Psalms 119:136
My eyes shed streams of tears because Your law is not obeyed.
Majority Standard Bible
In The King James Version
Rivers of waters run down mine eyes, because they keep not thy law.
In Context
135Make Your face shine upon Your servant, and teach me Your statutes.
137Righteous are You, O LORD, and upright are Your judgments.
Cross References
1 Samuel 15:11“I regret that I have made Saul king, for he has turned away from following Me and has not carried out My instructions.” And Samuel was distressed and cried out to the LORD all that night.
Psalms 119:53Rage has taken hold of me because of the wicked who reject Your law.
Jeremiah 9:1Oh, that my head were a spring of water, and my eyes a fountain of tears! I would weep day and night over the slain daughter of my people.
Jeremiah 13:17But if you do not listen, I will weep in secret because of your pride. My eyes will overflow with tears, because the LORD’s flock has been taken captive.
Ezekiel 9:4“Go throughout the city of Jerusalem,” said the LORD, “and put a mark on the foreheads of the men sighing and groaning over all the abominations committed there.”
Romans 9:2I have deep sorrow and unceasing anguish in my heart.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 119:136
135 Make thy face to shine upon thy servant; and teach me thy statutes. David here, as often as elsewhere, writes himself God's servant, a title he gloried in, though he was a king; now here, as became a good servant, 1. He is very ambitious of his Master's favour, accounting that his happiness and chief good. He asks not for corn and wine, for silver and gold, but, " Make thy face to shine upon thy servant; let me be accepted of thee, and let me know that I am so. Comfort me with the light of thy countenance in… Read the whole commentary →