Psalms 119:28
My soul has dropped from affliction, || Establish me according to Your word.
Literal Standard Version
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 Your precepts, || And I meditate on Your wonders.
29Turn aside the way of falsehood from me || And favor me with Your law.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 33:25Iron and bronze [are] your shoes, || And as your days—your strength.
Joshua 2:24and they say to Joshua, “Surely YHWH has given all the land into our hand; and also, all the inhabitants of the land have melted at our presence.”
Psalms 22:14I have been poured out as waters, || And all my bones have separated themselves, || My heart has been like wax, || It is melted in the midst of My bowels.
Psalms 29:11YHWH gives strength to His people, || YHWH blesses His people with peace!
Isaiah 40:29He is giving power to the weary, || And to those not strong He increases might.
Zechariah 10:12And I have made them mighty in YHWH, || And in His Name they walk up and down,” || A declaration of YHWH!
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 →