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Psa. 6:6 KJV (With Strong’s)

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I am weary with my groaning; δall the nightn make I my bed to swim; I water my couch with my tears.

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Job 7:3• ³So am I made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me. (Job 7:3)

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Psa. 38:9• ⁹Lord, all my desire is before thee, and my sighing is not hid from thee. (Psa. 38:9)

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Psa. 69:3• ³I am weary with my crying, my throat is parched; mine eyes fail while I wait for my God. (Psa. 69:3)

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Psa. 77:2‑9• ²In the day of my trouble, I sought the Lord: my hand was stretched out in the night, and slacked not; my soul refused to be comforted.
³I remembered God, and I moaned; I complained, and my spirit was overwhelmed. Selah.
⁴Thou holdest open mine eyelids; I am full of disquiet and cannot speak.
⁵I consider the days of old, the years of ancient times.
⁶I remember my song in the night; I muse in mine own heart, and my spirit maketh diligent search.
⁷Will the Lord cast off for ever? and will he be favourable no more?
⁸Hath his loving-kindness ceased for ever? hath his word come to an end from generation to generation?
⁹Hath *God forgotten to be gracious? or hath he in anger shut up his tender mercies? Selah. (Psa. 77:2‑9)

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Psa. 88:9• ⁹Mine eye consumeth by reason of affliction. Upon thee, Jehovah, have I called every day; I have stretched out my hands unto thee. (Psa. 88:9)

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Psa. 102:3‑5• ³For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as a firebrand.
⁴My heart is smitten and withered like grass; yea, I have forgotten to eat my bread.
⁵By reason of the voice of my groaning, my bones cleave to my flesh. (Psa. 102:3‑5)

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Psa. 143:4‑7• ⁴And my spirit is overwhelmed within me; my heart within me is desolate.
⁵I remember the days of old: I meditate on all thy doing; I muse on the work of thy hands.
⁶I stretch forth my hands unto thee: my soul, as a parched land, thirsteth after thee. Selah.
⁷Answer me speedily, O Jehovah; my spirit faileth: hide not thy face from me, or I shall be like unto them that go down into the pit. (Psa. 143:4‑7)

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Job 7:3• ³So am I made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me. (Job 7:3)

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Job 10:1• ¹My soul is weary of my life: I will give free course to my complaint; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul. (Job 10:1)

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Job 23:2• ²Even to-day is my complaint bitter: my stroke is heavier than my groaning. (Job 23:2)

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Psa. 39:12• ¹²Hear my prayer, Jehovah, and give ear unto my cry; be not silent at my tears: for I am a stranger with thee, a sojourner, like all my fathers. (Psa. 39:12)

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Psa. 42:3• ³My tears have been my bread day and night, while they say unto me all the day, Where is thy God? (Psa. 42:3)

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Job 16:20• ²⁰My friends are my mockers; mine eye poureth out tears unto +God. (Job 16:20)

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Jer. 14:17• ¹⁷And thou shalt say this word unto them: Let mine eyes run down with tears, night and day, and not cease; for the virgin daughter of my people is broken with a great breach, with a very grievous blow. (Jer. 14:17)

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Lam. 1:2,16• ²She weepeth sore in the night, and her tears are on her cheeks; among all her lovers she hath no comforter; all her friends have dealt treacherously with her, they are become her enemies.
¹⁶For these things I weep; mine eye, mine eye runneth down with water: for the comforter that should revive my soul is far from me; my children are desolate, for the enemy hath prevailed. (Lam. 1:2,16)

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Lam. 2:11,18‑19• ¹¹Mine eyes are consumed with tears, my bowels are troubled; my liver is poured upon the earth, because of the ruin of the daughter of my people; because infant and suckling swoon in the streets of the city.
¹⁸Their heart cried unto the Lord. O wall of the daughter of Zion, let tears run down like a torrent day and night: give thyself no respite; let not the apple of thine eye rest.
¹⁹Arise, cry out in the night, in the beginning of the watches; pour out thy heart like water before the face of the Lord: lift up thy hands toward him for the life of thy young children, who faint from hunger at the top of all the streets. (Lam. 2:11,18‑19)

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Lam. 3:48‑50• ⁴⁸Mine eye runneth down with streams of water for the ruin of the daughter of my people.
⁴⁹Mine eye poureth down, and ceaseth not, without any intermission,
⁵⁰till Jehovah look down and behold from the heavens. (Lam. 3:48‑50)

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Luke 7:38• ³⁸and standing at his feet behind him weeping, began to wash his feet with tears; and she wiped them with the hairs of her head, and kissed his feet, and anointed them with the myrrh. (Luke 7:38)

• (vv. 6-7) Though submitting to the chastening of the Lord, the soul realizes that the unrepentant mass of the nation is opposed to him as his enemies. To stand alone in the midst of an opposing nation, as Jeremiah in his day, causes the soul acute anguish. (“Psalms 6” by H. Smith)

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I am wearied with my groaning; all the night make I my bed to swim; I dissolve my couch with my tears.