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Psalm 6:7

My eye wastes away because of grief. It grows old because of all my adversaries.

5For in death there is no memory of you. In Sheol, who shall give you thanks?
6I am weary with my groaning. Every night I flood my bed. I drench my couch with my tears.
7My eye wastes away because of grief. It grows old because of all my adversaries.
8Depart from me, all you workers of iniquity, for the LORD has heard the voice of my weeping.
9The LORD has heard my supplication. The LORD accepts my prayer.
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The eye that grows old under grief shows how sorrow and opposition can wear a person down in ways others may see.

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Where else Scripture says this

7 passages readers most often link with this verse, and the thread each one shares with it.

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Psalm 31:9Have mercy on me, LORD, for I am in distress. My eye, my soul, and my body waste away with grief.Both verses describe an eye wasting away with grief, and Psalm 31 extends that distress to soul and body.
Psalm 38:10My heart throbs. My strength fails me. As for the light of my eyes, it has also left me.Failing eyes mark bodily distress in both passages, with Psalm 38 also naming a throbbing heart and failing strength.
Lamentations 5:17For this our heart is faint. For these things our eyes are dim:Dim eyes in Lamentations and an eye wasting away in Psalm 6 make suffering visible in the body.
Job 17:7My eye also is dim by reason of sorrow. All my members are as a shadow.Job and the psalm's speaker both describe sorrow through its effect on the eye.
Lamentations 2:11My eyes fail with tears. My heart is troubled. My bile is poured on the earth, because of the destruction of the daughter of my people, because the young …Both passages describe eyes failing under sorrow, while Lamentations names the destruction and suffering of children behind its tears.
Psalm 88:9My eyes are dim from grief. I have called on you daily, LORD. I have spread out my hands to you.Grief weakens the eyes in both verses, and Psalm 88 pairs that distress with repeated prayer to the LORD.
Psalm 32:3When I kept silence, my bones wasted away through my groaning all day long.Both passages describe bodily wasting, though Psalm 32 connects it with keeping silence and groaning rather than grief and adversaries.
Where this verse fits

Grief. injustice and anger.

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Tell God where grief has worn you down

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Encouragement

You do not have to hide grief's toll when you pray. The psalm speaks of an eye worn down by sorrow within a prayer YHWH hears.

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Cross-reference data from OpenBible.info (CC BY). Scripture from the World English Bible (public domain). Arc diagram after Chris Harrison and Christoph Römhild (2007).