the Week of Proper 11 / Ordinary 16
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Psalms 6:7
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My eyes are swollen from grief;they grow old because of all my enemies.
My eye wastes away because of grief; It grows old because of all my adversaries.
Mine eye is consumed because of grief; it waxeth old because of all mine enemies.
My eye wastes away because of grief; it grows weak because of all my foes.
My eyes are weak from so much crying; they are weak from crying about my enemies.
My eye grows dim with grief; It grows old because of all my enemies.
My eye has wasted away with grief; It has grown old because of all my enemies.
My eye wastes away because of grief; It grows old because of all my adversaries.
Mine eye is dimmed for despight, and sunke in because of all mine enemies.
My eye has wasted away with grief;It has become old because of all my adversaries.
My eyes fail from grief; they grow dim because of all my foes.
Sorrow has made my eyes dim, and my sight has failed because of my enemies.
I am worn out with groaning; all night I drench my bed with tears, flooding my couch till it swims.
Mine eye wasteth away through grief; it hath grown old because of all mine oppressors.
My enemies have caused me such sorrow that my eyes are worn out from crying.
Mine eye is weakened because of anger; and I am troubled by all my enemies.
I can hardly see; my eyes are so swollen from the weeping caused by my enemies.
My eye wastes away because of vexation; it grows old because of all my oppressors.
My eye is dim because of grief; it wastes away because of all those distressing me.
My coutenauce is chaunged for very inwarde grefe, I cosume awaye, I haue so many enemies.
Mine eye wasteth away because of grief; It waxeth old because of all mine adversaries.
My eyes are wasting away with trouble; they are becoming old because of all those who are against me.
I am weary with my groaning; every night make I my bed to swim; I melt away my couch with my tears.
Mine eie is consumed because of griefe; it waxeth olde because of all mine enemies.
Mine eye is almost put out through griefe: and worne out through all mine enemies.
Mine eye is troubled because of my wrath; I am worn out because of all my enemies.
Mine eye wasteth away because of grief; it waxeth old because of all mine adversaries.
Myn iye is disturblid of woodnesse; Y waxe eld among alle myn enemyes.
My eye wastes away because of grief; It waxes old because of all my adversaries.
My eye is consumed because of grief; it groweth old because of all my enemies.
My eye wastes away because of grief; It grows old because of all my enemies.
My vision is blurred by grief; my eyes are worn out because of all my enemies.
My eye has grown weak with sorrow. It has grown old because of all who hate me.
My eyes waste away because of grief; they grow weak because of all my foes.
My face, is all sunken with sorrow, - it hath aged, because of all mine adversaries.
(6-8) My eye is troubled through indignation: I have grown old amongst all my enemies.
My eye wastes away because of grief, it grows weak because of all my foes.
Old from provocation is mine eye, It is old because of all mine adversaries,
My eye has wasted away with grief; It has become old because of all my adversaries.
Contextual Overview
For the music director, to be accompanied by stringed instruments, according to the sheminith style; a psalm of David.
Lord , do not rebuke me in your anger! Do not discipline me in your raging fury! 2 Have mercy on me, Lord , for I am frail! Heal me, Lord , for my bones are shaking! 3 I am absolutely terrified, and you, Lord —how long will this continue? 4 Relent, Lord , rescue me! Deliver me because of your faithfulness! 5 For no one remembers you in the realm of death, In Sheol who gives you thanks? 6 I am exhausted as I groan; all night long I drench my bed in tears; my tears saturate the cushion beneath me. 7 My eyes grow dim from suffering; they grow weak because of all my enemies.Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Mine: Psalms 31:9, Psalms 31:10, Psalms 38:10, Psalms 88:9, Job 17:7, Lamentations 5:17
it waxeth: Psalms 32:3
Reciprocal: Job 16:7 - he hath Job 16:16 - face Ecclesiastes 2:23 - his heart Lamentations 2:11 - eyes
Cross-References
When humankind began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born to them,
the sons of God saw that the daughters of humankind were beautiful. Thus they took wives for themselves from any they chose.
