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Psalms 119:28
My soul melteth for heaviness, is dissolved in the heat of affliction; strengthen Thou me according unto Thy Word, setting him upright, so that he may walk with a firm tread and fear no dangers.
My soul melteth for heaviness, is dissolved in the heat of affliction; strengthen Thou me according unto Thy Word, setting him upright, so that he may walk with a firm tread and fear no dangers.
Verse Psalms 119:28. _MY SOUL MELTETH_] דלף _dalaph_ signifies _to distil_, to _drop_ as _tears from the eye_. As my distresses cause the _tears_ to _distil_ from my eyes, so the overwhelming load of...
MY SOUL MELTETH - Margin, “droppeth.” The Hebrew word here employed - דלף _dâlaph_ - means to drop, to drip, to distil, spoken of a house, as when the rain drops through the roof, Ecclesiastes 10:18;...
Psalms 119 The Law Written on Their Hearts and the Praise of the Word This is the longest and most perfect Psalm in the whole collection. It is an alphabetical acrostic. It is composed of 22 section...
CXIX. PRAISE OF THE LAW. This is the longest and most artificial Ps. in the whole collection. It is divided into twenty-two strophes, each beginning with one of the twenty-two letters of the Heb. alph...
MELTETH. weepeth. Occurs only here. Job 16:20; Ecclesiastes 10:18. WORD. As in Psalms 119:9. Some codices read plural; but other codices, with Septuagint and Vulgate, read "by (or in) thy words" (plu...
MY SOUL MELTETH, &C.— Or, _My soul droppeth for heaviness; raise thou me,_ &c. It has been thought by some, that David utters this sad complaint in compunction for the guilt of his supposed deceit, an...
PSALMS 119 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE Jehovah's Will in Relation to Human Character and Conduct, celebrated in Twenty-two Alphabetical Stanzas, and by the aid of Eight Comprehensive Synonyms. ANALYSIS (The...
My soul melteth for heaviness: strengthen thou me according unto thy word. MY SOUL MELTETH FOR HEAVINESS - owing to my sufferings, notwithstanding my adherence to thy Word. "Melteth" - literally ...
119:28 me (g-7) Others translate, 'raise me up.'...
The longest Ps. and the best example of an alphabetical Ps. There are in it twenty-two stanzas; each of the 8 vv. of each stanza commences with the same Hebrew letter. The subject is practically the s...
Psalms 107:150 _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ THE WORD OF GOD PSALMS 119 JESUS SAID, "IF YOU LOVE ME YOU WILL OBEY ME" (JOHN 14:15)....
MELTETH — The Hebrew word is used in Ecclesiastes 10:18 of a dripping roof of a house; in Job 16:20 of weeping. The LXX. and Vulg. have “slumbered,” which suits far better with the next clause, which...
דָּלְפָ֣ה נַ֭פְשִׁי מִ תּוּגָ֑ה קַ֝יְּמֵ֗נִי כִּ...
Psalms 119:1 IT is lost labour to seek for close continuity or progress in this psalm. One thought pervades it-the surpassing excellence of the Law; and the beauty and power of the psalm lie in the un...
A PRAYER FOR UNDERSTANDING Psalms 119:17 These verses are full of yearning and unsatisfied desire. The soul breaks for longing, cleaves to the dust, and melts for heaviness. We are reminded of the co...
Any dealing with this psalm must necessarily be general and not particular. It has been called the psalm of the Law, not inaccurately; but the term, "The Law," should be understood in its widest signi...
My soul melteth for heaviness: strengthen thou me according unto thy (c) word. (c) If God did not maintain us by his word, our life would drop away like water....
DALETH. These verses compose the fourth part of this divine Psalm. Whether David, the supposed writer of it, thus complains in himself; or whether it means the Son of David, who in another part declar...
28._My soul droppeth away for grief _As a little before he said that his soul cleaved to the dust, so now, almost in the same manner, he complains that it melted away with grief. Some are of opinion t...
Psalms 119 is in general the law written in the heart. This gives it an important place in the series of psalms. It is found distinctly connected too with Israel's sorrows in the last days and their p...
MY SOUL MELTETH FOR HEAVINESS,.... Like wax before the sun or fire; or flows like water; drops a, as the word signifies, and dissolves into tears, through grief and sorrow for sins committed; or by re...
My soul melteth for heaviness: strengthen thou me according unto thy word. Ver. 28. _My soul melteth_] Heb. droppeth away like water; I weep out my life, together with my grief. _ Strengthen thou me...
_My soul melteth_ Like wax before the fire, through godly sorrow for sin; or sinks under the weight of my affliction. _Strengthen thou me_ That so I may bear my burdens patiently and cheerfully, and m...
MELTETH: _ Heb._ droppeth...
25-32 While the souls of the children of this world cleave to the earth as their portion, the children of light are greatly burdened, because of the remains of carnal affections in their hearts. It i...
MELTETH, like wax before the fire; it hath no strength nor consistency left in it, but consumeth or pineth away. FOR HEAVINESS; through grief, partly for my extreme danger and misery; and principally...
Psalms 119:28 soul H5315 melts H1811 (H8804) heaviness H8424 Strengthen H6965 (H8761) word H1697 soul -...
By the help of God's Holy Spirit, this psalm may serve for the purposes of self-examination, for we may ask ourselves as we read, «Do I feel in that way? Are my prayers like those of this good man? Is...
Psalms 119:25. _My soul cleaveth unto the dust: quicken thou me according to thy word._ «I feel heavy, unhappy, dull: ‘My soul cleaveth unto the dust.' Or I feel worldly, lethargic, lifeless: ‘My sou...
Psalms 119:25. _My soul cleaveth unto the dust:_ «It sticks to it as though it were glued to it; my soul cannot be lifted up, at least by myself, out of its sadness, and its earthiness.» The psalmist...
Psalms 119:21. _Thou hast rebuked the proud that are cursed, which do err from thy commandments._ Wherever there is pride in the heart, there is sure to be error in the life. A proud man is wrong, to...
Psalms 119:17. _Deal bountifully with thy servant, that I may live, and keep thy word._ O Lord, I am thy servant; yet, I pray thee, do not pay me wages according to my deserts, but according to the g...
Psalms 119:9. _Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way? by taking heed thereto according to thy word._ «Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way?» A vital and solemn question. His way is f...
CONTENTS: The excellency and usefulness of the divine revelation set forth and exhortation to all to make it their meditation and to be governed by it. CHARACTERS: God, Psalmist. CONCLUSION: Great b...
That David was the author of this psalm, no one ever doubted. It is divided into twenty two octo-distichs, having a letter of the Hebrew alphabet at the head of each distich; and the couplets are most...
PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 119:1. This psalm celebrates the gift of God’s law as the perfect guide for life. Its theme is echoed in Psalms 19:1 and in such wisdom psa
INTRODUCTION 1. Date and authorship. Some ascribe the authorship to “David, before his accession to the kingdom, in exile and peril (Psalms 119:9; Psalms 119:23; Psalms 119:46;...
EXPOSITION This is an "alphabetic psalm" of a more stringent character than any other. It consists of twenty-two stanzas, each of eight verses, every verse in each stanza beginning with its own proper...
Now as we get to Psalms 119:1-176, it is an extremely difficult psalm for exposition, because each section seems to be more or less independent of in itself, and each verse, many times, almost indepen...
Deuteronomy 33:25; Ephesians 3:16; Isaiah 40:29; Isaiah 40:31;...
Melteth — Like wax before the fire....