Thou holdest mine eyes waking: I am so troubled that I cannot speak.
The psalm belongs with the songs that give voice to the sorrows and afflictions of the Hebrew captives in the Babylonian captivity. Its troubled, sleepless utterance reflects that exile experience of bondage far from home. It belongs especially to the latter part of that captivity under Belshazzar. That closing period was when persecution and distress pressed hardest upon the captives.
The psalm belongs with the songs that give voice to the sorrows and afflictions of the Hebrew captives in the Babylonian captivity. Its troubled, sleepless utterance reflects that exile experience of bondage far from home. It belongs especially to the latter part of that captivity under Belshazzar. That closing period was when persecution and distress pressed hardest upon the captives.