4 Return, O LORD, deliver my soul: oh save me for thy mercies' sake.
4 Return, H7725 O LORD, H3068 deliver H2502 my soul: H5315 oh save H3467 me for thy mercies' H2617 sake.
4 Return, O Jehovah, deliver my soul: Save me for thy lovingkindness' sake.
4 Turn back, O Jehovah, draw out my soul, Save me for Thy kindness' sake.
4 Return, Jehovah, free my soul; save me for thy loving-kindness' sake.
4 Return, Yahweh. Deliver my soul, And save me for your loving kindness' sake.
4 Come back, O Lord, make my soul free; O give me salvation because of your mercy.
Arise, O LORD, disappoint him, cast him down: deliver my soul from the wicked, which is thy sword:
Then called I upon the name of the LORD; O LORD, I beseech thee, deliver my soul.
Return, we beseech thee, O God of hosts: look down from heaven, and behold, and visit this vine;
Deliver my soul from the sword; my darling from the power of the dog.
That in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus. For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:
To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved.
Remember not the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions: according to thy mercy remember thou me for thy goodness' sake, O LORD.
Behold, for peace I had great bitterness: but thou hast in love to my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption: for thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back.
Deliver my soul, O LORD, from lying lips, and from a deceitful tongue.
For thou hast delivered my soul from death, mine eyes from tears, and my feet from falling.
O remember not against us former iniquities: let thy tender mercies speedily prevent us: for we are brought very low. Help us, O God of our salvation, for the glory of thy name: and deliver us, and purge away our sins, for thy name's sake.
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Commentary on Psalms 6 Matthew Henry Commentary
Psalm 6
David was a weeping prophet as well as Jeremiah, and this psalm is one of his lamentations: either it was penned in a time, or at least calculated for a time, of great trouble, both outward and inward. Is any afflicted? Is any sick? Let him sing this psalm. The method of this psalm is very observable, and what we shall often meet with. He begins with doleful complaints, but ends with joyful praises; like Hannah, who went to prayer with a sorrowful spirit, but, when she had prayed, went her way, and her countenance was no more sad. Three things the psalmist is here complaining of:-
This psalm is like the book of Job.
To the chief musician on Neginoth upon Sheminith. A psalm of David.
Psa 6:1-7
These verses speak the language of a heart truly humbled under humbling providences, of a broken and contrite spirit under great afflictions, sent on purpose to awaken conscience and mortify corruption. Those heap up wrath who cry not when God binds them; but those are getting ready for mercy who, under God's rebukes, sow in tears, as David does here. Let us observe here,
We should sing these verses with a deep sense of the terrors of God's wrath, which we should therefore dread and deprecate above any thing; and with thankfulness if this be not our condition, and compassion to those who are thus afflicted: if we be thus troubled, let it comfort us that our case is not without precedent, nor, if we humble ourselves and pray, as David did, shall it be long without redress.
Psa 6:8-10
What a sudden change is here for the better! He that was groaning, and weeping, and giving up all for gone (v. 6, 7), here looks and speaks very pleasantly. Having made his requests known to God, and lodged his case with him, he is very confident the issue will be good and his sorrow is turned into joy.
In singing this, and praying over it, we must give glory to God, as a God ready to hear prayer, must own his goodness to us in hearing our prayers, and must encourage ourselves to wait upon him and to trust in him in the greatest straits and difficulties.