Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary
Psalms 119:81
CAPH Fainteth, with longing desire, and earnest expectation, and hope deferred, and hitherto disappointed.
CAPH Fainteth, with longing desire, and earnest expectation, and hope deferred, and hitherto disappointed.
LETTER כ CAPH. - _ELEVENTH DIVISION_ Verse Psalms 119:81. _MY SOUL FAINTETH FOR THY SALVATION_] I have longed so incessantly after _thy salvation _- the complete purification and restoration of my so...
MY SOUL FAINTETH FOR THY SALVATION - The new division of the psalm, which begins here, is indicated by the Hebrew letter _Kaph_ (כ _k_), equivalent to “k” or “c” (hard). The word here rendered “fainte...
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...
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 fainteth for thy salvation: but I hope in thy word. MY SOUL FAINTETH FOR THY SALVATION - pineth for it (; ). (BUT) I HOPE IN THY WORD. Though sorely tempted, I do not give up my hope....
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)....
CAPH. (81) FAINTETH. — The same Hebrew word as _fail_ in the next verse....
כָּלְתָ֣ה לִ תְשׁוּעָתְךָ֣ נַפְשִׁ֑י לִ דְבָרְךָ֥...
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...
THE WORD THAT STANDS FAST Psalms 119:81 They persecute wrongfully; they dig pits; they have almost consumed; they have waited to destroy; but thy Word abides steadfast. The driven soul flees to the...
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...
CAPH. My soul (a) fainteth for thy salvation: [but] I hope in thy word. (a) Though my strength fails me, yet my soul groans and sighs, resting still in your word....
CAPH. The opening of this portion is also very beautiful, in reference to the Lord Jesus, who waited with longing expectation for the time of his being manifested unto Israel. Hence we find him, in th...
81._My soul hath fainted for thy salvation. _The Psalmist intimates that, although worn out with continual grief, and perceiving no issue to his calamities, yet trouble and weariness had not produced...
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...
k, CAPH.--THE ELEVENTH PART. Ver. 81. CAPH. MY SOUL FAINTETH FOR THY SALVATION, Either for temporal salvation and deliverance from enemies; which, being promised, was expected by him from the Lord; b...
CAPH. My soul fainteth for thy salvation: [but] I hope in thy word. Ver. 81. _My soul fainteth for thy salvation_] Saying, as those good souls, Jeremiah 8:20, "The harvest is past, the summer is ende...
_CAPH._ Psalms 119:81. _My soul fainteth for thy salvation_ With longing desire, earnest expectation, and hope deferred. _Mine eyes fail_ With looking hither and thither, and to thee for help. _I am b...
My soul fainteth for Thy salvation, in the extreme longing brought about by a further attack of sorrow; BUT I HOPE IN THY WORD, he refuses to let go this trust....
_ Caph._ The Consolation of God's Word in the Midst of Great Troubles....
81-88 The psalmist sought deliverance from his sins, his foes, and his fears. Hope deferred made him faint; his eyes failed by looking out for this expected salvation. But when the eyes fail, yet fai...
Psalms 119:81 soul H5315 faints H3615 (H8804) salvation H8668 hope H3176 (H8765) word H1697 fainteth -...
Psalms 119:81. _My soul fainteth for thy salvation: but I hope in thy word._ The ship rocks, but the anchor holds; the singer is ready to faint, but he is not ready to despair. He knows where his res...
Psalms 119:81. _My soul fainteth for thy salvation: but I hope in thy word._ The psalmist was so full of longings, hungerings, thirstings, for God's salvation that he had come even to faintness throu...
In this Psalm we have, as it were, notes from David's pocket book. Psalms 119:73. _Thy hands have made me and fashioned me: give me understanding, that I may learn thy commandments._ This is a very...
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...
_My soul fainteth for Thy salvation: but I hope in Thy Word._ PAINFUL SOUL MOODS AND THEIR ANTIDOTES I. Painful moods of soul. 1. Painful yearning (Psalms 119:81). (1) The general objects of this...
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...
Psalms 119:20; Psalms 119:40; Psalms 42:1; Psalms 42:2; Psalms 73:26
Fainteth — With long desire and earnest expectation....