I am weary from groaning; all night I flood my bed with weeping and drench my couch with tears.
Parallel translations
- WEB I am weary with my groaning. Every night I flood my bed. I drench my couch with my tears.
- KJV I am weary with my groaning; all the night make I my bed to swim; I water my couch with my tears.
- NKJV I am weary with my groaning; All night I make my bed swim; I drench my couch with my tears.
- NASB ¶I am weary with my sighing; Every night I make my bed swim, I flood my couch with my tears.
- NLT I am worn out from sobbing. All night I flood my bed with weeping, drenching it with my tears.
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Quick answer
David is exhausted by grief, drenching his bed with tears every night. His sorrow before God is profound and unguarded.
Overview
With vivid hyperbole, David describes nights of weeping that flood his bed, conveying the depth of his anguish. He pours out his grief openly before the Lord rather than hiding it. Such honest lament is welcome to God, who keeps His people's tears and who in Christ wept with the sorrowing and will one day wipe every tear away.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 19
- Ps 38:9O Lord, my every desire is before You; my groaning is not hidden from You.
- Ps 69:3I am weary from my crying; my throat is parched. My eyes fail, looking for my God.
- Ps 42:3My tears have been my food both day and night, while men ask me all day long, “Where is your God?”
- Job 16:20My friends are my scoffers as my eyes pour out tears to God.
- Lam 2:18–19The hearts of the people cry out to the Lord. O wall of the Daughter of Zion, let your tears run down like a river day and night. Give yourself no relief, and your eyes no rest.
- Lam 2:11My eyes fail from weeping; I am churning within. My heart is poured out in grief over the destruction of the daughter of my people, because children and infants faint in the streets of the city.
- Job 7:3So I am allotted months of futility, and nights of misery are appointed me.
- Lam 1:2She weeps aloud in the night, with tears upon her cheeks. Among all her lovers there is no one to comfort her. All her friends have betrayed her; they have become her enemies.
- Ps 77:2–9In the day of trouble I sought the Lord; through the night my outstretched hands did not grow weary; my soul refused to be comforted.
- Job 23:2“Even today my complaint is bitter. His hand is heavy despite my groaning.
- Lam 1:16For these things I weep; my eyes flow with tears. For there is no one nearby to comfort me, no one to revive my soul. My children are destitute because the enemy has prevailed.
- Ps 102:3–5For my days vanish like smoke, and my bones burn like glowing embers.
- Luke 7:38As she stood behind Him at His feet weeping, she began to wet His feet with her tears and wipe them with her hair. Then she kissed His feet and anointed them with the perfume.
- Jer 14:17You are to speak this word to them: ‘My eyes overflow with tears; day and night they do not cease, for the virgin daughter of my people has been shattered by a crushing blow, a severely grievous wound.
- Ps 88:9My eyes grow dim with grief. I call to You daily, O LORD; I spread out my hands to You.
- Ps 39:12Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear to my cry for help; do not be deaf to my weeping. For I am a foreigner dwelling with You, a stranger like all my fathers.
- Ps 143:4–7My spirit grows faint within me; my heart is dismayed inside me.
- Job 10:1“I loathe my own life; I will express my complaint and speak in the bitterness of my soul.
- Lam 3:48–50Streams of tears flow from my eyes over the destruction of the daughter of my people.
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