Psalms 6:6,7

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. It well becomes the greatest spirits to be tender, and to relent under the tokens of God's displeasure. David, who could face Goliath himself, melts into tears at the remembrance of sin, and under the apprehension of divine wrath, and it is no diminution to his character. Mine eye is consumed Or grown dim, or dull, as עשׁשׁה, gnosheshah, may be rendered; namely, through the many tears which I shed, or through the decay of my spirits. Because of grief For my sins and miseries, or grief arising from mine enemies; as the next clause interprets it, and from the consideration of their multitude, rage, and falseness.