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Hawker's Poor man's commentary

Psalms 6:6-7

We need only to compare scripture with scripture, to discover that it is Jesus of whom the prophet here speaks. Psalms 22:1. But, Reader! do not hastily pass over this review. Did Jesus cry and groan, and was he weary of it? Whence all this? The answer is at hand: In all this Jesus acted as the sinner's surety. Hence terror beset him on every side: his holy soul was full of horrors and the darkness of death. He sustained all that was the sinner's due, that he might expiate sin by the sacrifice of himself. Hence the surety bleeds, and groans, and dies, that the principal, for whom he suffered, might go free. Hence Jesus trembles, and complains of being forsaken, that his people, his redeemed, might have the oil of joy for mourning, and the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness. Isaiah 61:3. And was this the cause for which Jesus groaned and died? Oh! love unequalled! Oh! matchless grace! Shall my soul ever lose sight of thee, and of thy love? Shall I ever, by unbelief and disobedience, doubt thy love anymore, thou blessed Jesus?

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See also Psalms 6:6-7 in other biblical comments:

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    I AM WEARY WITH MY GROANING - I am exhausted or worn out with it. That is, his sorrows were so deep, and his groaning was so constant, that his strength failed. He became “faint” under the weight of h...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

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  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

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  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _I AM WEARY WITH MY GROANING; ALL THE NIGHT MAKE I MY BED TO SWIM; I WATER MY COUCH WITH MY TEARS._ Another plea why God should have mercy on him-namely, his heartfelt contrition for his sins, which...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

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  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    I WATER MY COUCH WITH TEARS. — Comp. _Odyssey,_ xvii. 102: “Say, to my mournful couch shall I ascend? The couch deserted now a length of years, The couch for ever watered with my tears.” — Pope’s _t...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    _[Psalms 6:7]_ יָגַ֤עְתִּי ׀ בְּֽ אַנְחָתִ֗י אַשְׂחֶ֣ה בְ...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    Psalms 6:1 THE theme and progress of thought in this psalm are very common, especially in those attributed to David. A soul compassed by enemies, whose hate has all but sapped the life out of it, "cat...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    DELIVERANCE IN TROUBLE Psalms 6:1 This is the first of the _Penitential_ Psalms, the other six being Psalms 32:1; Psalms 38:1; Psalms 51

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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 compared with some which follow. It is rather a cry...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

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  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    These forms of expression are hyperbolical, but it must not be imagined that David, after the manner of poets, exaggerates his sorrow; (89) but he declares truly and simply how severe and bitter it ha...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    In Psalms 6 the remnant take another ground. They are oppressed, their soul vexed, the extremity of distress presses on their spirit, and their conscience not being cleared gives the fear that Jehovah...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    I AM WEARY WITH MY GROANINGS,.... By reason of bodily illness, or indwelling sin, or the guilt of actual transgressions, or the hidings of God's face, or a sense of divine wrath, or the temptations of...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

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  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _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, a...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

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  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    I am weary with my groaning, utterly fatigued and worn out with the severity of his suffering; ALL THE NIGHT MAKE I MY BED TO SWIM, with streams of penitent tears; I WATER MY COUCH WITH MY TEARS, so t...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    ALL THE NIGHT: Or, every night...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    1-7 These verses speak the language of a heart truly humbled, of a broken and contrite spirit under great afflictions, sent to awaken conscience and mortify corruption. Sickness brought sin to his re...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    ALL THE NIGHT; he mentions this time, by way of aggravation of his misery, because that season, which is to others by God's appointment a time of rest, was to him very sad and doleful, whether from hi...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Psalms 6:6 weary H3021 (H8804) groaning H585 night H3915 bed H4296 swim H7811 (H8686) drench H4529 ...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    ‘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 because of all those who distress me. He goes on to...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    Psalms 6:6 I. The feeling that he was suffering God's rebuke, smarting under God's correction, was at once a comfort and a grief to the Psalmist: a comfort when he remembered the loving wisdom that co...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

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  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    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, be very grateful that here is a prayer ready-made fo...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: David in weakness seeks God's help. CHARACTERS: God, David. CONCLUSION: Our way often lies through a vale of tears, but there is One whom we can trust in the greatest straits and difficult...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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 better accord with the sentiments of the song. It is a...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

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  • The Biblical Illustrator

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  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

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  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    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, is an error. The tears shed by David over Absalom...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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 of penitence." The grief, however—such grief (see verse...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

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  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Jeremiah 14:17; Job 10:1; Job 16:20; Job 23:2; Job 7:3;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    With my tears — 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...

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