Six ways to encounter God here
A passage is not only to be understood; it is to be lived with. Choose how you want to meet God in Psalms 6:6, and Living Bread opens it right there.
Read itSit with the words themselves in The Word.Study itContext, cross-references, and questions in Bible Study.Be still in itLet it quiet you in the Sanctuary.Pray itTurn it into a prayer of your own.Hide it in your heartMemorize it, word by word.Encounter it togetherGather a few people to walk through it.
The web of Scripture around it
Where this passage echoes across the Bible, from the cross-reference graph, 12 connected Scriptures. Each one is a door to meet God there too.
- Psalms 42:3
My tears have been my meat day and night, while they continually say unto me, Where is thy God?
- Psalms 69:3
I am weary of my crying: my throat is dried: mine eyes fail while I wait for my God.
- Psalms 38:9
Lord, all my desire is before thee; and my groaning is not hid from thee.
- Job 7:3
So am I made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me.
- Lamentations 1:2
She weepeth sore in the night, and her tears are on her cheeks: among all her lovers she hath none to comfort her: all her friends have dealt treacher…
- Psalms 102:3
For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as an hearth.
- Lamentations 2:11
Mine eyes do fail with tears, my bowels are troubled, my liver is poured upon the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people; because the…
- Job 16:20
My friends scorn me: but mine eye poureth out tears unto God.
- Lamentations 2:18
Their heart cried unto the LORD, O wall of the daughter of Zion, let tears run down like a river day and night: give thyself no rest; let not the appl…
- Psalms 77:2
In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord: my sore ran in the night, and ceased not: my soul refused to be comforted.
- Job 23:2
Even to day is my complaint bitter: my stroke is heavier than my groaning.
- Lamentations 1:16
For these things I weep; mine eye, mine eye runneth down with water, because the comforter that should relieve my soul is far from me: my children are…
More to meet God in Psalms
How it points to Christ
Every Scripture ultimately leads to Jesus. See how the whole Bible points to Him in Christ in all Scripture, then meet Him for yourself.