“ My soul meltethd for heaviness: strengthen thou me according unto thy word. ”
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, Ecclesiaste...
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.
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. a...
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...
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...
My soul melteth for heaviness: strengthen thou me according unto thy word. My soul melteth - דלף dalaph sigifies to distil, to drop as tears from the eye. As my distresses cause the tears to distil f...
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...
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" - litera...
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...
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,...
Psalms 119:1-176 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 i...
a Prayer for Understanding Psalms 119:17-32 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...
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 sign...
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 decl...
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...
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...
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...
28 My soul melteth for heaviness: strengthen thou me according unto thy word. 29 Remove from me the way of lying: and grant me thy law graciously. Here is, 1. David's representatio...
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 princip...
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 ; Psalms 119:141...
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...
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 mos...
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...
Daleth. The Grace of Being Confirmed in the Truth.
Deuteronomy 33:25 ; Ephesians 3:16 ; Isaiah 40:29 ; Isaiah 40:31 ; Joshua 2:11 ; Joshua 2:24 ; Philippians 4:13 ; Psalms 107:26 ; Psalms 22:14 ; Psalms 27:14 ; Psalms 29:11 ; Zechariah 10...
Melteth — Like wax before the fire.