Judaism
Psalms 6
Text
For the Leader; with string-music; on the Sheminith. A Psalm of David.
O LORD, rebuke me not in Thine anger, Neither chasten me in Thy wrath.
Be gracious unto me, O LORD, for I languish away; Heal me, O LORD, for my bones are affrighted.
My soul also is sore affrighted; And Thou, O LORD, how long?
Return, O LORD, deliver my soul; Save me for Thy mercy's sake.
For in death there is no remembrance of Thee; In the nether-world who will give Thee thanks?
I am weary with my groaning; Every night make I my bed to swim; I melt away my couch with my tears.
Mine eye is dimmed because of vexation; It waxeth old because of all mine adversaries.
Depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity; For the LORD hath heard the voice of my weeping.
The LORD hath heard my supplication; The LORD receiveth my prayer.
All mine enemies shall be ashamed and sore affrighted; They shall turn back, they shall be ashamed suddenly.
Text: The Holy Scriptures, Jewish Publication Society (1917), public domain, via Sefaria.
✦ Connected Across Traditions
Divine Compassion & Mercy
Quran 1:1
“In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful.”
Luke 6:36
“Be ye therefore merciful, as your Father also is merciful.”
Snp 1.8 (trans. Bhikkhu Sujato)
“Even as a mother would protect with her life her child, her only child, so too for all creatures unfold a boundless heart.”
Guru Granth Sahib, Ang 1
“ik oankaar sat naam: one Creator, whose Name is Truth, beyond fear and enmity.”
Impermanence & Letting Go
Dhammapada 20:277 (trans. F. Max Müller)
“‘All created things perish,’ he who knows and sees this becomes passive in pain; this is the way to purity.”
Tao Te Ching 76 (trans. James Legge)
“Man at his birth is supple and weak; at his death, firm and strong. (So it is with) all things. Trees and plants, in their early growth, are soft and brittle; at their death, dry and withered.”
Ecclesiastes 3:1
“To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven.”
Bhagavad Gita, Chapter 2 (trans. Edwin Arnold)
“Nay, but as when one layeth His worn-out robes away, And taking new ones, sayeth, "These will I wear to-day!" So putteth by the spirit Lightly its garb of flesh, And passeth to inherit A residence afresh.”