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Psalm 6:1–10 — The LORD Has Heard My Plea · A Tithe of Time Podcast

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  SPEAKER_00: Welcome to a tithe of time, rooted in wisdom, growing wiser, one passage at a time.
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  SPEAKER_00: Today we'll be looking at Psalm 6, 1 to 10, reading from the ESV.
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  SPEAKER_00: O Lord, rebuke me not in your anger, nor discipline me in your wrath.
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  SPEAKER_00: Be gracious to me, O Lord, for I am languishing.
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  SPEAKER_00: Heal me, O Lord, for my bones are troubled.
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  SPEAKER_00: My soul also is greatly troubled.
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  SPEAKER_00: But you, O Lord, how long?
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  SPEAKER_00: Turn, O Lord, deliver my life, save me for the sake of your steadfast love.
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  SPEAKER_00: For in death there is no remembrance of you.
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  SPEAKER_00: In Sheol, who will give you praise?
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  SPEAKER_00: I am weary with my moaning.
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  SPEAKER_00: Every night I flood my bed with tears.
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  SPEAKER_00: I drench my couch with my weeping.
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  SPEAKER_00: My eye wastes away because of grief.
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  SPEAKER_00: It grows weak because of all my foes.
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  SPEAKER_00: Depart from me, all you workers of evil, for the Lord has heard the sound of my weeping.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Lord has heard my plea.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Lord accepts my prayer.
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  SPEAKER_00: All my enemies shall be ashamed and greatly troubled.
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  SPEAKER_00: They shall turn back and be put to shame in a moment.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now let's look closer.
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  SPEAKER_00: Psalm 6 opens with David asking for mercy in the middle of deep distress.
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  SPEAKER_00: He speaks about his bones, his soul, his tears, and his enemies.
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  SPEAKER_00: The trouble is not described as one simple problem.
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  SPEAKER_00: It reaches into his body, his emotions, and his circumstances.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then David asks one of the shortest and most human questions in the Psalm.
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  SPEAKER_00: But you, O Lord, how long?
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  SPEAKER_00: He does not tell us how long the suffering has lasted.
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  SPEAKER_00: What the text does show is that David has reached the point where waiting itself has become part of the pain.
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  SPEAKER_00: Notice what he appeals to when he asks to be saved, for the sake of your steadfast love.
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  SPEAKER_00: David does not point to his own strength or say he has earned rescue.
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  SPEAKER_00: His plea rests on the character of God.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then the language becomes intensely personal.
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  SPEAKER_00: Every night I flood my bed with tears.
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  SPEAKER_00: Whether we take that as vivid poetic language or as a description of overwhelming weeping, the point is clear.
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  SPEAKER_00: David is exhausted by grief.
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  SPEAKER_00: But something changes in verses 8 and 9.
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  SPEAKER_00: The enemies have not yet been described as gone, yet David suddenly says, The Lord has heard the sound of my weeping.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Lord has heard my plea.
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  SPEAKER_00: That repeated, the Lord has heard is the turning point.
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  SPEAKER_00: David's confidence changes before the situation is described as changing.
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  SPEAKER_00: He moves from asking, How long?
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  SPEAKER_00: to speaking as someone who believes his prayer has been received.
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  SPEAKER_00: And notice the ending.
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  SPEAKER_00: Earlier, David says his own soul is greatly troubled.
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  SPEAKER_00: By the final verse, he says his enemies will be greatly troubled.
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  SPEAKER_00: The same kind of language that described David's distress is now turned toward those opposing him.
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  SPEAKER_00: Here's the picture Psalm 6, 1 to 10 leaves us with.
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  SPEAKER_00: Faith can speak honestly from exhaustion, grief, and fear while still resting its hope in God's steadfast love.
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  SPEAKER_00: David does not hide his tears, but neither does he let his tears have the final word.
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  SPEAKER_00: This concludes Psalm 6 1 to 10.
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  SPEAKER_00: Next, we'll continue in our rooted in wisdom series with Proverbs 3 1 to 12.
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  SPEAKER_00: And remember, tithe your time.