Psalms 119:81
My soul faints for Your salvation; I wait for Your word.
Majority Standard Bible
In The King James Version
My soul fainteth for thy salvation: but I hope in thy word.
In Context
80May my heart be blameless in Your statutes, that I may not be put to shame.
82My eyes fail, looking for Your promise; I ask, “When will You comfort me?”
Cross References
Job 19:27I will see Him for myself; my eyes will behold Him, and not as a stranger. How my heart yearns within me!
Psalms 73:26My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.
Psalms 119:20My soul is consumed with longing for Your judgments at all times.
Psalms 119:41May Your loving devotion come to me, O LORD, Your salvation, according to Your promise.
Psalms 119:43Never take Your word of truth from my mouth, for I hope in Your judgments.
Psalms 119:77May Your compassion come to me, that I may live, 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 →