Psalms 119:28
My soul melteth for sadness: strengthen me according to thy word.
Darby Translation
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, and I will meditate upon thy wondrous works.
29Remove from me the way of falsehood, and graciously grant me thy law.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 33:25Iron and brass shall be thy bolts; And thy rest as thy days.
Joshua 2:24And they said to Joshua, Of a surety Jehovah has given the whole land into our hands, and even all the inhabitants of the land faint because of us.
Psalms 22:14I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my heart is become like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels.
Psalms 29:11Jehovah will give strength unto his people; Jehovah will bless his people with peace.
Isaiah 40:29He giveth power to the faint; and to him that hath no might he increaseth strength.
Zechariah 10:12And I will strengthen them in Jehovah; and they shall walk in his name, saith Jehovah.
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 →