Psalms 6:7 KJV — MannaFest

Psalms 6:7

Mine eye is consumed because of grief; it waxeth old because of all mine enemies.

KJV

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ASV

Mine eye wasteth away because of grief; It waxeth old because of all mine adversaries.

WEB

My eyes fail from grief; they grow dim because of all my foes.

YLT

Old from provocation is mine eye, It is old because of all mine adversaries,

DBT

Mine eye wasteth away through grief; it hath grown old because of all mine oppressors.

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Psalms — The canon's longest book — 150 Psalms edited into five doxology-bookended books, composed across a millennium, attributed to David, Asaph, Korah's sons, Moses, Solomon, Heman, Ethan, and anonymous voices. A ''Torah of David''; the Bible's longest continuous liturgical-devotional corpus.

Author: David principally (73 Psalms + 2 NT-cited); Asaph, Sons of Korah, Solomon, Moses, Heman, Ethan; ~50 anonymous.
Date: Composed c. 1400 BC (Mosaic Ps 90) through the post-exilic period (Ps 126 ''when the Lord turned again the captivity of Zion''). Roughly a millennium of composition; editorial compilation likely into the Persian period.

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7 verses on the floor

Psalms 31:9
Have mercy upon me, O Lord, for I am in trouble: mine eye is consumed with grief, yea, my soul and my belly.
Psalms 38:10
My heart panteth, my strength faileth me: as for the light of mine eyes, it also is gone from me.
Lamentations 5:17
For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes are dim.
Job 17:7
Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members are as a shadow.
Lamentations 2:11
Mine eyes do fail with tears, my bowels are troubled, my liver is poured upon the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people; because the children and the sucklings swoon in the streets of the city.

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), here looks and speaks very pleasantly. Having made his requests known to God, and lodged his case with him, he is very confident the issue will be good and his sorrow is turned into joy.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

In this great sorrow David was a type of Christ, who often wept, and who cried out, My soul is exceedingly sorrowful, Heb. v. 7 . The petitions which he offers up to God in this sorrowful and distressed state. That which he dreads as the greatest evil is the anger of God.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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