So the Lord said, "My spirit will not remain in humankind indefinitely, since they are mortal. They will remain for 120 more years."
The Nephilim were on the earth in those days (and also after this) when the sons of God were having sexual relations with the daughters of humankind, who gave birth to their children. They were the mighty heroes of old, the famous men.
Of the birds after their kinds, and of the cattle after their kinds, and of every creeping thing of the ground after its kind, two of every kind will come to you so you can keep them alive.
And Noah did all that God commanded him—he did indeed.
But evil men will die; the Lord 's enemies will be incinerated— they will go up in smoke.
Fearing the Lord prolongs life, but the life span of the wicked will be shortened.
The Lord works everything for its own ends— even the wicked for the day of disaster.
Therefore the land will mourn, and all its inhabitants will perish. The wild animals, the birds of the sky, and even the fish in the sea will perish.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Mine eye is consumed because of grief,.... Either by reason of the affliction he laboured under, which could not he joyous, but grievous; or because, of the sin that was in him, and those that he had committed, which were grieving to him; or through the sins of other professors of religion, or profane sinners, whom he beheld with grief of heart and weeping eyes: the word f used signifies anger and indignation, and sorrow arising from thence, and may denote either indignation in himself at his enemies, who were rejoicing at his calamities; or the sense he had of the anger of God, and his hot displeasure, which he feared he was rebuking and chastening him with; and now his heart being filled with grief on one or other of these accounts, or all of them, vented itself in floods of tears, which hurt the visive faculty; for through much weeping the eye is weakened and becomes dim; and through a multitude of tears, and a long continuance of them, it fails; see Job 17:7;
it waxeth old because of all mine enemies; saints have many enemies, sin, Satan, and the world; and these are very oppressive ones, as the word g here signifies; such as beset them about, straiten them on all hands, and press them sore; and they must be pressed down by them, were it not that he that is in them is greater than he that is in the world; and David's enemies gave him so much trouble, and caused him to shed such plenty of tears, that his eye waxed old, was shrunk up, and beset with wrinkles, the signs of old age; or it was removed out of its place, as the word is rendered in Job 18:4; or the sight was removed from that, it was gone from him, Psalms 38:10.
f מכעס "prae ira", Pagninus; "prae indignatione", Montanus, Musculus; "ex indignatione", Piscator. g צורדיו "angustiatores", Montanus; "angustiis afficientes me", Vatablus; "oppressores meos", Junius & Tremellius, Gejerus.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Mine eye is consumed - The word here rendered “consumed” - עשׁשׁ ‛âshêsh - means properly to fall in, to fall away, and is applied here to the “eye” as pining or wasting away from care, anxiety, and sorrow. Tears were poured forth from the eye, and it seemed to be exhausting itself in this manner. The meaning is, that it had grown “dim,” or that its sight began to fail, like that of an old man, on account of his troubles. Many have understood the word here rendered “eye” as referring to the “countenance;” but it is doubtful whether the word ever has this signification; and at any rate the common signification, referring it to the “eye,” best suits this connection.
It waxeth old - It seems to grow old; it experiences the effects commonly produced by age in blunting the power of vision. This is not an uncommon effect of grief and sadness. Even while I am writing this I am called in my pastoral visitations to attend on a young lady lying on a bed of languishing, and probably of death, one of whose symptoms is a quite diminished, and indeed almost total loss of vision, as the effect of trouble and disease.
Because of all mine enemies - From the trouble which they have brought upon me. The reference here, according to the interpretation proposed of the psalm, is to Absalom and those who were associated with him. Their conduct had been such as to bring upon David this overwhelming tide of sorrows.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Psalms 6:7. Mine eye is consumed — עששה asheshah, is blasted, withered, sunk in my head.
