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and I am upset and disturbed. My mind is filled with apprehension and with gloom. Oh, restore me soon.

Come, O Lord, and make me well. In your kindness save me. For if I die, I cannot give you glory by praising you before my friends.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 6:5 For if I die, I cannot give you glory by praising you before my friends, literally, “In the grave, who shall give you thanks?” Isaiah 57:1-2 may indicate that Old Testament saints believed in a conscious and pleasant hereafter for those who love God.

My soul is in deep anguish.(A)
    How long,(B) Lord, how long?

Turn,(C) Lord, and deliver me;
    save me because of your unfailing love.(D)
Among the dead no one proclaims your name.
    Who praises you from the grave?(E)

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