What does Psalms Chapter 6 say, and which statements belong to its speaker?

The Latin incipit is Domine, ne in furore. The separate heading identifies a penitent's prayer under God's scourge and the first penitential psalm. The inscription is unto the end, in verses, for David and the octave. The speaker asks not to be rebuked in indignation or chastised in wrath, asking mercy for weakness and healing because his bones are troubled. His soul is exceedingly troubled and he asks how long.

In the psalmist’s speech, he asks the Lord to turn, deliver his soul and save for mercy's sake. He says no one in death is mindful of God and asks who will confess in hell. He has labored in groanings and says every night he will wash his bed and water his couch with tears. His eye is troubled through indignation and he has grown old among enemies.

In the psalmist’s speech, he tells workers of iniquity to depart because the Lord heard his weeping, supplication and prayer. He wishes all enemies ashamed and greatly troubled, turned back and speedily ashamed; their actual defeat is not narrated. The separate octave note describes an eight-string instrument and Augustine's mystical reading of last resurrection and the world to come, an eighth day after seven mortal days, for which sinners prepare by bewailing sins on earth.