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Psalms 6:6
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I am weary from my groaning;with my tears I dampen my bedand drench my couch every night.
I am weary with my groaning; Every night I flood my bed; I drench my couch with my tears.
I am weary with my groaning; all the night make I my bed to swim; I water my couch with my tears.
I am weary with my moaning; every night I flood my bed with tears; I drench my couch with my weeping.
I am tired of crying to you. Every night my bed is wet with tears; my bed is soaked from my crying.
I am exhausted as I groan; all night long I drench my bed in tears; my tears saturate the cushion beneath me.
I am weary with my groaning; Every night I soak my bed with tears, I drench my couch with my weeping.
I am weary with my sighing; Every night I make my bed swim, I flood my couch with my tears.
I am weary with my groaning; Every night I flood my bed; I drench my couch with my tears.
I fainted in my mourning: I cause my bed euery night to swimme, and water my couch with my teares.
I am weary with my sighing;Every night I make my bed swim,I flood my couch with my tears.
I am weary from groaning; all night I flood my bed with weeping and drench my couch with tears.
My groaning has worn me out. At night my bed and pillow are soaked with tears.
I am wearied with my groaning; all the night make I my bed to swim; I dissolve my couch with my tears.
Lord, I am so weak. I cried to you all night. My pillow is soaked; my bed is dripping wet from my tears.
I am weary with my groaning; and every night I water my bed and wash my mattress with my tears.
I am worn out with grief; every night my bed is damp from my weeping; my pillow is soaked with tears.
I am weary with my groaning; I flood my bed every night. With my tears I drench my couch.
I am weary in my groaning; I shall make my bed swim in all the night; I melt my couch with my tears.
I am weery of gronynge: Euery night wasshe I my bedde, & water my couche with my teares.
I am weary with my groaning; Every night make I my bed to swim; I water my couch with my tears.
The voice of my sorrow is a weariness to me; all the night I make my bed wet with weeping; it is watered by the drops flowing from my eyes.
For in death there is no remembrance of Thee; in the nether-world who will give Thee thanks?
I am weary with my groning, all the night make I my bed to swim: I water my couch with my teares.
I am weerie of my groning: I washe my bed euery nyght, and I water my coutche with my teares.
I am wearied with my groaning; I shall wash my bed every night; I shall water my couch with tears.
I am weary with my groaning; every night make I my bed to swim; I water my couch with my tears.
I traueilide in my weilyng, Y schal waische my bed bi ech nyyt; Y schal moiste, `ether make weet, my bedstre with my teeris.
I am weary with my groaning; Every night I make my bed to swim; I water my couch with my tears.
I am weary with my groaning; all the night I make my bed to swim; I water my couch with my tears.
I am weary with my groaning; All night I make my bed swim; I drench my couch with my tears.
I am worn out from sobbing. All night I flood my bed with weeping, drenching it with my tears.
I am tired of crying inside myself. All night long my pillow is wet with tears. I flood my bed with them.
I am weary with my moaning; every night I flood my bed with tears; I drench my couch with my weeping.
I am weary with my sighing, I flood, through the whole night, my couch, - With my tears, I cause, my bed, to dissolve:
(6-7) I have laboured in my groanings, every night I will wash my bed: I will water my couch with my tears.
I am weary with my moaning; every night I flood my bed with tears; I drench my couch with my weeping.
I have been weary with my sighing, I meditate through all the night [on] my bed, With my tear my couch I waste.
I'm tired of all this—so tired. My bed has been floating forty days and nights On the flood of my tears. My mattress is soaked, soggy with tears. The sockets of my eyes are black holes; nearly blind, I squint and grope.
I am weary with my sighing; Every night I make my bed swim, I dissolve my couch with my tears.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
I am: Psalms 38:9, Psalms 69:3, Psalms 77:2-9, Psalms 88:9, Psalms 102:3-5, Psalms 143:4-7, Job 7:3, Job 10:1, Job 23:2
all the: or, every
I water: Psalms 39:12, Psalms 42:3, Job 16:20, Jeremiah 14:17, Lamentations 1:2, Lamentations 1:16, Lamentations 2:11, Lamentations 2:18, Lamentations 2:19, Lamentations 3:48-50, Luke 7:38
Reciprocal: 1 Samuel 7:6 - drew water 2 Kings 20:3 - wept sore Job 7:4 - When Job 7:13 - My bed Job 16:7 - he hath Job 16:16 - face Psalms 30:5 - weeping Psalms 38:6 - mourning Psalms 38:17 - sorrow Psalms 77:4 - holdest Psalms 102:5 - the voice Ecclesiastes 2:23 - his heart Song of Solomon 3:1 - night Luke 6:21 - ye that weep Romans 7:24 - wretched
Cross-References
But Noach found grace in the sight of Adonai . Haftarah B'resheet: Yesha‘yahu (Isaiah) 42:5–43:10 (A); 42:5–21 (S) B'rit Hadashah suggested readings for Parashah B'resheet: Mattityahu (Matthew) 1:1–17; 19:3–9; Mark 10:1–12; Luke 3:23–38; Yochanan (John) 1:1–18; 1 Corinthians 6:15–20; 15:35–58; Romans 5:12–21; Ephesians 5:21–32; Colossians 1:14–17; 1 Timothy 2:11–15; Messianic Jews (Hebrews) 1:1–3; 3:7–4:11; 11:1–7; 2 Kefa (2 Peter) 3:3–14; Revelation 21:1–5; 22:1–5 Here is the history of Noach. In his generation, Noach was a man righteous and wholehearted; Noach walked with God. Noach fathered three sons, Shem, Ham and Yefet. The earth was corrupt before God, the earth was filled with violence. God saw the earth, and, yes, it was corrupt; for all living beings had corrupted their ways on the earth. God said to Noach, "The end of all living beings has come before me, for because of them the earth is filled with violence. I will destroy them along with the earth. Make yourself an ark of gofer-wood; you are to make the ark with rooms and cover it with pitch both outside and inside. Here is how you are to build it: the length of the ark is to be 450 feet, its width seventy-five feet and its height forty-five feet. You are to make an opening for daylight in the ark eighteen inches below its roof. Put a door in its side; and build it with lower, second and third decks. "Then I myself will bring the flood of water over the earth to destroy from under heaven every living thing that breathes; everything on earth will be destroyed. But I will establish my covenant with you; you will come into the ark, you, your sons, your wife and your sons' wives with you. "From everything living, from each kind of living being, you are to bring two into the ark, to keep them alive with you; they are to be male and female. Of each kind of bird, each kind of livestock, and each kind of animal creeping on the ground, two are to come to you, so that they can be kept alive. Also take from all the kinds of food that are eaten, and collect it for yourself; it is to be food for you and for them." This is what Noach did; he did all that God ordered him to do.
