Tree of Life Version
Psalms 6:4
4as is my soul— and You, Adonai—how long?
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
2Adonai, do not rebuke me in Your anger! Do not discipline me in Your wrath. 3Be gracious to me, Adonai, for I am weak. Heal me, Adonai— for my bones are shuddering with fear, as is my soul— and You, Adonai—how long? 5Turn toward me, Adonai, deliver my soul! Save me—because of Your mercy. 6For there is no memory of You in death, in Sheol who will praise You?
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שׁוּבָ֣ה יְ֭הוָה חַלְּצָ֣ה נַפְשִׁ֑י ה֝וֹשִׁיעֵ֗נִי לְמַ֣עַן חַסְדֶּֽךָ׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Psalms 6:4
- Psalms 80:14A boar from the forest ravages it, whatever moves in the field feeds on it.
- Psalms 90:13Relent, Adonai! How long? Have compassion on Your servants.
- Malachi 3:7“From the days of your ancestors you have turned aside from My statutes, and have not kept them. Return to Me, and I will return to you,” says Adonai-Tzva’ot. Yet you say: “How should we return?”
- Psalms 17:13Arise, Adonai! Confront him! Make him bow down! Deliver my soul from the wicked with Your sword,
- Psalms 22:20But You, Adonai, be not far off! O my strength! Come quickly to my aid!
- Psalms 86:13For great is Your lovingkindness toward me. You have delivered my soul from the lowest part of Sheol.
- Psalms 116:4Then I called upon the Name of Adonai: “Adonai, save my soul!”
- Psalms 120:2Adonai, deliver my soul from lying lips, from a deceitful tongue.
- Psalms 121:7Adonai will protect you from all evil. He will guard your life.
- Isaiah 38:17Behold, it was for my own shalom that I had great bitterness. You have loved my soul out of the Pit of destruction! For You have flung all my sins behind Your back.
- Psalms 25:7Remember not the sins of my youth, nor my rebellion. According to Your mercy remember me, for the sake of Your goodness, Adonai.
- Psalms 69:13Those who sit at the gate chatter about me, and I am the song of the drunkards.
- Psalms 79:8Do not hold against us the sins of our fathers. May Your mercies come quickly to meet us, for we are brought very low.
- Daniel 9:18Give ear, my God, and hear! Open Your eyes and see our desolation and the city called by Your name. We do not present our supplications before You because of our own righteousness, but because of Your great compassions.
- Ephesians 1:6to the glorious praise of His grace, with which He favored us through the One He loves!
- Ephesians 2:7to show in the olam ha-ba the measureless richness of His grace in kindness toward us in Messiah Yeshua.
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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