KJV King James Version
I am weary with my groaning; all the night make I my bed to swim; I water my couch with my tears.
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Psalm 6:6
I am weary with my groaning; all the night make I my bed to swim; I water my couch with my tears.
Read it in 5 translations
BSB Berean Standard Bible
I am weary from groaning; all night I flood my bed with weeping and drench my couch with tears.
WEB World English Bible
I am weary with my groaning. Every night I flood my bed. I drench my couch with my tears.
ASV American Standard Version
I am weary with my groaning; Every night make I my bed to swim; I water my couch with my tears.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
I have been weary with my sighing, I meditate through all the night on my bed, With my tear my couch I waste.
Surrounding context — Psalm 6
3 My soul is also sore vexed: but thou, O LORD, how long?
4 Return, O LORD, deliver my soul: oh save me for thy mercies’ sake.
5 For in death [there is] no remembrance of thee: in the grave who shall give thee thanks?
6 I am weary with my groaning; all the night make I my bed to swim; I water my couch with my tears.
7 Mine eye is consumed because of grief; it waxeth old because of all mine enemies.
8 Depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity; for the LORD hath heard the voice of my weeping.
9 The LORD hath heard my supplication; the LORD will receive my prayer.
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Psalm 38:9Lord, all my desire [is] before thee; and my groaning is not hid from thee.Psalm 69:3I am weary of my crying: my throat is dried: mine eyes fail while I wait for my God.Psalm 42:3My tears have been my meat day and night, while they continually say unto me, Where [is] thy God?Lamentations 1:2She weepeth sore in the night, and her tears [are] on her cheeks: among all her lovers she hath none to comfort [her]: all her friends have dealt treacherously with her, they are become her enemies.Job 16:20My friends scorn me: [but] mine eye poureth out [tears] unto God.Psalm 77:2-9In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord: my sore ran in the night, and ceased not: my soul refused to be comforted.Psalm 102:3-5For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as an hearth.Job 7:3So am I made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me.Lamentations 1:16For these [things] I weep; mine eye, mine eye runneth down with water, because the comforter that should relieve my soul is far from me: my children are desolate, because the enemy prevailed.Lamentations 2:11Mine 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.Lamentations 2:18-19Their heart cried unto the Lord, O wall of the daughter of Zion, let tears run down like a river day and night: give thyself no rest; let not the apple of thine eye cease.Job 23:2Even to day [is] my complaint bitter: my stroke is heavier than my groaning.Job 10:1My soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint upon myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.Psalm 143:4-7Therefore is my spirit overwhelmed within me; my heart within me is desolate.Luke 7:38And stood at his feet behind [him] weeping, and began to wash his feet with tears, and did wipe [them] with the hairs of her head, and kissed his feet, and anointed [them] with the ointment.Psalm 88:9Mine eye mourneth by reason of affliction: LORD, I have called daily upon thee, I have stretched out my hands unto thee.Jeremiah 14:17Therefore thou shalt say this word unto them; Let mine eyes run down with tears night and day, and let them not cease: for the virgin daughter of my people is broken with a great breach, with a very grievous blow.Psalm 39:12Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear unto my cry; hold not thy peace at my tears: for I [am] a stranger with thee, [and] a sojourner, as all my fathers [were].
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