Psalms 6:6

Psalms 6:6 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)I am weary with my groaning; all the night make I my bed to swim; I water my couch with my tears.
• New International Version (NIV)I am worn out from my groaning. All night long I flood my bed with weeping and drench my couch with tears.
• English Standard Version (ESV)I am weary with my moaning; every night I flood my bed with tears; I drench my couch with my weeping.
• New King James Version (NKJV)I am weary with my groaning; All night I make my bed swim; I drench my couch with my tears.

Context of Psalms 6:6

4Turn, Lord! Rescue me; save me because of your faithful love. 5For there is no remembrance of you in death; who can thank you in Sheol? I am weary from my groaning; with my tears I dampen my bed and drench my couch every night. 7My eyes are swollen from grief; they grow old because of all my enemies. 8Depart from me, all evildoers, for the Lord has heard the sound of my weeping.

Psalms 6:6 word by word

יָגַ֤עְתִּי׀ בְּֽאַנְחָתִ֗י אַשְׂחֶ֣ה בְכָל־לַ֭יְלָה מִטָּתִ֑י בְּ֝דִמְעָתִ֗י עַרְשִׂ֥י אַמְסֶֽה׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• I am wearyיָגֵעַyâga‛ · be weary/toilH3021
• with my groaningאֲנָחָה'ănâchâh · sighingH585
• all the nightלַ֫יְלָהlayil lêyl layelâh · nightH3915
• make I my bedמִטָּהmiţţâh · bedH4296
• to swimשָׂחָהώâchâh · to swimH7811
• I waterמָסָהmâsâh · to liquefyH4529
• my couchעֶ֫רֶשׂ‛ereώ · bedH6210
• with my tearsדִּמְעָהdim‛âh · tearsH1832

Cross-references for Psalms 6:6

• Psalms 38:9Lord, my every desire is in front of you; my sighing is not hidden from you.
• Psalms 69:3I am weary from my crying; my throat is parched. My eyes fail, looking for my God.
• Psalms 77:2I sought the Lord in my day of trouble. My hands were continually lifted up all night long; I refused to be comforted.
• Psalms 88:9My eyes are worn out from crying. Lord, I cry out to you all day long; I spread out my hands to you.
• Psalms 102:3For my days vanish like smoke, and my bones burn like a furnace.
• Psalms 143:4My spirit is weak within me; my heart is overcome with dismay.
• Job 7:3So I have been made to inherit months of futility, and troubled nights have been assigned to me.
• Job 10:1I am disgusted with my life. I will give vent to my complaint and speak in the bitterness of my soul.
• Job 23:2Today also my complaint is bitter. His hand is heavy despite my groaning.
• Psalms 39:12“Hear my prayer, Lord, and listen to my cry for help; do not be silent at my tears. For I am here with you as an alien, a temporary resident like all my ancestors.
• Psalms 42:3My tears have been my food day and night, while all day long people say to me, “Where is your God?”
• Job 16:20My friends scoff at me as I weep before God.
• Jeremiah 14:17You are to speak this word to them: Let my eyes overflow with tears; day and night may they not stop, for my dearest people have been destroyed by a crushing blow, an extremely severe wound.
• Lamentations 1:2She weeps bitterly during the night, with tears on her cheeks. There is no one to offer her comfort, not one from all her lovers. All her friends have betrayed her; they have become her enemies.
• Lamentations 2:11My eyes are worn out from weeping; I am churning within. My heart is poured out in grief because of the destruction of my dear people, because infants and nursing babies faint in the streets of the city.
• Lamentations 3:48My eyes flow with streams of tears because of the destruction of my dear people.

Commentaries on Psalms 6:6

• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 6I am weary with my groaning - I am exhausted or worn out with it. That is, his sorrows were so deep, and his groaning was so constant, that his strength failed. He became “faint” under the weight of his sorrows. All persons in trouble have experienced this effect - the sense of weariness or exhaustion from sorrow. All the night make I my bed to swim - That is, he wept so much that his bed seemed to be immersed in tears. This is, of course, hyperbolical…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 6-7The psalmist feels deeply exhausted due to his spiritual distance from the Lord (Psalms 22:1; 31:9–10; 102:5). When eyes grow dim, it means the body is failing (see Psalms 13:3; 31:9; 38:10; Matthew 6:22).Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 66. By a strong figure the abundance as well as intensity of grief is depicted.Read the comment

Topics related to Psalms 6:6

• Afflictions and Adversities
• Tears

In the dictionaries

• Bed
• Couch
• Neginoth
• Rebuke
• Return
• Sake
• Sheminith
• Swim
• Burial
• Faint

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