Psalms 119:28
My soul droppeth away from grief: sustain me according to thy word.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
My soul melteth for heaviness: strengthen thou me according unto thy word.
In Context
27Cause me to understand the way of thy precepts, that I may meditate on thy wonders.
29The way of falsehood do thou remove from me, and grant me graciously thy law.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 33:25Iron and copper shall be thy bolts; and as thy [younger] days so shall thy old age be.
Joshua 2:24And they said unto Joshua, Truly the Lord hath given up into our hand all the country; for all the inhabitants of the country are already become faint-hearted because of us.
Psalms 22:14(22:15) Like water am I poured out, and all my bones are disjointed: my heart is become like wax, it is melted in the midst of my entrails.
Psalms 29:11The Lord will give strength unto his people: the Lord will bless his people with peace.
Isaiah 40:29He giveth to the faint strength; and to the powerless he imparteth much might.
Zechariah 10:12And I will strengthen them in the Lord, and in his name shall they ever walk, saith the 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 →