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Psalms 6

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O LORD, rebuke me not in thine anger, neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure. Have mercy upon me, O LORD; for I am weak: O LORD, heal me; for my bones are vexed. My soul is also sore vexed: but thou, O LORD, how long? Return, O LORD, deliver my soul: oh save me for thy mercies' sake. For in death there is no remembrance of thee: in the grave who shall give thee thanks? I am weary with my groaning; all the night make I my bed to swim; I water my couch with my tears. Mine eye is consumed because of grief; it waxeth old because of all mine enemies. Depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity; for the LORD hath heard the voice of my weeping. The LORD hath heard my supplication; the LORD will receive my prayer. Let all mine enemies be ashamed and sore vexed: let them return and be ashamed suddenly.

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Psalms 6:3

Western Saints

Augustine of Hippo

"And my soul is troubled exceedingly" [Psalm 6:3]. "And Thou, O Lord, how long?" Who does not see represented here a soul struggling with her diseases; but long kept back by the physician, that she may be convinced what evils she has plunged herself into through sin? For what is easily healed, is not much avoided: but from the difficulty of the healing, there will be the more careful keeping of recovered health. …

On the Psalms, Psalm 6 ↗

Thomas Aquinas

Likewise, discernment is disturbed, inasmuch as it seems to the sinner that he acts rightly when he sins; and therefore he says: "And my soul is greatly troubled," because he has a perverted judgment about what should be done, so that he judges what is good to be evil, and conversely. Then when he says, "But you, Lord," he prays against the liability to damnation. Here he does three things. First, he shows the imminent danger. …

Exposition on the Psalms of David ↗