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Psalms 6:4
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Turn, Lord! Rescue me;save me because of your faithful love.
Return, LORD. Deliver my soul, And save me for your lovingkindness' sake.
Return, O Lord , deliver my soul: oh save me for thy mercies' sake.
Turn, O Lord , deliver my life; save me for the sake of your steadfast love.
Lord , return and save me; save me because of your kindness.
Relent, Lord , rescue me! Deliver me because of your faithfulness!
Return, O LORD, rescue my soul; Save me because of Your [unfailing] steadfast love and mercy.
Return, LORD, rescue my soul; Save me because of Your mercy.
Return, Yahweh. Deliver my soul, And save me for your lovingkindness' sake.
Returne, O Lord: deliuer my soule: saue me for thy mercies sake.
Return, O Yahweh, rescue my soul;Save me because of Your lovingkindness.
Turn, O LORD, and deliver my soul; save me because of Your loving devotion.
Turn and come to my rescue. Show your wonderful love and save me, Lord .
I am completely terrified; and you, Adonai — how long?
Return, Jehovah, free my soul; save me for thy loving-kindness' sake.
Return, O LORD, and deliver my soul: save me for thy mercies sake.
Come and save me, Lord ; in your mercy rescue me from death.
Turn, O Yahweh; deliver my life. Save me for the sake of your steadfast love.
O Jehovah, return, deliver my soul; save me for Your mercy's sake.
Turne the (o LORDE) & delyuer my soule: Oh saue me, for thy mercies sake.
Return, O Jehovah, deliver my soul: Save me for thy lovingkindness' sake.
Come back, O Lord, make my soul free; O give me salvation because of your mercy.
My soul also is sore affrighted; and Thou, O LORD, how long?
Returne, O Lord, deliuer my soule: oh saue mee, for thy mercies sake.
Turne thee O God, and deliuer my soule: Oh saue me for thy mercies sake.
Return, O Lord, deliver my soul: save me for thy mercy’s sake.
Return, O LORD, deliver my soul: save me for thy lovingkindness' sake.
Lord, be thou conuertid, and delyuere my soule; make thou me saaf, for thi merci.
Return, O Yahweh, deliver my soul: Save me for your loving-kindness' sake.
Return, O LORD, deliver my soul: Oh save me for thy mercies sake.
Return, O LORD, deliver me! Oh, save me for Your mercies' sake!
Return, O Lord , and rescue me. Save me because of your unfailing love.
Return, O Lord. Set my soul free. Save me because of Your loving-kindness.
Turn, O Lord , save my life; deliver me for the sake of your steadfast love.
Return, O Yahweh, deliver my soul, Save me, for the sake of thy lovingkindness;
(6-5) Turn to me, O Lord, and deliver my soul: O save me for thy mercy’s sake.
Turn, O LORD, save my life; deliver me for the sake of thy steadfast love.
Turn back, O Jehovah, draw out my soul, Save me for Thy kindness' sake.
Break in, God , and break up this fight; if you love me at all, get me out of here. I'm no good to you dead, am I? I can't sing in your choir if I'm buried in some tomb!
Return, O Lord , rescue my soul; Save me because of Your lovingkindness.
Contextual Overview
To the director: With stringed instruments, on the sheminith. A song of David.
Lord , don't punish me. Don't correct me when you are so angry. 2 Lord , be kind to me. I am sick and weak. Heal me, Lord ! My bones are shaking. 3 I am trembling all over. Lord , how long until you heal me? 4 Lord , come back and make me strong again. Save me because you are so loyal and kind. 5 If I am dead, I cannot sing about you. Those in the grave don't praise you. 6 Lord, I am so weak. I cried to you all night. My pillow is soaked; my bed is dripping wet from my tears. 7 My enemies have caused me such sorrow that my eyes are worn out from crying.Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Return: Psalms 80:14, Psalms 90:13, Malachi 3:7
deliver: Psalms 17:13, Psalms 22:20, Psalms 86:13, Psalms 116:4, Psalms 116:8, Psalms 120:2, Psalms 121:7, Isaiah 38:17
for: Psalms 25:7, Psalms 69:13, Psalms 79:8, Psalms 79:9, Daniel 9:18, Ephesians 1:6, Ephesians 2:7, Ephesians 2:8
Reciprocal: Psalms 12:1 - Help Psalms 31:16 - save Isaiah 38:11 - General Jeremiah 17:14 - Heal
Cross-References
"This is the size I want you to make the boat: 300 cubits long, 50 cubits wide, and 30 cubits high.
