Psalms 119:28
I am very sad/sorrowful [IDM], with the result that I have no strength; enable me to be strong again, like you promised me that you would do.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
My soul melteth for heaviness: strengthen thou me according unto thy word.
In Context
29Prevent me from doing what is wrong, and be kind to me by teaching me your laws.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 33:25Their towns will be protected by high walls with gates that have bronze and iron bars; I desire/hope that they will be strong and secure/protected all the time that they are alive.
Joshua 2:24They said to Joshua, “We are sure that Yahweh is going to enable us to possess everything that is in that land. The people there are terrified [IDM] because of us.”
Psalms 22:14I am completely exhausted [MET], and all my bones are out of their joints/places. I no longer expect that God will save me; that expectation is gone completely, like wax that has melted away.
Psalms 29:11Yahweh enables his people to be strong, and he blesses them by causing things to go well for them.
Isaiah 40:29He strengthens [DOU] those who feel weak and tired.
Zechariah 10:12I will enable my people to be strong, and they will honor me and obey [IDM] me. That will surely happen because I, Yahweh, have said it.”
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 →