Job 17:7; Lamentations 5:17; Psalms 31:10; Psalms 31:9; Psalms 32:3; Psalms 38:10; Psalms 88:9
Mine eye is consumed - The word here rendered “consumed” - עשׁשׁ ‛ âshêsh - means properly to fall in, to fall away, and is applied here t...
VI. A Righteous Man's Prayer in Distress. ( a ) Notice ( Psalms 6:1-7 ) the recognition of the fact that suffering is not always the proof of guilt...
consumed . wasted. enemies . adversaries.
Mine eye is consumed because of grief; it waxeth old because of all mine enemies. Mine eye is consumed - עששה asheshah, is blasted, withered, sunk in...
Mine eye, &c.— Mine eye is { fretted / worn away } with indignation; it is grown old because of all my oppressors. Mr. Mudge observes, th...
Mine eye is consumed because of grief; it waxeth old because of all mine enemies. Mine eye ... waxeth old. The eye generally indicates the st...
Consumed — i.e., sunken; literally, fallen away. The LXX. use the same word employed to render vexed in Psalms 6:2 . Grief has brought the s...
Psalms 6:1-10 THE theme and progress of thought in this psalm are very common, especially in those attributed to David. A soul compassed by enemie...
Deliverance in Trouble Psalms 6:1-10 This is the first of the Penitential Psalms, the other six being Psalms 32:1-11 ; Psalms 38:1-22 ; Ps...
This is known as the first of the seven great penitential psalms. It is somewhat weak in its note of true penitence and in this respect is not to be...
We need only to compare scripture with scripture, to discover that it is Jesus of whom the prophet here speaks. Psalms 22:1-2 . But, Reader! do not...
Mine eye is consumed because of grief ,.... Either by reason of the affliction he laboured under, which could not he joyous, but grievous; or becaus...
Mine eye is consumed because of grief; it waxeth old because of all mine enemies. Ver. 7. Mine eye is consumed ] Heb. gnawn, moth eaten. That eye...
All the night Or, every night , as the margin renders כל לילה, cal lailah; make I my bed to swim With tears, an hyperbole used also elsewhere. I...
David's Complaints. To the chief musician on Neginoth upon Sheminith. A psa...
Consumed; or, grown dim or dull , through plenty of salt tears which I shed; or through the decay of my spirits. Because of grief, i.e. my gri...
‘I am weary with my groaning. Every night I make my bed swim, I water my couch with my tears. My eye wastes away because of grief, It grows old b...
INTRODUCTION “The first of the seven Penitential Psalms. It has been said that there is much of grief in it, but nothing of penitence. This, however...
Psalms 6 We may get the meaning and help of this Psalm by asking, How did David conduct himself in the time of sickness and trouble? I. He made h...
Here the psalmist asks for a visit from God, for he is sick at heart, heavy and depressed. Be very thankful if that is not your case; but if it is, b...
The Title. On Sheminith; directing this psalm to be sung with a harp of eight strings, 1 Chronicles 15:21 , that the air and the music might the...
O Lord, rebuke me not in Thine anger. A song of sorrow It is needless to look for a historical occasion of the Psalm; but to an oar that knows...
I am weary with my groaning. The penitent’s sorrow The penitent here expresses the effects which his sorrow had upon him in its outward manifes...
EXPOSITION This is the first of what have been called "the Penitential Psalms." It has been said that "there is much of grief in it, but nothing...
A Prayer in Anxiety over Sin. To the chief musician on Neginoth, the stringed instruments of the Temple-orchestra, upon Sheminith, that is, on the...
Mine eye, as the mirror of man's entire being, is consumed because of grief, dissolved with mourning; it waxeth old because of all mine enemies,...
7 Mine eye is consumed because of grief; it waxeth old because of all mine enemies.