Psalms 6:7
My eyes fail from grief; they grow dim because of all my foes.
BSB
ASV
Mine eye wasteth away because of grief; It waxeth old because of all mine adversaries.
KJV
Mine eye is consumed because of grief; it waxeth old because of all mine enemies.
For in quarrels the very light of the soul, the light of good intent, is blocked. Whence the Psalmist says, "Mine eye is troubled because of anger." And what remains in us of well-doing, if we lose peace from the heart, without which we cannot see the Lord?
In this great sorrow David was a type of Christ, who often wept, and who cried out, My soul is exceedingly sorrowful, Heb. v. 7 . The petitions which he offers up to God in this sorrowful and distressed state. That which he dreads as the greatest evil is the anger of God.
Mine eye is consumed - The word here rendered “consumed” - עשׁשׁ ‛âshêsh - means properly to fall in, to fall away, and is applied here to the “eye” as pining or wasting away from care, anxiety, and sorrow. Tears were poured forth from the eye, and it seemed to be exhausting itself in this manner. The meaning is, that it had grown “dim,” or that its sight began to fail, like that of an old man, on account of his troubles.
"I water my couch with my tears. Mine eye is consumed because of grief; it waxeth old because of all my enemies." As an old man's eye grows dim with years, so, says David, my eye is grown red and feeble through weeping. Conviction sometimes has such an effect upon the body, that even the outward organs are made to suffer. May not this explain some of the convulsions and hysterical attacks which have been experienced under convictions in the revivals in Ireland?
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
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Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
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Psalms 88:9My eyes grow dim with grief. I call to You daily, O LORD; I spread out my hands to You.
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As for you, if you direct your heart and lift up your hands to Him,
My heart pounds, my strength fails, and even the light of my eyes has faded.
Be merciful to me, O Lord, for I call to You all day long.
I stretch out my hands to You; my soul thirsts for You like a parched land. Selah
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Lamentations 5:17Because of this, our hearts are faint; because of these, our eyes grow dim—
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Why do you want more beatings? Why do you keep rebelling? Your head has a massive wound, and your whole heart is afflicted.
My eyes have grown dim with grief, and my whole body is but a shadow.
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Psalms 38:10My heart pounds, my strength fails, and even the light of my eyes has faded.
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My eyes grow dim with grief. I call to You daily, O LORD; I spread out my hands to You.
I am weary from my crying; my throat is parched. My eyes fail, looking for my God.