God’s Word Translation
Psalms 6:4
4Come back, O Lord. Rescue me. Save me because of your mercy!
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
2Have pity on me, O Lord, because I am weak. Heal me, O Lord, because my bones shake with terror. 3My soul has been deeply shaken with terror. But you, O Lord, how long … ? Come back, O Lord. Rescue me. Save me because of your mercy! 5In death, no one remembers you. In the grave, who praises you? 6I am worn out from my groaning. My eyes flood my bed every night. I soak my couch with tears.
Read all of Psalms 6Psalms 6:4 word by word
שׁוּבָ֣ה יְ֭הוָה חַלְּצָ֣ה נַפְשִׁ֑י ה֝וֹשִׁיעֵ֗נִי לְמַ֣עַן חַסְדֶּֽךָ׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Psalms 6:4
- Psalms 80:14O God, commander of armies, come back! Look from heaven and see! Come to help this vine.
- Psalms 90:13Return, Lord! How long … ? Change your plans about ⌞us,⌟ your servants.
- Malachi 3:7Since the time of your ancestors you have turned away from my laws and have not followed them. Return to me, and I will return to you,” says the Lord of Armies. “But you ask, ‘How can we return?’
- Psalms 17:13Arise, O Lord; confront them! Bring them to their knees! With your sword rescue my life from wicked people.
- Psalms 22:20Rescue my soul from the sword, my life from vicious dogs.
- Psalms 86:13because your mercy toward me is great. You have rescued me from the depths of hell.
- Psalms 116:4But I kept calling on the name of the Lord: “Please, Lord, rescue me!”
- Psalms 120:2O Lord, rescue me from lying lips and from a deceitful tongue.
- Psalms 121:7The Lord guards you from every evil. He guards your life.
- Isaiah 38:17Now my bitter experience turns into peace. You have saved me and kept me from the rotting pit. You have thrown all my sins behind you.
- Psalms 25:7Do not remember the sins of my youth or my rebellious ways. Remember me, O Lord, in keeping with your mercy and your goodness.
- Psalms 69:13May my prayer come to you at an acceptable time, O Lord. O God, out of the greatness of your mercy, answer me with the truth of your salvation.
- Psalms 79:8Do not hold the crimes of our ancestors against us. Reach out to us soon with your compassion, because we are helpless.
- Daniel 9:18Open your ears and listen, my God. Open your eyes and look at our ruins and at the city called by your name. We are not requesting this from you because we are righteous, but because you are very compassionate.
- Ephesians 1:6so that the kindness he had given us in his dear Son would be praised and given glory.
- Ephesians 2:7He did this through Christ Jesus out of his generosity to us in order to show his extremely rich kindness in the world to come.
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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