Psalms 6:3
My soul is also sore vexed: but thou, O LORD, how long?
KJV
Miserere mei, Domine, quoniam infirmus sum ; sana me, Domine, quoniam conturbata sunt ossa mea.
Vulgate
ἐλέησόν με, Κύριε, ὅτι ἀσθενής εἰμι· ἴασαί με, ὅτι ἐταράχθη τὰ ὀστᾶ μου.
LXX
My soul also is sore troubled: And thou, O Jehovah, how long?
ASV
חָנֵּ֥/נִי יְהוָה֮ כִּ֤י אֻמְלַ֫ל אָ֥נִי רְפָאֵ֥/נִי יְהוָ֑ה כִּ֖י נִבְהֲל֣וּ עֲצָמָֽ/י
Hebrew
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In the original Hebrew
8 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
אֲנִ֥י
'ny
pronoun · 862×
אֻמְלַ֫ל
'mll
adjective · 1×
הוּ
hv
verb · 38×
י
y
noun · 126×
יְהוָ֖ה
yhvh
proper_noun · 6455×
כִּֽי
ky
pronoun · 4439×
ם
m
verb · 69×
נִי
ny
verb · 79×
Historic Christian voices
3 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
§1502The man of the Old Testament lives his sickness in the presence of God. It is before God that he laments his illness, and it is of God, Master of life and death, that he implores healing.98 Illness becomes a way to conversion; God's forgiveness initiates the healing.99 It is the experience of Israel that illness is mysteriously linked to sin and evil, and that faithfulness to G…
Cross-references
- Jer 15:18 — Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, which refuseth to be healed? wilt thou be altogether unto me as a liar, and as waters that fail?
- John 12:27 — Now is my soul troubled; and what shall I say? Father, save me from this hour: but for this cause came I unto this hour.
- Luke 18:7 — And shall not God avenge his own elect, which cry day and night unto him, though he bear long with them?
- Ps 13:1 — How long wilt thou forget me, O LORD? for ever? how long wilt thou hide thy face from me?
- Ps 13:1 — How long wilt thou forget me, O LORD? for ever? how long wilt thou hide thy face from me?
- Ps 35:17 — Lord, how long wilt thou look on? rescue my soul from their destructions, my darling from the lions.
- Ps 42:5 — Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted in me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him for the help of his countenance.
- Ps 42:11 — Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.
- Ps 77:2 — In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord: my sore ran in the night, and ceased not: my soul refused to be comforted.
- Ps 90:13 — Return, O LORD, how long? and let it repent thee concerning thy servants.
- Rom 8:26 — Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.