Psalm 6 Bible study: The voice of my weeping

The title says: "For the Chief Musician; on stringed instruments, upon the eight-stringed lyre. A Psalm by David" (6:1). It names no occasion. Then the psalmist speaks straight to the LORD: "LORD, don’t rebuke me in your anger, neither discipline me in your wrath" (6:1) (tap rebuke, discipline). He doesn't say why the LORD would be angry. Next he asks, "Have mercy on me, LORD, for I am faint. LORD, heal me, for my bones are troubled" (6:2) (tap mercy, heal, troubled). Then: "My soul is also in great anguish. But you, LORD—how long?" (6:3). He doesn't say how long what; the question is left open. In these three verses he says "LORD" four times, and the whole psalm names the LORD eight times in ten verses.

Psalms 6:8→leads toLuke 13:27

In Psalm 6 the one who wept turns to "all you workers of iniquity": "Depart from me, all you workers of iniquity, for the LORD has heard the voice of my weeping" (Psalm 6:8). Jesus, teaching on his way to Jerusalem (Luke 13:22), spoke of a door shut by "the master of the house" (Luke 13:25). To those outside who say, "We ate and drank in your presence, and you taught in our streets" (Luke 13:26), he will say, "I tell you, I don’t know where you come from. Depart from me, all you workers of iniquity" (Luke 13:27). In the whole WEB those last words come only there and in Psalm 6:8. In Matthew, Jesus says something like them of himself: "Then I will tell them, ‘I never knew you. Depart from me, you who work iniquity’" (Matthew 7:23). Jesus doesn't say he is quoting a psalm, so setting his words beside Psalm 6 is a reading. One reading hears Jesus taking up the psalm's words for the answer at the shut door. Another reads them as a way of speaking that Scripture has more than once, as in "Depart from me, you evildoers" (Psalm 119:115), without pointing to this psalm. In the psalm the words are spoken by one whose weeping the LORD has heard; in Luke they are spoken to those left outside. This line doesn't make the psalmist Jesus.

בָּהַלbahalsay ba-HAL

Brown-Driver-Briggs gives it, in the form used here, as "be disturbed, dismayed, terrified". Strong's: "to tremble inwardly (or palpitate)". The psalm has it three times, and the WEB gives it three ways: "my bones are troubled" (6:2), "My soul is also in great anguish" (6:3), and "May all my enemies be ashamed and dismayed" (6:10). The first two are the psalmist's own bones and soul; the last is his enemies. In 6:3 and in 6:10 the same word comes right after it, me'od, which Brown-Driver-Briggs gives as "muchness, force, abundance, exceedingly" (in 6:3 it is the WEB's great). The Psalms have the verb ten times in Hebrew, three of them here. Another is "terrify them in his wrath" (Psalm 2:5), and Joseph's brothers "were terrified at his presence" (Genesis 45:3).