Psalms 119:81
My soul faints for thy salvation. I hope in thy word.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
My soul fainteth for thy salvation: but I hope in thy word.
In Context
80Let my heart be perfect in thy statutes that I be not put to shame.
82My eyes fail for thy word, while I say, When will thou comfort me?
Cross References
Job 19:27whom I, even I, shall see on my side, and my eyes shall behold, and not as a stranger. My heart is consumed within me.
Psalms 73:26My flesh and my heart fails, [but] God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.
Psalms 119:20My soul breaks for the longing that it has to thine ordinances at all times.
Psalms 119:41Let thy loving kindnesses also come to me, O LORD, even thy salvation, according to thy word.
Psalms 119:43And take not the word of truth utterly out of my mouth, for I have hoped in thine ordinances.
Psalms 119:77Let thy tender mercies come to me that I may live, for thy law is my delight.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 119:81
80 Let my heart be sound in thy statutes; that I be not ashamed. Here is, 1. David's prayer for sincerity, that his heart might be brought to God's statutes, and that it might be sound in them, not rotten and deceitful, that he might not rest in the form of godliness, but be acquainted with the subject to the power of it,—that he might be hearty and constant in religion, and that his soul might be in health. 2. His dread of the consequences of hypocrisy: That I be not ashamed. Shame is the portion of hypocrites,… Read the whole commentary →