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Psalm 6:1 through Psalm 6:10 (NIV)
1 O LORD, do not rebuke me in your anger
or discipline me in your wrath.
2 Be merciful to me, LORD, for I am faint;
O LORD, heal me, for my bones are in agony.
3 My soul is in anguish.
How long, O LORD, how long?
4 Turn, O LORD, and deliver me;
save me because of your unfailing love.
5 No one remembers you when he is dead.
Who praises you from the grave?
6 I am worn out from groaning;
all night long I flood my bed with weeping
and drench my couch with tears.
7 My eyes grow weak with sorrow;
they fail because of all my foes.
8 Away from me, all you who do evil,
for the LORD has heard my weeping.
9 The LORD has heard my cry for mercy;
the LORD accepts my prayer.
10 All my enemies will be ashamed and dismayed;
they will turn back in sudden disgrace.
Matthew Henry’s Concise Commentary on the Whole Bible
VERSES 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 remembrance, and he looked upon it as a
token of God’s displeasure against him. The affliction of his body will be
tolerable, if he has comfort in his soul. Christ’s sorest complaint, in his
sufferings, was of the trouble of his soul, and the want of his Father’s smiles.
Every page of Scripture proclaims the fact, that salvation is only of the Lord.
Man is a sinner, his case can only be reached by mercy; and never is mercy more
illustrious than in restoring backsliders. With good reason we may pray, that if
it be the will of God, and he has any further work for us or our friends to do
in this world, he will yet spare us or them to serve him. To depart and be with
Christ is happiest for the saints; but for them to abide in the flesh is more
profitable for the church.
VERSES 8-10
What a sudden change is here! Having made his request known to God, the psalmist
is confident that his sorrow will be turned into joy. By the workings of God’s
grace upon his heart, he knew his prayer was accepted, and did not doubt but it
would, in due time, be answered. His prayers will be accepted, coming up out of
the hands of Christ the Mediator. The word signifies prayer made to God, the
righteous Judge, as the God of his righteousness, who would plead his cause, and
right his wrongs. A believer, through the blood and righteousness of Christ, can
go to God as a righteous God, and plead with him for pardon and cleansing, who
is just and faithful to grant both. He prays for the conversion of his enemies,
or foretells their ruin.
See Healing