Psalms 119:81
CAPH My soul is wasted with desire for your salvation: but I have hope in your word.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
My soul fainteth for thy salvation: but I hope in thy word.
In Context
80Let all my heart be given to your orders, so that I may not be put to shame.
82My eyes are full of weariness with searching for your word, saying, When will you give me comfort?
Cross References
Job 19:27Whom I will see on my side, and not as one strange to me. My heart is broken with desire.
Psalms 73:26My flesh and my heart are wasting away: but God is the Rock of my heart and my eternal heritage.
Psalms 119:20My soul is broken with desire for your decisions at all times.
Psalms 119:41VAU Let your mercies come to me, O Lord, even your salvation, as you have said.
Psalms 119:43Take not your true word quite out of my mouth; for I have put my hope in your decisions.
Psalms 119:77Let your gentle mercies come to me, so that I may have life; for your 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 →