Psalms 119:136
My eyes run down with rills of water, because your law is not kept.
Open English Bible (US)
In The King James Version
Rivers of waters run down mine eyes, because they keep not thy law.
In Context
135Shine with your face on your servant, and teach me your statutes.
137Righteous are you, O Lord, and right are your ordinances.
Cross References
Psalms 119:53I am seized with glowing anger at the wicked who forsake your law.
Romans 9:2bears me out when I say that there is a great weight of sorrow on me and that my heart is never free from pain.
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 →