King James Version
Psalms 6:3 in the King James Version says “My soul is also sore vexed: but thou, O LORD, how long?” — study this verse from Psalms chapter 6 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“My soul is also sore vexed: but thou, O LORD, how long?”
Psalms 6:3 · KJV
To the chief Musician on Neginoth upon Sheminith, A Psalm of David. O LORD, rebuke me not in thine anger, neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure. Sheminith: or, upon the eight
Have mercy upon me, O LORD; for I am weak: O LORD, heal me; for my bones are vexed.
My soul is also sore vexed: but thou, O LORD, how long?
Return, O LORD, deliver my soul: oh save me for thy mercies' sake.
For in death there is no remembrance of thee: in the grave who shall give thee thanks?
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“My soul”
H5315properly, a breathing creature, i.e., animal of (abstractly) vitality; used very widely in a literal, accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or ment
“vexed”
H926to tremble inwardly (or palpitate), i.e., (figuratively) be (causative, make) (suddenly) alarmed or agitated; by implication to hasten anxiously
“is also sore”
H3966properly, vehemence, i.e., (with or without preposition) vehemently; by implication, wholly, speedily, etc. (often with other words as an intensive or
“but thou O LORD”
H3068(the) self-existent or eternal; jeho-vah, jewish national name of god
as far (or long, or much) as, whether of space (even unto) or time (during, while, until) or degree (equally with)
properly, extent (of time); but used only adverbially (especially with other particle prefixes), when (either relative or interrogative)
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