Berean Standard Bible
Psalms 6:4
4Turn, O LORD, and deliver my soul; save me because of Your loving devotion.
Psalms 6:4 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Return, O Lord, deliver my soul: oh save me for thy mercies’ sake.
- New International Version (NIV)Turn, Lord, and deliver me; save me because of your unfailing love.
- English Standard Version (ESV)Turn, O Lord, deliver my life; save me for the sake of your steadfast love.
- New King James Version (NKJV)Return, O Lord, deliver me! Oh, save me for Your mercies’ sake!
Context of Psalms 6:4
2Be merciful to me, O LORD, for I am frail; heal me, O LORD, for my bones are in agony. 3My soul is deeply distressed. How long, O LORD, how long? Turn, 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? 6I am weary from groaning; all night I flood my bed with weeping and drench my couch with tears.
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שׁוּבָ֣ה יְ֭הוָה חַלְּצָ֣ה נַפְשִׁ֑י ה֝וֹשִׁיעֵ֗נִי לְמַ֣עַן חַסְדֶּֽךָ׃Read the interlinear
Cross-references for Psalms 6:4
- Psalms 80:14Return, O God of Hosts, we pray! Look down from heaven and see! Attend to this vine—
- Psalms 90:13Return, O LORD! How long will it be? Have compassion on Your servants.
- Malachi 3:7Yet from the days of your fathers, you have turned away from My statutes and have not kept them. Return to Me, and I will return to you,” says the LORD of Hosts. “But you ask, ‘How can we return?’
- Psalms 17:13Arise, O LORD, confront them! Bring them to their knees; deliver me from the wicked by Your sword,
- Psalms 22:20Deliver my soul from the sword, my precious life from the power of wild dogs.
- Psalms 86:13For great is Your loving devotion to me; You have delivered me from the depths of Sheol.
- Psalms 116:4Then I called on the name of the LORD: “O LORD, deliver my soul!”
- Psalms 120:2Deliver my soul, O LORD, from lying lips and a deceitful tongue.
- Psalms 121:7The LORD will guard you from all evil; He will preserve your soul.
- Isaiah 38:17Surely for my own welfare I had such great anguish; but Your love has delivered me from the pit of oblivion, for You have cast all my sins behind Your back.
- Psalms 25:7Remember not the sins of my youth, nor my rebellious acts; remember me according to Your loving devotion, because of Your goodness, O LORD.
- Psalms 69:13But my prayer to You, O LORD, is for a time of favor. In Your abundant loving devotion, O God, answer me with Your sure salvation.
- Psalms 79:8Do not hold past sins against us; let Your compassion come quickly, for we are brought low.
- Daniel 9:18Incline Your ear, O my God, and hear; open Your eyes and see the desolation of the city that bears Your name. For we are not presenting our petitions before You because of our righteous acts, but because of Your great compassion.
- Ephesians 1:6to the praise of His glorious grace, which He has freely given us in the Beloved One.
- Ephesians 2:7in order that in the coming ages He might display the surpassing riches of His grace, demonstrated by His kindness to us in Christ Jesus.
Commentaries on Psalms 6:4
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 4Return, O Lord - Once I had the light of thy countenance, by sin I have forfeited this; I have provoked thee to depart: O Lord, return! It is an awful thing to be obliged to say, Return, O Lord, for this supposes backsliding; and yet what a mercy it is that a backslider may Return to God, with the expectation that God will return to him!Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 4Return, O Lord, deliver my soul - As if he had departed from him, and had left him to die. The word “soul” in this place is used, as it often is, in the sense of “life,” for in the next verse he speaks of the grave to which he evidently felt he was rapidly descending. O save me - Save my life; save me from going down to the grave. Deliver me from these troubles and dangers. For thy mercies‘ sake - (a) As an act of mere mercy, for he felt that he had no…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 4-5The experience was so painful that the psalmist might as well have been dead, or perhaps he feared for his life.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 44. Return--that is, to my relief; or, "turn," as now having His face averted. for thy mercies' sake--to illustrate Thy mercy.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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