2 Have mercy on me, Yahweh, for I am faint. Yahweh, heal me, for my bones are troubled.
"Come, and let us return to Yahweh; For he has torn us to pieces, And he will heal us; He has injured us, And he will bind up our wounds.
For my life is spent with sorrow, My years with sighing. My strength fails because of my iniquity. My bones are wasted away.
Moses cried to Yahweh, saying, Heal her, God, I beg you.
For my loins are filled with burning. There is no soundness in my flesh.
Heal me, O Yahweh, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall be saved: for you are my praise.
Like a father has compassion on his children, So Yahweh has compassion on those who fear him. For he knows how we are made. He remembers that we are dust. As for man, his days are like grass. As a flower of the field, so he flourishes. For the wind passes over it, and it is gone. Its place remembers it no more. But Yahweh's loving kindness is from everlasting to everlasting with those who fear him, His righteousness to children's children;
Yahweh will sustain him on his sickbed, And restore him from his bed of illness. I said, "Yahweh, have mercy on me! Heal me, for I have sinned against you."
Abraham prayed to God. God healed Abimelech, and his wife, and his maid-servants, and they bore children.
When I kept silence, my bones wasted away through my groaning all day long.
I am poured out like water. All my bones are out of joint. My heart is like wax; It is melted within me.
"Have pity on me, have pity on me, you my friends; For the hand of God has touched me.
For he wounds, and binds up; He injures, and his hands make whole.
and he said, "If you will diligently listen to the voice of Yahweh your God, and will do that which is right in his eyes, and will pay attention to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you, which I have put on the Egyptians; for I am Yahweh who heals you."
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Commentary on Psalms 6 Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
PSALM 6
Ps 6:1-10. On Neginoth (See on Ps 4:1, title) upon Sheminith—the eighth—an instrument for the eighth key; or, more probably, the bass, as it is contrasted with Alamoth (the treble, Ps 46:1) in 1Ch 15:20, 21. In deep affliction the Psalmist appeals to God's mercy for relief from chastisement, which otherwise must destroy him, and thus disable him for God's service. Sure of a gracious answer, he triumphantly rebukes his foes.
1. He owns his ill desert in begging a relief from chastisement.
2. I am weak—as a culled plant (Isa 24:4).
my bones—the very frame.
are vexed—(Ps 2:5)—shaken with fear.
3. how long?—shall this be so (compare Ps 79:5).
but—or, "and."
thou—The sentence is incomplete as expressive of strong emotion.
4. Return—that is, to my relief; or, "turn," as now having His face averted.
for thy mercies' sake—to illustrate Thy mercy.
5. (Compare Ps 115:17, 18; Isa 38:18). There is no incredulity as to a future state. The contrast is between this scene of life, and the grave or Sheol, the unseen world of the dead.
give … thanks—or, "praise for mercies."
6. By a strong figure the abundance as well as intensity of grief is depicted.
7. consumed—or, "has failed," denoting general debility (Ps 13:3; 38:10).
waxeth old—or, "dim."
grief—mingled with indignation.
8, 9. Assured of God's hearing, he suddenly defies his enemies by an address indicating that he no longer fears them.
10. and knows they will be disappointed and in their turn (compare Ps 6:3) be terror-stricken or confounded.