“... Oswald Loretz notes that von Soden’s interpretation corre- sponds with an Ugaritic parallel in KTU 1.14 i.28–30:39 tntkn . udmʿth his tears are poured forth km . ṯqlm . arṣh like shekels on the ground km ḫmšt . mṭth like five-weight shekels on the couch Kirta moistens his bed with tears. The psalmist uses stronger imagery that exag- gerates the volume of tears, but the image of weeping on a bed or couch is common to both texts. Like the speaker in Ps 6, Kirta weeps at night and finds divine help.40 Kirta falls asleep on his tear-soaked bed and receives a vision from El telling him how to get an heir. The speaker in Ps 6 expresses confidence in divine assistance in verses 9–11 but provides no explanation for this change of tone. Nighttime is elsewhere identified as a time for weeping (Ps 42:4; Lam 1:2; 2:18) and prayer generally (Pss 16:7; 17:3; 42:9; 77:7–10; 88:1–2; 92:3; 119:55, 62; 134:1). Psalm 30:6 identifies night as a time for weeping and morning as a time for rejoicing, and the theme of salvation in the morning appears in several texts (Pss 5:4; 46:6; 88:14; 90:14).41 Although night and day may contrast like sorrow and joy, some texts combine night and day to emphasize the continuity and dura- tion of suffering and weeping (Ps 42:4; Lam 2:18). ...”