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Psalms 6:6-8

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6:6 I am exhausted as I groan;

all night long I drench my bed in tears; 1 

my tears saturate the cushion beneath me. 2 

6:7 My eyes 3  grow dim 4  from suffering;

they grow weak 5  because of all my enemies. 6 

6:8 Turn back from me, all you who behave wickedly, 7 

for the Lord has heard the sound of my weeping! 8 

1 tn Heb “I cause to swim through all the night my bed.”

2 tn Heb “with my tears my bed I flood/melt.”

3 tn The Hebrew text has the singular “eye” here.

4 tn Or perhaps, “are swollen.”

5 tn Or perhaps, “grow old.”

6 sn In his weakened condition the psalmist is vulnerable to the taunts and threats of his enemies.

7 tn Heb “all [you] workers of wickedness.” See Ps 5:5.

8 sn The Lord has heard. The psalmist’s mood abruptly changes because the Lord responded positively to the lament and petition of vv. 1-7 and promised him deliverance.



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