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Verse	Translation	Text
Ps 6:2	Strong Concordance	Have mercy [02603] upon me, O LORD [03068]; for I am weak [0536]: O LORD [03068], heal [07495] me; for my bones [06106] are vexed [0926].
	King James	Have mercy upon me, O LORD; for I am weak: O LORD, heal me; for my bones are vexed.

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A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]
I am weak--as a culled plant (Isa 24:4). my bones--the very frame. are vexed-- (Psa 2:5) --shaken with fear.

A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]

I am weak--as a culled plant (Isa 24:4).

my bones--the very frame.

are vexed-- (Psa 2:5) --shaken with fear.

Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834]
Have mercy upon me, O Lord - That is, be gracious to me; or, show me compassion. This language may be used either in view of sin, of suffering, or of danger. It is a cry to God to interpose, and remove some present source of trouble, and may be employed by one who feels that he is a sinner, or by one on a bed of pain, or by one surrounded by enemies, or by one at the point of death, or by one who is looking out with apprehension upon the eternal world. It is commonly, indeed (compare Psa 51:1), a cry to God in view of sin, pleading for pardon and salvation; but here it is a cry in view of trouble and danger, outward sorrow and mental anguish, that had overcome the strength of the sufferer and laid him on a bed of languishing. See introduction to the psalm, Section 3. For I am weak - The original word here, אמלל 'ûmlal, means properly to languish or droop, as plants do that are blighted, Isa 24:7, or as fields do in a drought, Isa 16:8, and is here applied to a sick person whose strength is withered and gone. The condition of such an one is beautifully compared with a plant that withers for lack of moisture; and the word is used in this sense here, as referring to the psalmist himself when sick, as the result of his outward and mental sorrows. Such an effect has not been uncommon in the world. There have been numberless cases where sorrow has prostrated the strength - as a plant withers - and has brought on languishing sickness. O Lord, heal me - This is language which would be properly applied to a case of sickness, and therefore, it is most natural to interpret it in this sense in this place. Compare Isa 19:22; Isa 30:26; Job 5:18; Gen 20:17; Psa 60:2; Ch2 16:12; Deu 28:27. For my bones are vexed - The word "vexed" we now commonly apply to mental trouble, and especially the lighter sort of mental trouble - to irritate, to make angry by little provocations, to harass. It is used here, however, as is common in the Scriptures, in reference to torment or to anguish. The bones are the strength and framework of the body, and the psalmist means here to say that the very source of his strength was gone; that that which supported him was prostrated; that his disease and sorrow had penetrated the most firm parts of his body. Language is often used in the Scriptures, also, as if the "bones" actually suffered pain, though it is now known that the bones, as such, are incapable of pain. And in the same manner, also, language is often used, though that use of the word is not found in the Scriptures, as if the "marrow" of the bones were especially sensitive, like a nerve, in accordance with what is the common and popular belief, though it is now known that the marrow of the bones is entirely insensible to suffering. The design of the psalmist here is to say that he was crushed and afflicted in every part of his frame.

Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834]

Have mercy upon me, O Lord - That is, be gracious to me; or, show me compassion. This language may be used either in view of sin, of suffering, or of danger. It is a cry to God to interpose, and remove some present source of trouble, and may be employed by one who feels that he is a sinner, or by one on a bed of pain, or by one surrounded by enemies, or by one at the point of death, or by one who is looking out with apprehension upon the eternal world. It is commonly, indeed (compare Psa 51:1), a cry to God in view of sin, pleading for pardon and salvation; but here it is a cry in view of trouble and danger, outward sorrow and mental anguish, that had overcome the strength of the sufferer and laid him on a bed of languishing. See introduction to the psalm, Section 3.

For I am weak - The original word here, אמלל 'ûmlal, means properly to languish or droop, as plants do that are blighted, Isa 24:7, or as fields do in a drought, Isa 16:8, and is here applied to a sick person whose strength is withered and gone. The condition of such an one is beautifully compared with a plant that withers for lack of moisture; and the word is used in this sense here, as referring to the psalmist himself when sick, as the result of his outward and mental sorrows. Such an effect has not been uncommon in the world. There have been numberless cases where sorrow has prostrated the strength - as a plant withers - and has brought on languishing sickness.

