Psalm 6

¹⁸The Lord disciplined me severely, but He has not given me over to death.

¹A Psalm of David, for remembrance. O Lord, do not rebuke me in Your anger or discipline me in Your wrath.

²⁴Correct me, O Lord, but only with justice—not in Your anger, or You will bring me to nothing.

²⁸And you, My servant Jacob, do not be afraid, declares the Lord, for I am with you. Though I will completely destroy all the nations to which I have banished you, I will not completely destroy you. Yet I will discipline you justly, and will by no means leave you unpunished.”

³¹Now if we judged ourselves properly, we would not come under judgment.

³²But when we are judged by the Lord, we are being disciplined so that we will not be condemned with the world.

²¹And Mattithiah, Eliphelehu, Mikneiah, Obed-edom, Jeiel, and Azaziah were to lead the music with lyres according to Sheminith.

¹Come, let us return to the Lord. For He has torn us to pieces, but He will heal us; He has wounded us, but He will bind up our wounds.

²O Lord my God, I cried to You for help, and You healed me.

¹⁰For my life is consumed with grief and my years with groaning; my iniquity has drained my strength, and my bones are wasting away.

¹⁴Heal me, O Lord, and I will be healed; save me, and I will be saved, for You are my praise.

³⁹See now that I am He; there is no God besides Me. I bring death and I give life; I wound and I heal, and there is no one who can deliver from My hand.

³The Lord will sustain him on his bed of illness and restore him from his bed of sickness.

⁴I said, “O Lord, be gracious to me; heal me, for I have sinned against You.”

¹³Return, O Lord! How long will it be? Have compassion on Your servants.

²⁷Now My soul is troubled, and what shall I say? ‘Father, save Me from this hour’? No, it is for this purpose that I have come to this hour.

¹¹Why are you downcast, O my soul? Why the unease within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise Him, my Savior and my God.

²In the day of trouble I sought the Lord; through the night my outstretched hands did not grow weary; my soul refused to be comforted.

³I remembered You, O God, and I groaned; I mused and my spirit grew faint. Selah

¹For the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. How long, O Lord? Will You forget me forever? How long will You hide Your face from me?

²How long must I wrestle in my soul, with sorrow in my heart each day? How long will my enemy dominate me?

⁷Will not God bring about justice for His elect who cry out to Him day and night? Will He delay in helping them?

¹⁸Incline Your ear, O my God, and hear; open Your eyes and see the desolation of the city that bears Your name. For we are not presenting our petitions before You because of our righteous acts, but because of Your great compassion.

¹³Arise, O Lord, confront them! Bring them to their knees; deliver me from the wicked by Your sword,

⁴Then I called on the name of the Lord: “O Lord, deliver my soul!”

⁷in order that in the coming ages He might display the surpassing riches of His grace, demonstrated by His kindness to us in Christ Jesus.

⁸For it is by grace you have been saved through faith, and this not from yourselves; it is the gift of God,

⁷The Lord will guard you from all evil; He will preserve your soul.

¹³Return, O Lord! How long will it be? Have compassion on Your servants.

¹⁰Do You work wonders for the dead? Do departed spirits rise up to praise You? Selah

¹¹Can Your loving devotion be proclaimed in the grave, Your faithfulness in Abaddon?

¹⁷It is not the dead who praise the Lord, nor any who descend into silence.

¹⁰Whatever you find to do with your hands, do it with all your might, for in Sheol, where you are going, there is no work or planning or knowledge or wisdom.

⁹“What gain is there in my bloodshed, in my descent to the Pit? Will the dust praise You? Will it proclaim Your faithfulness?

¹⁸For Sheol cannot thank You; Death cannot praise You. Those who descend to the Pit cannot hope for Your faithfulness.

¹⁹The living, only the living, can thank You, as I do today; fathers will tell their children about Your faithfulness.

¹⁷I will not die, but I will live and proclaim what the Lord has done.

³I am weary from my crying; my throat is parched. My eyes fail, looking for my God.

³My tears have been my food both day and night, while men ask me all day long, “Where is your God?”

⁹O Lord, my every desire is before You; my groaning is not hidden from You.

²In the day of trouble I sought the Lord; through the night my outstretched hands did not grow weary; my soul refused to be comforted.

³I remembered You, O God, and I groaned; I mused and my spirit grew faint. Selah

³So I am allotted months of futility, and nights of misery are appointed to me.

²She weeps aloud in the night, with tears upon her cheeks. Among all her lovers there is no one to comfort her. All her friends have betrayed her; they have become her enemies.

⁷My eyes have grown dim with grief, and my whole body is but a shadow.

¹⁰My heart pounds, my strength fails, and even the light of my eyes has faded.

⁹My eyes grow dim with grief. I call to You daily, O Lord; I spread out my hands to You.

¹⁷Because of this, our hearts are faint; because of these, our eyes grow dim—

⁹Be merciful to me, O Lord, for I am in distress; my eyes fail from sorrow, my soul and body as well.

¹⁰For my life is consumed with grief and my years with groaning; my iniquity has drained my strength, and my bones are wasting away.

³When I kept silent, my bones became brittle from my groaning all day long.

²⁷And he will answer, ‘I tell you, I do not know where you are from. Depart from me, all you evildoers.’

¹⁸The Lord is near to all who call on Him, to all who call out to Him in truth.

¹¹⁵Depart from me, you evildoers, that I may obey the commandments of my God.

⁴To the Lord I cry aloud, and He answers me from His holy mountain. Selah

²³Then I will tell them plainly, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you workers of lawlessness!’

¹⁹O God, that You would slay the wicked—away from me, you bloodthirsty men—

¹⁹But God has surely heard; He has attended to the sound of my prayer.

²⁰Blessed be God, who has not rejected my prayer or withheld from me His loving devotion!

¹A song of ascents. In my distress I cried to the Lord, and He answered me.

³On the day I called, You answered me; You emboldened me and strengthened my soul.

⁸Three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me.

⁹But He said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for My power is perfected in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly in my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest on me.

⁵In my distress I called to the Lord, and He answered and set me free.

¹For the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. I waited patiently for the Lord; He inclined to me and heard my cry.

²He lifted me up from the pit of despair, out of the miry clay; He set my feet upon a rock, and made my footsteps firm.

¹⁸So you will again distinguish between the righteous and the wicked, between those who serve God and those who do not.”

¹⁷Show me a sign of Your goodness, that my enemies may see and be ashamed; for You, O Lord, have helped me and comforted me.

¹¹But the Lord is with me like a fearsome warrior. Therefore, my persecutors will stumble and will not prevail. Since they have not succeeded, they will be utterly put to shame, with an everlasting disgrace that will never be forgotten.

¹A man who remains stiff-necked after much reproof will suddenly be shattered beyond recovery.

¹¹O Lord, Your hand is upraised, but they do not see it. They will see Your zeal for Your people and be put to shame. The fire set for Your enemies will consume them!

²⁴My tongue will indeed proclaim Your righteousness all day long, for those who seek my harm are disgraced and confounded.