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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 I am made to inherit months of wretchedness,{HR}And nights of distress are appointed to me. (Job 7:3)

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Psa. 38:9• ⁹O Lord, before thee [is] all my desire,{HR}And my sighing hath not been hidden from thee. (Psa. 38:9)

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Psa. 69:3• ³I am wearied in my crying, parched is my throat,{HR}Mine eyes fail, while waiting for my God (Eloah). (Psa. 69:3)

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Psa. 77:2‑9• ²In the day of my distress I sought the Lord (Adonai);{HR}My hand was stretched out in the night and slacked not;{HR}My soul refused to be comforted.
³I remembered God and was disquieted;{HR}I complained, and my spirit was overwhelmed. Selah.
⁴Thou holdest mine eyes watching,{HR}I am troubled and cannot speak.
⁵I consider the days of old,{HR}The years of ancient times.
⁶I call to remembrance my song in the night;{HR}I commune with mine own heart,{HR}And my spirit maketh diligent search.
⁷Will the Lord cast off forever?{HR}And will he be favourable no more?
⁸Hath his mercy failed forever?{HR}Hath the word come to an end from generation to generation?
⁹Hath God forgotten to be gracious?{HR}Or hath he in anger shut up his tender mercies? Selah. (Psa. 77:2‑9)

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Psa. 88:9• ⁹Mine eye wasteth because of mine affliction.{HR}I have called on thee, O Jehovah, every day,{HR}I have stretched out my hands toward thee. (Psa. 88:9)

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Psa. 102:3‑5• ³For my days are consumed like smoke,{HR}And my bones are burned as a firebrand.
⁴My heart is smitten as grass and dried up;{HR}For I forget to eat my bread.
⁵From the voice of my groaning{HR}My bone cleaveth to my flesh. (Psa. 102:3‑5)

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Psa. 143:4‑7• ⁴And overwhelmed in (on) me is my spirit,{HR}In the midst of me desolated is my heart.
⁵I remembered days of old;{HR}I meditated on all thy doings;{HR}On the work of thy hands I mused.
⁶I spread my hands unto thee;{HR}My soul like a weary land [thirsteth] for thee, Selah.
⁷Hasten, answer me, Jehovah: my spirit faileth;{HR}Hide not thy face from me,{HR}And I shall not be like [those that] go down to the pit. (Psa. 143:4‑7)

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Job 7:3• ³So I am made to inherit months of wretchedness,{HR}And nights of distress are appointed to me. (Job 7:3)

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Job 10:1• ¹My soul is weary of my life;{HR}I will give way to my plaint,{HR}I will speak in the bitterness of my soul, (Job 10:1)

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Job 23:2• ²Also today [is] my complaint rebellion,{HR}My stroke is heavier than my groaning. (Job 23:2)

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Psa. 39:12• ¹²Hear my prayer, O Jehovah,{HR}And to my cry give ear;{HR}At my tears be not silent;{HR}For a stranger [am] I with thee,{HR}A sojourner like all my fathers. (Psa. 39:12)

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Psa. 42:3• ³My tears have been food to me by day and by night,{HR}Whilst they say unto me all the day, Where [is] thy God? (Psa. 42:3)

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Job 16:20• ²⁰My mockers [are] my friends;{HR}Mine eye poureth out to God, (Job 16:20)

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Jer. 14:17• ¹⁷{i}And 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.{/i} (Jer. 14:17)

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

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Lam. 2:11,18‑19• ¹¹Mine eyes do fill with tears, my bowels are troubled,{HR}My liver is poured upon the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people;{HR}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,{HR}Let tears run down like a river day and night: give thyself no rest;{HR}Let not the apple of thine eye cease.
¹⁹Arise, cry out in the night:{HR}In the beginning of the watches pour out thine heart like water before the face of the Lord:{HR}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 Jehovah look down, and behold from heaven. (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. (“Psalm 6” by H. Smith)

J. N. Darby Translation

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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.

W. Kelly Translation

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I am weary with my sighing;{HR}All the night make I my bed to swim;{HR}I cause my couch to flow down with my tears.