Psalms 6:6

David is exhausted by grief, drenching his bed with tears every night. His sorrow before God is profound and unguarded.

Cross-references · 19

• Ps 38:9Lord, all my desire is before you. My groaning is not hidden from you.
• Ps 69:3I am weary with my crying. My throat is dry. My eyes fail, looking for my God.
• Ps 42:3My tears have been my food day and night, while they continually ask me, “Where is your God?”
• Job 16:20My friends scoff at me. My eyes pour out tears to God,
• Lam 2:18–19Their heart cried to the Lord: wall of the daughter of Zion, let tears run down like a river day and night; Give yourself no respite; don’t let the apple of your eye cease.
• Lam 2:11My eyes fail with tears, my heart is troubled; My liver is poured on the earth, because of the destruction of the daughter of my people, Because the young children and the infants swoon in the streets of the city.
• Job 7:3so am I made to possess months of misery, wearisome nights are appointed to me.
• Lam 1:2She weeps bitterly in the night, and her tears are on her cheeks; among all her lovers she has no one to comfort her: All her friends have dealt treacherously with her; they have become her enemies.
• Ps 77:2–9In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord. My hand was stretched out in the night, and didn’t get tired. My soul refused to be comforted.
• Job 23:2“Even today my complaint is rebellious. His hand is heavy in spite of my groaning.
• Lam 1:16“For these things I weep. My eye, my eye runs down with water, because the comforter who should refresh my soul is far from me. My children are desolate, because the enemy has prevailed.”
• Ps 102:3–5For my days consume away like smoke. My bones are burned as a torch.
• Luke 7:38Standing behind at his feet weeping, she began to wet his feet with her tears, and she wiped them with the hair of her head, kissed his feet, and anointed them with the ointment.
• Jer 14:17“You shall say this word to them, “‘Let my 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 wound.
• Ps 88:9My eyes are dim from grief. I have called on you daily, Yahweh. I have spread out my hands to you.
• Ps 39:12“Hear my prayer, Yahweh, and give ear to my cry. Don’t be silent at my tears. For I am a stranger with you, a foreigner, as all my fathers were.
• Ps 143:4–7Therefore my spirit is overwhelmed within me. My heart within me is desolate.
• Job 10:1“My soul is weary of my life. I will give free course to my complaint. I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
• Lam 3:48–50My eye runs down with streams of water, for the destruction of the daughter of my people.

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