Berean Standard Bible
Psalms 6:3
3My soul is deeply distressed. How long, O LORD, how long?
Psalms 6:3 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)My soul is also sore vexed: but thou, O Lord, how long?
- New International Version (NIV)My soul is in deep anguish. How long, Lord, how long?
- English Standard Version (ESV)My soul also is greatly troubled. But you, O Lord—how long?
- New King James Version (NKJV)My soul also is greatly troubled; But You, O Lord—how long?
Context of Psalms 6:3
1O LORD, do not rebuke me in Your anger or discipline me in Your wrath. 2Be merciful to me, O LORD, for I am frail; heal me, O LORD, for my bones are in agony. My soul is deeply distressed. How long, O LORD, how long? 4Turn, O LORD, and deliver my soul; save me because of Your loving devotion. 5For there is no mention of You in death; who can praise You from Sheol?
Read all of Psalms 6Psalms 6:3 word by word
וְ֭נַפְשִׁי נִבְהֲלָ֣ה מְאֹ֑ד וְאַתָּ֥ה יְ֝הוָ֗ה עַד־מָתָֽי׃Read the interlinear
Cross-references for Psalms 6:3
- Psalms 22:14I am poured out like water, and all my bones are disjointed. My heart is like wax; it melts away within me.
- Psalms 31:9Be merciful to me, O LORD, for I am in distress; my eyes fail from sorrow, my soul and body as well.
- Psalms 38:8I am numb and badly crushed; I groan in anguish of heart.
- Psalms 42:5Why are you downcast, O my soul? Why the unease within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise Him for the salvation of His presence.
- Psalms 77:2In the day of trouble I sought the Lord; through the night my outstretched hands did not grow weary; my soul refused to be comforted.
- Proverbs 18:14The spirit of a man can endure his sickness, but who can survive a broken spirit?
- Matthew 26:38Then He said to them, “My soul is consumed with sorrow to the point of death. Stay here and keep watch with Me.”
- Psalms 13:1How long, O LORD? Will You forget me forever? How long will You hide Your face from me?
- Psalms 77:7“Will the Lord spurn us forever and never show His favor again?
- Psalms 90:13Return, O LORD! How long will it be? Have compassion on Your servants.
- Luke 18:7Will not God bring about justice for His elect who cry out to Him day and night? Will He delay in helping them?
Commentaries on Psalms 6:3
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 3How long? - How long shall I continue under this malady? How long will it be before thou speak peace to my troubled heart?Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 3My soul is also sore vexed - The word “soul” here is used in the sense in which it is commonly with us, as denoting the mind. The idea is, that his sorrows were not merely those of the bodily frame. They had a deeper seat than even the bones. His mind, his soul, was full of anguish also, in view of the circumstances which surrounded him, and which had brought on these bodily afflictions. But thou, O Lord - This is a broken sentence, as if he had commenced…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 2-3The psalmist became physically weak while waiting for God's answer to his prayer (Psalm 6:6; see 77:3; 119:81; 142:1–3; see also Psalm 101). Fasting (abstaining from eating food) might have contributed to his suffering, but it is not mentioned.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 33. how long?--shall this be so (compare Psa 79:5). but--or, "and." thou--The sentence is incomplete as expressive of strong emotion.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Psalms 6
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- The Treasury of David
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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