Psalm 6 (ESV) — To the choirmaster: with stringed instruments; according to The Sheminith. A Psalm of David.
1 O Lord, rebuke me not in your anger, nor discipline me in your wrath. 2 Be gracious to me, O Lord, for I am languishing; heal me, O Lord, for my bones are troubled. 3 My soul also is greatly troubled. But you, O Lord—how long? 4 Turn, O Lord, deliver my life; save me for the sake of your steadfast love. 5 For in death there is no remembrance of you; in Sheol who will give you praise? 6 I am weary with my moaning; every night I flood my bed with tears; I drench my couch with my weeping. 7 My eye wastes away because of grief; it grows weak because of all my foes. 8Depart from me, all you workers of evil, for the Lord has heard the sound of my weeping. 9 The Lord has heard my plea; the Lord accepts my prayer. 10 All my enemies shall be ashamed and greatly troubled; they shall turn back and be put to shame in a moment.
Proverbs 25:20 Whoever sings songs to a heavy heart is like one who takes off a garment on a cold day, and like vinegar on soda.
Job 4:8 As I have seen, those who plow iniquity and sow trouble reap the same.
John 9:2 And his disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?
Proverbs 3:11,12 My son, do not despise the Lord’s discipline or be weary of his reproof, 12. for the Lord reproves him whom he loves, as a father the son in whom he delights.
1. DAVID SENSES GOD’S DISAPPROVAL.
Romans 5:-3,4 Not only that, but we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, 4. and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.
2. DAVID FEELS ABANDONED BY GOD.
3. DAVID APPEALS TO GOD’S CHARACTER.
4. GOD ANSWERS HIS PRAYER.
Matthew 7:23 And then will I declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.’
