ingratitude that needed correction. It is by the depth and reality, yea the passion and abandon, with which he utters the profoundest feelings of the pious heart, that David has moved so mightily the soul and spirit of the world. When fault is... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Psalms 6:1-10

Psalms 6:1-10 The sixth psalm is to the chief musician on this stringed instrument and upon the Sheminith. Now the Sheminith is a word that means the eighth, and so it was to be played in octaves. So on a stringed instrument played in octaves. So David, no doubt, made these notations on the psalms as he wrote them, and wrote it as a hymnal for the people.O LORD, rebuke me not in thine anger, neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure ( Psalms 6:1 ).Now here is where David is, I am certain,... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Psalms 6:1-10

The Title. On Sheminith; directing this psalm to be sung with a harp of eight strings, 1 Chronicles 15:21, that the air and the music might the better accord with the sentiments of the song. It is a loss irreparable, both to jews and christians, that we so rarely know the particular occasion on which the psalms were composed. The one before us was evidently written while David was pursued by his enemies, and while his soul was so vexed as to occasion bodily affliction. Psalms 6:4-5 . Oh... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Psalms 6:1-10

Psalms 6:1-10O Lord, rebuke me not in Thine anger.A song of sorrowIt is needless to look for a historical occasion of the Psalm; but to an oar that knows the tones of sorrow, or to a heart that has itself uttered them, the supposition that in these pathetic cries we hear only a representative Israelite bewailing the national ruin sounds singularly artificial. If ever the throb of personal anguish found tears and a Voice, it does so in this Psalm. Whoever wrote it wrote with his blood. There are... read more

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