Psalms 119:28

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 ( daalªpaah (H1811)), droppeth. Compare Job 16:20, the same Hebrew.

Related Commentaries of Psalms 119:28

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

My soul melteth - Margin, “droppeth.” The Hebrew word here employed - דלף dâlaph - means to drop, to drip, to distil, spoken of a house, as...
Arno Geneva Study Bible

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...
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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 beginnin...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

melteth . weepeth. Occurs only here. Job 16:20 ; Ecclesiastes 10:18 . word. As in Psalms 119:9 . Some codices read plural; but other codices,...
Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

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 comp...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

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...
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

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 comp...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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 s...
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

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 “slumbe...
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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 th...
Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

a Prayer for Understanding Psalms 119:17-32 These verses are full of yearning and unsatisfied desire. The soul breaks for longing, cleaves to t...
G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

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,...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

DALETH. These verses compose the fourth part of this divine Psalm. Whether David, the supposed writer of it, thus complains in himself; or whether i...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

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,...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

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...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

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 grac...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Melteth, like wax before the fire; it hath no strength nor consistency left in it, but consumeth or pineth away. For heaviness; through grief, pa...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

INTRODUCTION 1. Date and authorship. Some ascribe the authorship to “David, before his accession to the kingdom, in exile and peril ( Psalms 119:9 ;...
Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Psalms 119:9 . Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way? by taking heed thereto according to thy word. «Wherewithal shall a young man clean...
Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

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...
Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

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 s...
Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

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,...
Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

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 d...
Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

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...
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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 Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION This is an "alphabetic psalm" of a more stringent character than any other. It consists of twenty-two stanzas, each of eight verses,...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Daleth. The Grace of Being Confirmed in the Truth.
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

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...
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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:...
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Melteth — Like wax before the fire.

²⁸ My soul meltethd for heaviness: strengthen thou me according unto thy word.

Related Commentaries of Psalms 119:28

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Psalms 119:28