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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 groaning is not hid from thee. (Psa. 38:9)

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Psa. 69:3• ³I am weary of my crying: my throat is dried: 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 sore ran in the night, and ceased not: my soul refused to be comforted.
³I remembered God, and was troubled: I complained, and my spirit was overwhelmed. Selah.
⁴Thou holdest mine eyes waking: I am so troubled that I cannot speak.
⁵I have considered the days of old, the years of ancient times.
⁶I call to remembrance my song in the night: I commune with mine own heart: and my spirit made diligent search.
⁷Will the Lord cast off for ever? and will he be favorable no more?
⁸Is his mercy clean gone for ever? doth his promise fail for evermore?
⁹Hath God forgotten to be gracious? hath he in anger shut up his tender mercies? Selah. (Psa. 77:2‑9)

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Psa. 88:9• ⁹Mine eye mourneth by reason of affliction: Lord, I have called daily upon thee, 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 an hearth.
⁴My heart is smitten, and withered like grass; so that I forget to eat my bread.
⁵By reason of the voice of my groaning my bones cleave to my skin. (Psa. 102:3‑5)

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Psa. 143:4‑7• ⁴Therefore is my spirit overwhelmed within me; my heart within me is desolate.
⁵I remember the days of old; I meditate on all thy works; I muse on the work of thy hands.
⁶I stretch forth my hands unto thee: my soul thirsteth after thee, as a thirsty land. Selah.
⁷Hear me speedily, O Lord: my spirit faileth: hide not thy face from me, lest I 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 leave my complaint upon myself; 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, O Lord, and give ear unto my cry; hold not thy peace at my tears: for I am a stranger with thee, and a sojourner, as all my fathers were. (Psa. 39:12)

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

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Job 16:20• ²⁰My friends scorn me: but mine eye poureth out tears unto God. (Job 16:20)

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Jer. 14:17• ¹⁷Therefore thou shalt say this word unto them; Let mine eyes run down with tears night and day, and let them 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 none to comfort her: 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, because the comforter that should relieve my soul is far from me: my children are desolate, because the enemy prevailed. (Lam. 1:2,16)

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Lam. 2:11,18‑19• ¹¹Mine eyes do fail with tears, my bowels are troubled, my liver is poured upon the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people; because the children and the sucklings 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 river day and night: give thyself no rest; let not the apple of thine eye cease.
¹⁹Arise, cry out in the night: in the beginning of the watches pour out thine heart like water before the face of the Lord: lift up thy hands toward him for the life of thy young children, that faint for hunger in the top of every street. (Lam. 2:11,18‑19)

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Lam. 3:48‑50• ⁴⁸Mine eye runneth down with rivers of water for the destruction of the daughter of my people.
⁴⁹Mine eye trickleth down, and ceaseth not, without any intermission,
⁵⁰Till the Lord look down, and behold from heaven. (Lam. 3:48‑50)

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Luke 7:38• ³⁸And stood at his feet behind him weeping, and began to wash his feet with tears, and did wipe them with the hairs of her head, and kissed his feet, and anointed them with the ointment. (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.