Psalms
The Psalter is Israel’s hymnbook: lament, praise, thanksgiving, royal psalms, and wisdom. It trains the heart to speak to God in trouble and in joy, and it points ahead to the Messiah.
English Revised Version
Psalms 6
1O LORD, rebuke me not in thine anger, neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure. 2Have mercy upon me, O LORD; for I am withered away: O LORD, heal me; for my bones are vexed. 3My soul also is sore vexed: and thou, O LORD, how long? 4Return, O LORD, deliver my soul: save me for thy lovingkindness’ sake. 5For in death there is no remembrance of thee: in Sheol who shall give thee thanks? 6I am weary with my groaning; every night make I my bed to swim; I water my couch with my tears. 7Mine eye wasteth away because of grief; it waxeth old because of all mine adversaries. 8Depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity; for the LORD hath heard the voice of my weeping. 9The LORD hath heard my supplication; the LORD will receive my prayer. 10All mine enemies shall be ashamed and sore vexed: they shall turn back, they shall be ashamed suddenly.
English Revised Version (1885). Public domain. The 1881/1885 British revision of the King James Version; parent of the ASV.