Psalms 6 — AAB

Do Not Rebuke Me in Your Anger

For the choirmaster. With stringed instruments, according to Sheminith.⁺A Psalm of David.

6O LORD, do not rebuke me in Your angeror discipline me in Your wrath.²Be merciful to me, O LORD, for I am frail;heal me, O LORD, for my bones are in agony.³My soul is deeply distressed.How long, O LORD, how long?⁴Turn, O LORD, and deliver my soul;save me because of Your loving devotion.⁵For there is no mention of You in death;who can praise You from Sheol?⁶I am weary from groaning;all night I flood my bed with weeping
and drench my couch with tears.⁷My eyes fail from grief;they grow dim because of all my foes.⁸Depart from me, all you workers of iniquity,for the LORD has heard my weeping.⁹The LORD has heard my cry for mercy;the LORD accepts my prayer.¹⁰All my enemies will be ashamed and dismayed;they will turn back in sudden disgrace.