O Lord, heal me - This is language which would be properly applied to a case of sickness, and therefore, it is most natural to interpret it in this sense in this place. Compare Isa 19:22; Isa 30:26; Job 5:18; Gen 20:17; Psa 60:2; Ch2 16:12; Deu 28:27.

For my bones are vexed - The word "vexed" we now commonly apply to mental trouble, and especially the lighter sort of mental trouble - to irritate, to make angry by little provocations, to harass. It is used here, however, as is common in the Scriptures, in reference to torment or to anguish. The bones are the strength and framework of the body, and the psalmist means here to say that the very source of his strength was gone; that that which supported him was prostrated; that his disease and sorrow had penetrated the most firm parts of his body. Language is often used in the Scriptures, also, as if the "bones" actually suffered pain, though it is now known that the bones, as such, are incapable of pain. And in the same manner, also, language is often used, though that use of the word is not found in the Scriptures, as if the "marrow" of the bones were especially sensitive, like a nerve, in accordance with what is the common and popular belief, though it is now known that the marrow of the bones is entirely insensible to suffering. The design of the psalmist here is to say that he was crushed and afflicted in every part of his frame.

Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65]
Bones - My inmost parts.

Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826
Have mercy - I have no merit. I deserve all I feel and all I fear. O Lord, heal me - No earthly physician can cure my malady. Body and soul are both diseased, and only God can help me. I am weak - אמלל umlal. I am exceedingly weak; I cannot take nourishment, and my strength is exhausted. My bones are vexed - The disease hath entered into my bones.

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⁵ Then shall he speak [01696] unto them in his wrath [0639], and vex [0926] them in his sore displeasure [02740].

⁴ The earth [0776] mourneth [056] and fadeth away [05034], the world [08398] languisheth [0535] and fadeth away [05034], the haughty [04791] people [05971] of the earth [0776] do languish [0535].

²⁷ The LORD [03068] will smite [05221] thee with the botch [07822] of Egypt [04714], and with the emerods [02914] [06076], and with the scab [01618], and with the itch [02775], whereof thou canst [03201] not be healed [07495].

¹² And Asa [0609] in the thirty [07970] and ninth [08672] year [08141] of his reign [04438] was diseased [02456] in his feet [07272], until his disease [02483] was exceeding [04605] great: yet in his disease [02483] he sought [01875] not to the LORD [03068], but to the physicians [07495].

² Thou hast made the earth [0776] to tremble [07493]; thou hast broken [06480] it: heal [07495] the breaches [07667] thereof; for it shaketh [04131].

¹⁷ So Abraham [085] prayed [06419] unto God [0430]: and God [0430] healed [07495] Abimelech [040], and his wife [0802], and his maidservants [0519]; and they bare [03205] children.

¹⁸ For he maketh sore [03510], and bindeth up [02280]: he woundeth [04272], and his hands [03027] make whole [07495].

²⁶ Moreover the light [0216] of the moon [03842] shall be as the light [0216] of the sun [02535], and the light [0216] of the sun [02535] shall be sevenfold [07659], as the light [0216] of seven [07651] days [03117], in the day [03117] that the LORD [03068] bindeth up [02280] the breach [07667] of his people [05971], and healeth [07495] the stroke [04273] of their wound [04347].

²² And the LORD [03068] shall smite [05062] Egypt [04714]: he shall smite [05062] and heal [07495] it: and they shall return [07725] even to the LORD [03068], and he shall be intreated [06279] of them, and shall heal [07495] them.

⁸ For the fields [07709] of Heshbon [02809] languish [0535], and the vine [01612] of Sibmah [07643]: the lords [01167] of the heathen [01471] have broken down [01986] the principal plants [08291] thereof, they are come [05060] even unto Jazer [03270], they wandered [08582] through the wilderness [04057]: her branches [07976] are stretched out [05203], they are gone over [05674] the sea [03220].

⁷ The new wine [08492] mourneth [056], the vine [01612] languisheth [0535], all the merryhearted [08056] [03820] do sigh [0584].

¹ To the chief Musician [05329], A Psalm [04210] of David [01732], when Nathan [05416] the prophet [05030] came [0935] unto him, after he had gone in [0935] to Bathsheba [01339]. Have mercy [02603] upon me, O God [0430], according to thy lovingkindness [02617]: according unto the multitude [07230] of thy tender mercies [07356] blot out [04229] my transgressions [06588].