New King James Version
Psalms 6:2
2Have mercy on me, O Lord, for I am weak; O Lord, heal me, for my bones are troubled.
Psalms 6:2 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Have mercy upon me, O Lord; for I am weak: O Lord, heal me; for my bones are vexed.
- New International Version (NIV)Have mercy on me, Lord, for I am faint; heal me, Lord, for my bones are in agony.
- English Standard Version (ESV)Be gracious to me, O Lord, for I am languishing; heal me, O Lord, for my bones are troubled.
- New Living Translation (NLT)Have compassion on me, Lord, for I am weak. Heal me, Lord, for my bones are in agony.
Context of Psalms 6:2
1O Lord, do not rebuke me in Your anger, Nor chasten me in Your hot displeasure. Have mercy on me, O Lord, for I am weak; O Lord, heal me, for my bones are troubled. 3My soul also is greatly troubled; But You, O Lord—how long? 4Return, O Lord, deliver me! Oh, save me for Your mercies’ sake!
Read all of Psalms 6Psalms 6:2 word by word
חָנֵּ֥נִי יְהוָה֮ כִּ֤י אֻמְלַ֫ל אָ֥נִי רְפָאֵ֥נִי יְהוָ֑ה כִּ֖י נִבְהֲל֣וּ עֲצָמָֽי׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Psalms 6:2
- Psalms 38:7For my loins are full of inflammation, And there is no soundness in my flesh.
- Psalms 41:3The Lord will strengthen him on his bed of illness; You will sustain him on his sickbed.
- Psalms 103:13As a father pities his children, So the Lord pities those who fear Him.
- Psalms 30:2O Lord my God, I cried out to You, And You healed me.
- Genesis 20:17So Abraham prayed to God; and God healed Abimelech, his wife, and his female servants. Then they bore children;
- Exodus 15:26and said, “If you diligently heed the voice of the Lord your God and do what is right in His sight, give ear to His commandments and keep all His statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you which I have brought on the Egyptians. For I am the Lord who heals you.”
- Numbers 12:13So Moses cried out to the Lord, saying, “Please heal her, O God, I pray!”
- Deuteronomy 32:39‘Now see that I, even I, am He, And there is no God besides Me; I kill and I make alive; I wound and I heal; Nor is there any who can deliver from My hand.
- Job 5:18For He bruises, but He binds up; He wounds, but His hands make whole.
- Jeremiah 17:14Heal me, O Lord, and I shall be healed; Save me, and I shall be saved, For You are my praise.
- Hosea 6:1Come, and let us return to the Lord; For He has torn, but He will heal us; He has stricken, but He will bind us up.
- Matthew 4:24Then His fame went throughout all Syria; and they brought to Him all sick people who were afflicted with various diseases and torments, and those who were demon-possessed, epileptics, and paralytics; and He healed them.
- Psalms 32:3When I kept silent, my bones grew old Through my groaning all the day long.
- Psalms 38:3There is no soundness in my flesh Because of Your anger, Nor any health in my bones Because of my sin.
- Psalms 51:8Make me hear joy and gladness, That the bones You have broken may rejoice.
- Job 19:21“Have pity on me, have pity on me, O you my friends, For the hand of God has struck me!
Commentaries on Psalms 6:2
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 2Have mercy - I have no merit. I deserve all I feel and all I fear. O Lord, heal me - No earthly physician can cure my malady. Body and soul are both diseased, and only God can help me. I am weak - אמלל umlal . I am exceedingly weak; I cannot take nourishment, and my strength is exhausted. My bones are vexed - The disease hath entered into my bones.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 2Have mercy upon me, O Lord - That is, be gracious to me; or, show me compassion. This language may be used either in view of sin, of suffering, or of danger. It is a cry to God to interpose, and remove some present source of trouble, and may be employed by one who feels that he is a sinner, or by one on a bed of pain, or by one surrounded by enemies, or by one at the point of death, or by one who is looking out with apprehension upon the eternal world. It…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. 22. I am weak--as a culled plant (Is 24:4). my bones--the very frame. are vexed--(Psa 2:5)--shaken with fear.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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