Noach fathered three sons, Shem, Ham and Yefet.
"Then I myself will bring the flood of water over the earth to destroy from under heaven every living thing that breathes; everything on earth will be destroyed.
But I will establish my covenant with you; you will come into the ark, you, your sons, your wife and your sons' wives with you.
Adonai then changed his mind about the disaster he had planned for his people.
"God is not a human who lies or a mortal who changes his mind. When he says something, he will do it; when he makes a promise, he will fulfill it.
"Therefore you are to be careful to do as Adonai your God has ordered you; you are not to deviate either to the right or the left.
(v) If they were wise they could figure it out and understand their destiny.
"Yes, Adonai will judge his people, taking pity on his servants, when he sees that their strength is gone, that no one is left, slave or free.
"I regret setting up Sha'ul as king, because he has turned back from following me and hasn't obeyed my orders." This made Sh'mu'el very sad, so that he cried to Adonai all night.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
I am weary with my groanings,.... By reason of bodily illness, or indwelling sin, or the guilt of actual transgressions, or the hidings of God's face, or a sense of divine wrath, or the temptations of Satan, or afflictions and crosses of various kinds, or fears of death, or even earnest desires after heaven and eternal happiness, or the low estate of Zion; each of which at times occasion groaning in the saints, as in the psalmist, and is the common experience of all good men. The psalmist being weary of his disease, or of sin, groaned till he was weary with his groaning; inward groaning affects the body, wastes the animal spirits, consumes the flesh, and induces weariness and faintness; see Psalms 102:5;
all the night make I my bed to swim: I water my couch with my tears; these are hyperbolical phrases e, expressing more than is intended, and are not to be literally understood; for such a quantity of tears a man could never shed, as to water his couch and make his bed to swim with them, but they are used to denote the multitude of them, and the excessiveness of his sorrow; see Psalms 119:136; and these tears were shed, not to atone and satisfy for sin, for nothing but the blood and sacrifice of Christ can do that; but to express the truth and reality, as well as the abundance of his grief; and this was done "all the night long"; see Job 7:3; when he had leisure to think and reflect upon his sins and transgressions, and when he was clear of all company, and no one could hear or see him, nor interrupt him in the vent of his sorrow, and when his disease might be heavier upon him, as some diseases increase in the night season: this may also be mystically understood, of a night of spiritual darkness and desertion, when a soul is without the discoveries of the love of God, and the influences of his grace; and has lost sight of God and Christ, and interest in them, and does not enjoy communion with them; and throughout this night season weeping endures, though joy comes in the morning. And it may be applicable to David's antitype, to the doleful night in which he was betrayed, when it was the hour and power of darkness, and when he had no other couch or bed but the ground itself; which was watered, not only with his tears, but with his sweat and blood, his sweat being as it were great drops of blood falling to the ground; so he is often said to sigh and groan in spirit, Mark 7:34.
e See the latter in Homer. Odyss 17. v. 110. Odyss. 19. prope finem.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
I am weary with my groaning - I am exhausted or worn out with it. That is, his sorrows were so deep, and his groaning was so constant, that his strength failed. He became “faint” under the weight of his sorrows. All persons in trouble have experienced this effect - the sense of weariness or exhaustion from sorrow.
All the night make I my bed to swim - That is, he wept so much that his bed seemed to be immersed in tears. This is, of course, hyperbolical language, expressing in a strong and emphatic manner the depth of his sorrows.
I water my couch with my tears - The word here rendered “water” means to melt, to flow down; then, in the Hiphil, to cause to flow, to dissolve. The sense here is, that he caused his couch to “flow” or “overflow” with his tears. We would say, he “flooded” his bed with tears. This verse discloses the true source of the trials referred to in the psalm. It was some deep mental anguish - some source of grief - that exhausted his strength, and that laid him on a bed of languishing. No circumstances in the life of David better accord with this than the troubles which existed on account of the ungrateful and rebellious conduct of Absalom, and it is most natural to refer it to this. Many a parent since the time of David has experienced “all,” both mental and bodily, which is here described as a consequence of the ingratitude and evil conduct of his children. The tragedy of “Lear” turns entirely on this.
