Psalms 6:8

David turns from weeping to confidence, telling evildoers to depart because the Lord has heard him. Assurance that God hears transforms lament into hope.

Cross-references · 13

• Luke 13:27He will say, ‘I tell you, I don’t know where you come from. Depart from me, all you workers of iniquity.’
• Ps 145:18Yahweh is near to all those who call on him, to all who call on him in truth.
• Ps 119:115Depart from me, you evildoers, that I may keep the commandments of my God.
• Ps 3:4I cry to Yahweh with my voice, and he answers me out of his holy hill. Selah.
• Matt 7:23Then I will tell them, ‘I never knew you. Depart from me, you who work iniquity.’
• Heb 5:7He, in the days of his flesh, having offered up prayers and petitions with strong crying and tears to him who was able to save him from death, and having been heard for his godly fear,
• Matt 25:41Then he will say also to those on the left hand, ‘Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire which is prepared for the devil and his angels;
• Ps 139:19If only you, God, would kill the wicked. Get away from me, you bloodthirsty men!
• Isa 30:19For the people will dwell in Zion at Jerusalem. You will weep no more. He will surely be gracious to you at the voice of your cry. When he hears you, he will answer you.
• Ps 116:8For you have delivered my soul from death, my eyes from tears, and my feet from falling.
• Isa 38:3and said, “Remember now, Yahweh, I beg you, how I have walked before you in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in your sight.” Hezekiah wept bitterly.
• Isa 38:5“Go, and tell Hezekiah, ‘Yahweh says, the God of David your father, “I have heard your prayer. I have seen your tears. Behold, I will add fifteen years to your life.
• Ps 56:8You count my wanderings. You put my tears into your bottle. Aren’t they in your book?

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