Psalms 119:28
My soul melts for heaviness. Strengthen thou me according to thy word.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
My soul melteth for heaviness: strengthen thou me according unto thy word.
In Context
27Make me to understand the way of thy precepts, so I shall meditate on thy wondrous works.
29Remove from me the way of falsehood, and grant me thy law graciously.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 33:25Thy bars shall be iron and brass, and as thy days, so shall thy strength be.
Joshua 2:24And they said to Joshua, Truly LORD has delivered into our hands all the land, and moreover all the inhabitants of the land melt away before us.
Psalms 22:14I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint. My heart is like wax; it is melted within me.
Psalms 29:11LORD will give strength to his people. LORD will bless his people with peace.
Isaiah 40:29He gives power to the faint. And to him who has no might he increases strength.
Zechariah 10:12And I will strengthen them in LORD, and they shall walk up and down in his name, says LORD.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 119:27-28
26 I have declared my ways, and thou heardest me: teach me thy statutes. 27 Make me to understand the way of thy precepts: so shall I talk of thy wondrous works. We have here, 1. The great intimacy and freedom that had been between David and his God. David had opened his case, opened his very heart to God: " I have declared my ways, and acknowledged thee in them all, have taken thee along with me in all my designs and enterprises." Thus Jephthah uttered all his words, and Hezekiah spread his letters, before the… Read the whole commentary →