Psalms 6:7 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁷Mine eye is consumed because of grief; it waxeth old because of all mine enemies.

Psalms 6:7 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Job 17:7
Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members are as a shadow.
Psalms 38:10
My heart panteth, my strength faileth me: as for the light of mine eyes, it also is gone from me.
Psalms 88:9
Mine eye mourneth by reason of affliction: LORD, I have called daily upon thee, I have stretched out my hands unto thee.
Lamentations 5:17
For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes are dim.
Psalms 32:3
When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long.

Topics

Afflictions and Adversities

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-7)

These verses speak the language of a heart truly humbled under humbling providences, of a broken and contrite spirit under great afflictions, sent on purpose to awaken conscience and mortify corruption. Those heap up wrath who cry not when God binds them; but those are getting ready for mercy who, under God’s rebukes, sow in tears, as David does here. Let us observe here, I. The representation he…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 7)

7. consumed--or, “has failed,” denoting general debility (Psa 13:3; 38:10). waxeth old--or, “dim.” grief--mingled with indignation.