Two of every kind of bird, animal, and creeping thing will come to you so that you might keep them alive.
Also bring every kind of food into the boat, for you and for the animals."
Noah did everything God commanded him.
Then the people said, "Let's build ourselves a city and a tower that will reach to the sky. Then we will be famous. This will keep us together so that we will not be scattered all over the earth."
We saw the giant Nephilim people there! (The descendants of Anak come from the Nephilim.) We felt like little grasshoppers. Yes, we were like grasshoppers to them!"
These four men gathered 250 other men from Israel together and came against Moses. They were leaders who had been chosen by the people. All the people knew them.
(Og was the king of Bashan. He was one of the few Rephaites still alive. His bed was made from iron, and it was over 13 feet long and 6 feet wide. The bed is still in the city of Rabbah, where the Ammonites live.)
The Philistines had a champion fighter named Goliath, who was from Gath. He was over 9 feet tall. Goliath came out of the Philistine camp.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Return, O Lord,.... By this it seems that the Lord had withdrawn himself, and was departed from the psalmist, wherefore he entreats him to return unto him, and grant him his gracious presence. God is immense and omnipresent, he is everywhere: going away and returning cannot be properly ascribed to him; but he, nay be said to depart from his people, as to sensible communion with him, and enjoyment of him, when he hides his face, withdraws his gracious presence, and the comfortable discoveries and influences of his love; and he may be said to return when he visits them again, and manifests his love and favour to them: the Jewish writers d interpret it,
"return from the fierceness of thine anger,''
as in Psalms 85:3; and though there is no such change in God, as from love to wrath, and from wrath to love; but inasmuch as there is a change in his dispensations towards his people, it is as if it was so; and thus it is apprehended by them;
deliver my soul; from the anxiety, distress, and sore vexation it was now in, for of all troubles soul troubles are the worst: and from all enemies and workers of iniquity which were now about him, and gave him much grief and uneasiness; and from death itself, he was in fear of;
O, save me for thy mercy's sake; out of all troubles of soul and body, and out of the hands of all enemies, inward and outward; and with temporal, spiritual, and eternal salvation; not for his righteousness's sake, as Kimchi well observes; for salvation is according to the abundant mercy of God, and not through works of righteousness done by men, otherwise it would not be of grace.
d Jarchi, Aben Ezra, Kimchi, & Ben Melech in loc.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Return, O Lord, deliver my soul - As if he had departed from him, and had left him to die. The word âsoulâ in this place is used, as it often is, in the sense of âlife,â for in the next verse he speaks of the grave to which he evidently felt he was rapidly descending.
O save me - Save my life; save me from going down to the grave. Deliver me from these troubles and dangers.
For thy merciesâ sake -
(a) As an act of mere mercy, for he felt that he had no claim, and could not urge it as a matter of right and justice; and
(b) in order that Godâs mercy might be manifest, or because he was a merciful Being, and might, therefore, be appealed to on that ground.
These are proper grounds, now, on which to make an appeal to God for his interposition in our behalf; and, indeed, these are the only grounds on which we can plead with him to save us.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Psalms 6:4. Return, O Lord — Once I had the light of thy countenance, by sin I have forfeited this; I have provoked thee to depart: O Lord, return! It is an awful thing to be obliged to say, Return, O Lord, for this supposes backsliding; and yet what a mercy it is that a backslider may RETURN to God, with the expectation that God will return to him!
