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Psalm 6 :: New Living Translation (NLT)

Psa 6:1For the choir director: A psalm of David, to be accompanied by an eight-stringed instrument.[fn]

O LORD, don’t rebuke me in your anger
or discipline me in your rage.
Psa 6:2Have compassion on me, LORD, for I am weak.
Heal me, LORD, for my bones are in agony.
Psa 6:3I am sick at heart.
How long, O LORD, until you restore me?
Psa 6:4Return, O LORD, and rescue me.
Save me because of your unfailing love.
Psa 6:5For the dead do not remember you.
Who can praise you from the grave?[fn]
Psa 6:6I am worn out from sobbing.
All night I flood my bed with weeping,
drenching it with my tears.
Psa 6:7My vision is blurred by grief;
my eyes are worn out because of all my enemies.
Psa 6:8Go away, all you who do evil,
for the LORD has heard my weeping.
Psa 6:9The LORD has heard my plea;
the LORD will answer my prayer.
Psa 6:10May all my enemies be disgraced and terrified.
May they suddenly turn back in shame.
NLT Footnotes
Hebrew with stringed instruments; according to the sheminith.
Hebrew from Sheol?
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