Psalms 6:4 KJV — MannaFest

Psalms 6:4

Return, O Lord, deliver my soul: oh save me for thy mercies’ sake.

KJV

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ASV

Return, O Jehovah, deliver my soul: Save me for thy lovingkindness’ sake.

WEB

Turn, O LORD, and deliver my soul; save me because of Your loving devotion.

YLT

Turn back, O Jehovah, draw out my soul, Save me for Thy kindness' sake.

DBT

Return, Jehovah, free my soul; save me for thy loving-kindness' sake.

About this book

Old Testament

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Psalms — The canon's longest book — 150 Psalms edited into five doxology-bookended books, composed across a millennium, attributed to David, Asaph, Korah's sons, Moses, Solomon, Heman, Ethan, and anonymous voices. A ''Torah of David''; the Bible's longest continuous liturgical-devotional corpus.

Author: David principally (73 Psalms + 2 NT-cited); Asaph, Sons of Korah, Solomon, Moses, Heman, Ethan; ~50 anonymous.
Date: Composed c. 1400 BC (Mosaic Ps 90) through the post-exilic period (Ps 126 ''when the Lord turned again the captivity of Zion''). Roughly a millennium of composition; editorial compilation likely into the Persian period.

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Cross-references

22 verses on the floor

Jeremiah 17:14
Heal me, O Lord, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall be saved: for thou art my praise.
Psalms 31:16
Make thy face to shine upon thy servant: save me for thy mercies’ sake.
Psalms 12:1
Help, Lord; for the godly man ceaseth; for the faithful fail from among the children of men.
Psalms 3:7
Arise, O Lord; save me, O my God: for thou hast smitten all mine enemies upon the cheek bone; thou hast broken the teeth of the ungodly.
Daniel 9:18
O my God, incline thine ear, and hear; open thine eyes, and behold our desolations, and the city which is called by thy name: for we do not present our supplications before thee for our righteousnesses, but for thy great mercies.

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Cross-references: OpenBible.info (CC-BY), based on the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

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The pleas with which he enforces his petitions, not to move God (he knows our cause and the true merits of it better than we can state them), but to move himself. He pleads God's mercy; and thence we take some of our best encouragements in prayer: Save me, for thy mercies' sake.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

Return--that is, to my relief; or, "turn," as now having His face averted. for thy mercies' sake--to illustrate Thy mercy.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

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