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THE MESSAGE
Psalms 6:8
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Depart from me, all evildoers,for the Lord has heard the sound of my weeping.
Depart from me, all you workers of iniquity, For the LORD has heard the voice of my weeping.
Depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity; for the Lord hath heard the voice of my weeping.
Depart from me, all you workers of evil, for the Lord has heard the sound of my weeping.
Get away from me, all you who do evil, because the Lord has heard my crying.
Turn back from me, all you who behave wickedly, for the Lord has heard the sound of my weeping!
Depart from me, all you who do evil, For the LORD has heard the voice of my weeping.
Leave me, all you who practice injustice, For the LORD has heard the sound of my weeping.
Depart from me, all you workers of iniquity, For Yahweh has heard the voice of my weeping.
Away from mee all ye workers of iniquitie: for the Lorde hath heard the voyce of my weeping.
Depart from me, all you workers of iniquity,For Yahweh has heard the sound of my weeping.
Depart from me, all you workers of iniquity, for the LORD has heard my weeping.
You, Lord , heard my crying, and those hateful people had better leave me alone.
My vision is darkened with anger; it grows weak because of all my foes.
Depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity; for Jehovah hath heard the voice of my weeping.
Go away, you wicked people, because the Lord has heard my cries.
Depart from me, all you workers of iniquity; for the LORD has heard the voice of my weeping.
Keep away from me, you evil people! The Lord hears my weeping;
Depart from me, all workers of evil, for Yahweh has heard the sound of my weeping.
Depart from me, all workers of iniquity, for Jehovah has heard the voice of my weeping.
Awaye fro me all ye wicked doers, for the LORDE hath herde the voyce off my wepinge.
Depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity; For Jehovah hath heard the voice of my weeping.
Go from me, all you workers of evil; for the Lord has given ear to the voice of my weeping.
Mine eye is dimmed because of vexation; it waxeth old because of all mine adversaries.
Depart from me, all yee workers of iniquitie: for the Lord hath heard the voice of my weeping.
Away from me all workers of iniquitie: for God hath hearde the voyce of my weeping.
Depart from me, all ye that work iniquity; for the Lord has heard the voice of my weeping.
Depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity; for the LORD hath heard the voice of my weeping.
Alle ye that worchen wickidnesse, departe fro me; for the Lord hath herd the vois of my wepyng.
Depart from me, all you workers of iniquity; For Yahweh has heard the voice of my weeping.
Depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity; for the LORD hath heard the voice of my weeping.
Depart from me, all you workers of iniquity; For the LORD has heard the voice of my weeping.
Go away, all you who do evil, for the Lord has heard my weeping.
Go away from me, all you who sin. For the Lord has heard the sound of my crying.
Depart from me, all you workers of evil, for the Lord has heard the sound of my weeping.
Depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity, for Yahweh hath heard the voice of my weeping:
(6-9) Depart from em, all ye workers of iniquity: for the Lord hath heard the voice of my weeping.
Depart from me, all you workers of evil; for the LORD has heard the sound of my weeping.
Turn from me all ye workers of iniquity, For Jehovah heard the voice of my weeping,
Depart from me, all you who do iniquity, For the Lord has heard the voice of my weeping.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Depart: Psalms 119:115, Psalms 139:19, Matthew 7:23, Matthew 25:41, Luke 13:27
for: Psalms 3:4, Psalms 56:8, Psalms 116:8, Psalms 145:18, Isaiah 30:19, Isaiah 38:3, Isaiah 38:5, Hebrews 5:7
Reciprocal: Psalms 101:4 - know Psalms 102:5 - the voice Lamentations 3:56 - hast Hebrews 11:34 - out of
Cross-References
"I'm going to bring a flood on the Earth that will destroy everything alive under Heaven. Total destruction.
God sticks by all who love him, but it's all over for those who don't.
A good person basks in the delight of God , and he wants nothing to do with devious schemers.
This is the way God put it: "They found grace out in the desert, these people who survived the killing. Israel, out looking for a place to rest, met God out looking for them!" God told them, "I've never quit loving you and never will. Expect love, love, and more love! And so now I'll start over with you and build you up again, dear virgin Israel. You'll resume your singing, grabbing tambourines and joining the dance. You'll go back to your old work of planting vineyards on the Samaritan hillsides, And sit back and enjoy the fruit— oh, how you'll enjoy those harvests! The time's coming when watchmen will call out from the hilltops of Ephraim: ‘On your feet! Let's go to Zion, go to meet our God !'"
If you're a hard worker and do a good job, you deserve your pay; we don't call your wages a gift. But if you see that the job is too big for you, that it's something only God can do, and you trust him to do it—you could never do it for yourself no matter how hard and long you worked—well, that trusting-him-to-do-it is what gets you set right with God, by God. Sheer gift.
