Psalm 6

Psalm 6
"O LORD, rebuke me not in thine anger"
Penitential Psalm
Psalm 6 in an illumination from the Hours of Étienne Chevalier (by Jean Fouquet, c. 1450).[a]
Other name"Domine ne in furore tuo arguas me"
Textattributed to David
LanguageHebrew (original)
Psalm 6
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BookBook of Psalms
Hebrew Bible partKetuvim
Order in the Hebrew part1
CategorySifrei Emet
Christian Bible partOld Testament
Order in the Christian part19

Psalm 6 is the sixth psalm of the Book of Psalms, beginning in English in the King James Version: "O LORD, rebuke me not in thine anger, neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure". In Latin, it is known as "Domine ne in furore tuo arguas me".[1] This penitential psalm is traditionally attributed to David.

The psalm forms a regular part of Jewish, Catholic, Lutheran, Anglican and other Protestant liturgies. It was paraphrased to a metred hymn in German, "Straf mich nicht in deinem Zorn" by Johann Georg Albinus, which Catherine Winkworth translated into "Not in anger, Mighty God". The psalm has been set to music by composers such as Heinrich Schütz, Johann Sebastian Bach, Max Reger, Jules Van Nuffel and Norma Wendelburg.


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  1. ^ "Parallel Latin/English Psalter / Psalmus 6". Archived from the original on 30 September 2017. Retrieved 19 September 2019.