Psalms 6:3 KJV — MannaFest

Psalms 6:3

My soul is also sore vexed: but thou, O Lord, how long?

KJV

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ASV

My soul also is sore troubled: And thou, O Jehovah, how long?

WEB

My soul is deeply distressed. How long, O LORD, how long?

YLT

And my soul hath been troubled greatly, And Thou, O Jehovah, till when?

DBT

And my soul trembleth exceedingly: and thou, Jehovah, till how long?

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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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18 verses on the floor

Psalms 13:1
How long wilt thou forget me, O Lord? for ever? how long wilt thou hide thy face from me?
Romans 8:26
Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.
Psalms 90:13
Return, O Lord, how long? and let it repent thee concerning thy servants.
John 12:27
Now is my soul troubled; and what shall I say? Father, save me from this hour: but for this cause came I unto this hour.
Luke 18:7
And shall not God avenge his own elect, which cry day and night unto him, though he bear long with them?

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Those that will not give glory to God shall have their faces filled with everlasting shame. In singing this, and praying over it, we must give glory to God, as a God ready to hear prayer, must own his goodness to us in hearing our prayers, and must encourage ourselves to wait upon him and to trust in him in the greatest straits and difficulties.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

To the living God we must, at such a time, address ourselves, who is the only physician both of body and mind, and not to the Assyrians, not to the god of Ekron. The impression which his troubles made upon him. They lay very heavily; he groaned till he was weary, wept till he made his bed to swim, and watered his couch (

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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