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title="Psalm 5">◄</a> Psalm 6 <a href="../psalms/7.htm" title="Psalm 7">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">New Living Translation</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/nlt/esv/psalms/6.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="d">For the choir director: A psalm of David, to be accompanied by an eight-stringed instrument.<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">a</span></a></p><p class="b"/><p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/6-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>O LORD, don’t rebuke me in your anger</p><p class="line2">or discipline me in your rage.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/6-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Have compassion on me, LORD, for I am weak.</p><p class="line2">Heal me, LORD, for my bones are in agony.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/6-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>I am sick at heart.</p><p class="line2">How long, O LORD, until you restore me?</p><p class="b"/><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/6-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Return, O LORD, and rescue me.</p><p class="line2">Save me because of your unfailing love.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/6-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>For the dead do not remember you.</p><p class="line2">Who can praise you from the grave?<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">b</span></a></p><p class="b"/><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/6-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>I am worn out from sobbing.</p><p class="line2">All night I flood my bed with weeping,</p><p class="line2">drenching it with my tears.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/6-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>My vision is blurred by grief;</p><p class="line2">my eyes are worn out because of all my enemies.</p><p class="b"/><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/6-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Go away, all you who do evil,</p><p class="line2">for the LORD has heard my weeping.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/6-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>The LORD has heard my plea;</p><p class="line2">the LORD will answer my prayer.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/6-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>May all my enemies be disgraced and terrified.</p><p class="line2">May they suddenly turn back in shame.</p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="fn">a</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">6:TITLE </span><span class="ft"> Hebrew </span><span class="it">with stringed instruments; according to the sheminith.</span><br><span class="fn">b</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">6:5 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="it">from Sheol?</span><br></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><em>Holy Bible</em>, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. 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