Psalm 6:6 {7}
Good News Translation
I am worn out with grief; every night my bed is damp from my weeping; my pillow is soaked with tears.

New Revised Standard Version
I am weary with my moaning; every night I flood my bed with tears; I drench my couch with my weeping.

Contemporary English Version
My groaning has worn me out. At night my bed and pillow are soaked with tears.

New American Bible
I am wearied with sighing; all night long I drench my bed with tears; I soak my couch with weeping.

Douay-Rheims Bible
I have laboured in my groanings, every night I will wash my bed: I will water my couch with my tears.

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I have laboured in my groanings, every night I will wash my bed: I will water my couch with my tears.

I am

Psalm 38:9 Lord, all my desire is before thee, and my groaning is not hidden from thee.

Psalm 69:3 I have laboured with crying; my jaws are become hoarse, my eyes have failed, whilst I hope in my God.

Psalm 77:2-9 In the days of my trouble I sought God, with my hands lifted up to him in the night, and I was not deceived. My soul refused to be comforted: . . .

Psalm 88:9 My eyes languished through poverty. All the day I cried to thee, O Lord: I stretched out my hands to thee.

Psalm 102:3-5 For my days are vanished like smoke, and my bones are grown dry like fuel for the fire. . . .

Psalm 143:4-7 And my spirit is in anguish within me: my heart within me is troubled. . . .

Job 7:3 So I also have had empty months, and have numbered to myself wearisome nights.

Job 10:1 My soul is weary of my life, I will let go my speech against myself, I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

Job 23:2 Now also my words are in bitterness, and the hand of my scourge is more grievous than my mourning.

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Psalm 39:12 Hear my prayer, O Lord, and my supplication: give ear to my tears. Be no silent: for I am a stranger with thee, and a sojourner as all my fathers were.

Psalm 42:3 My tears have been my bread day and night, whilst it is said to me daily: Where is thy God?

Job 16:20 My friends are full of words: my eye poureth out tears to God.

Jeremiah 14:17 And thou shalt speak this word to them: Let my eyes shed down tears night and day, and let them not cease, because the virgin daughter of my people is afflicted with a great affliction, with an exceeding grievous evil.

Lamentations 1:2,16 Beth. Weeping, she hath wept in the night, and her tears are on her cheeks: there is none to comfort her among all them that were dear to her: all her friends have despised her, and are become her enemies. . . .

Lamentations 2:11,18,19 Caph. My eyes have failed with weeping, my bowels are troubled: my liver is poured out upon the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people, when the children, and the sucklings, fainted away in the streets of the city. . . .

Lamentations 3:48-50 Phe. My eye hath run down with streams of water, for the destruction of the daughter of my people. . . .

Luke 7:38 And standing behind at his feet. she began to wash his feet with tears and wiped them with the hairs of her head and kissed his feet and anointed them with the ointment.

Context
Do not Rebuke Me in Your Anger
5For there is no one in death, that is mindful of thee: and who shall confess to thee in hell? 6I have laboured in my groanings, every night I will wash my bed: I will water my couch with my tears.7My eye is troubled through indignation: I have grown old amongst all my enemies.…
Cross References
Job 7:13
If I say: My bed shall comfort me, and I shall be relieved, speaking with myself on my couch:

Psalm 22:1
Unto the end, for the morning protection, a psalm for David. [2] O God my God, look upon me: why hast thou forsaken me? Far from my salvation are the words of my sins.

Psalm 38:9
Lord, all my desire is before thee, and my groaning is not hidden from thee.

Psalm 42:3
My tears have been my bread day and night, whilst it is said to me daily: Where is thy God?

Psalm 69:3
I have laboured with crying; my jaws are become hoarse, my eyes have failed, whilst I hope in my God.

Isaiah 38:3
And said: I beseech thee, O Lord, remember how I have walked before thee in truth, and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in thy sight. And Ezechias wept with great weeping.

Jeremiah 45:3
Thou hast said: Woe is me, wretch that I am, for the Lord hath added sorrow to my sorrow: I am wearied with my groans, and I find no rest.

Lamentations 1:2
Beth. Weeping, she hath wept in the night, and her tears are on her cheeks: there is none to comfort her among all them that were dear to her: all her friends have despised her, and are become her enemies.

Psalm 6:5
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