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A Prayer About 'How,' Not 'If'
Commentators note that David is not rejecting God's discipline but pleading about its intensity. He accepts the need for rebuke but asks that it not be delivered in 'anger' or 'hot displeasure.' This models a mature prayer that acknowledges God's right to correct His children while simultaneously appealing to His fatherly mercy and gentleness.
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Albert Barnes
On Psalms 6:1
18th Century
Theologian
O Lord, rebuke me not in your anger - as if God was rebuking him through the affliction He was bringing upon him. This is the point…
Charles Ellicott
On Psalms 6:1
19th Century
Bishop
O Lord, rebuke me not. —Repeated with change of one word in Psalm 38:1. The sublime thought that pain and sorrow are a di…
Charles Spurgeon
On Psalm 6:1
19th Century
Preacher
O LORD, rebuke me not in your anger,
"Rebuke me; it will do me good; I need it; but not in anger. Be gentle and tender with me: '
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John Calvin
On Psalms 6:1
16th Century
Theologian
The calamity that David now experienced had perhaps been inflicted by men, but he wisely considers that he has to deal with God. Those people are v…
John Gill
On Psalms 6:1
17th Century
Pastor
O Lord, rebuke me not in your anger ,
The Lord sometimes rebukes or reproves men by his spirit, and sometimes by his…
Matthew Henry
On Psalms 6:1–7
17th Century
Minister
These verses speak the language of a heart truly humbled, of a broken and contrite spirit under great afflictions, sent to awaken conscience and mo…