The Loyal Minority Does this mean, then, that God is so fed up with Israel that he'll have nothing more to do with them? Hardly. Remember that I, the one writing these things, am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham out of the tribe of Benjamin. You can't get much more Semitic than that! So we're not talking about repudiation. God has been too long involved with Israel, has too much invested, to simply wash his hands of them. Do you remember that time Elijah was agonizing over this same Israel and cried out in prayer? God, they murdered your prophets, They trashed your altars; I'm the only one left and now they're after me! And do you remember God's answer? I still have seven thousand who haven't quit, Seven thousand who are loyal to the finish. It's the same today. There's a fiercely loyal minority still—not many, perhaps, but probably more than you think. They're holding on, not because of what they think they're going to get out of it, but because they're convinced of God's grace and purpose in choosing them. If they were only thinking of their own immediate self-interest, they would have left long ago.
But because God was so gracious, so very generous, here I am. And I'm not about to let his grace go to waste. Haven't I worked hard trying to do more than any of the others? Even then, my work didn't amount to all that much. It was God giving me the work to do, God giving me the energy to do it. So whether you heard it from me or from those others, it's all the same: We spoke God's truth and you entrusted your lives.
God's readiness to give and forgive is now public. Salvation's available for everyone! We're being shown how to turn our backs on a godless, indulgent life, and how to take on a God-filled, God-honoring life. This new life is starting right now, and is whetting our appetites for the glorious day when our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ, appears. He offered himself as a sacrifice to free us from a dark, rebellious life into this good, pure life, making us a people he can be proud of, energetic in goodness.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity,.... The psalmist being fully assured that God had heard his prayer, that he should recover from his disorder, or be delivered out of his calamities, whether corporeal or spiritual, has on a sudden a spring of joy, faith, and comfort; as sometimes there is a quick transition from comfortable to uncomfortable frames; see Psalms 30:7; so on the contrary, there is as quick a passage from uncomfortable to comfortable ones; see Lamentations 3:18; who may be called "workers of iniquity"
Lamentations 3:18- :; and these were either his open enemies, as Saul and his men, or Absalom and the conspirators with him, whom he bids to cease from following and pursuing after him; or his secret ones, hypocritical courtiers, that were about him, who were wishing and hoping for his death. It is the lot of God's people to be among the workers of iniquity; Lot was among the Sodomites, David was in Meshech and in the tents of Kedar, Isaiah was among men of unclean lips; Christ's lily is among thorns, and his sheep among goats; and though in some respects a civil conversation with wicked men cannot be avoided, for then good men must needs go out of the world; yet as little company should be kept with them as can be, and no fellowship should be had with them in sinful practices, nor in superstitious worship; and though there will not be a full and final separation from them in the present state of things, there will be hereafter, when these very words will be used by David's antitype, the Lord Jesus Christ; not only to profane sinners, but to carnal professors of religion, who have herded themselves with the people of God, Matthew 25:41. The reason why the psalmist took heart and courage, and ordered his wicked persecutors, or sycophants, to be gone from him, was his assurance of being heard by the Lord;
for the Lord hath heard the voice of my weeping; referring to what is said Psalms 6:6; he had not only lifted up his voice in prayer, but he had wept and made supplication, as Jacob did, Hosea 12:4; sometimes God brings his people to the throne of grace weeping, and with supplications leads them, Jeremiah 31:9; and then hears their cry and answers them.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity - Referring, by the “workers of iniquity,” to his enemies, as if they now surrounded him, and calling on them “now” to leave him, since God had heard his prayer, and they could not be successful in their purposes. This is an indirect but most emphatic way of saying that God had heard his prayer; and the sentiment in this verse is strongly in contrast with the desponding state of feeling - the deep and dreadful sorrow - indicated in the previous verses. Light broke in suddenly upon him; his prayer had come up before God, and, in some way, he was assured that it would be answered. Already he sees his enemies scattered, and his own cause triumphant; and in this exulting feeling he addresses his foes, and commands them to leave him. This is, therefore, a remarkable and striking proof that prayer may be heard, even while we are speaking to God (compare Isaiah 65:24); that the assurance may be conveyed suddenly to the mind that God will hear and answer the prayer which is addressed to him; and also a beautiful illustration of the effect of this on a mind overwhelmed with trouble and sorrow, in giving it calmness and peace.
For the Lord hath heard - That is, my prayer has ascended before him, and I am certain that he regards it favorably, and will answer it. “In what way” he had this assurance he does not inform us. As he was an inspired man, we may suppose that the assurance was given to him directly by the Holy Spirit. “We” are not to expect the “same kind” of assurance that our prayers are heard; we are to look for no revelation to that effect; but there may be “as real” an intimation to the mind that our prayers are heard - as real “evidence” - as in this case. There may be a firm confidence of the mind that God is a hearer of prayer now coming to the soul with the freshness of a new conviction of that truth; and there may be, in trouble and sorrow, a sweet calmness and peace breathed through the soul - an assurance that all will be right and well, as if the prayer were heard, and such as there would be if we were assured by direct revelation that it is heard. The Spirit of God can produce this in our case as really as he did in the case of David.
The voice of my weeping - The voice of prayer that accompanied my weeping, or the voice of the weeping itself - the cry of anguish and distress which was in itself of the nature of prayer.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Psalms 6:8. Depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity — It seems that while he was suffering grievously through the disease, his enemies had insulted and mocked him;-upbraided him with his transgressions, not to increase his penitence, but to cast him into despair.
The Lord hath heard the voice of my weeping. — The Lord pitifully beheld the sorrows of his heart, and mercifully forgave his sins.
