Psalms 119:81
I am very tired/exhausted while I wait for you to save me from my enemies; but I confidently expect that you will tell me what you will do.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
My soul fainteth for thy salvation: but I hope in thy word.
In Context
Cross References
Job 19:27I will see him myself; I will see him with my own eyes! I am overwhelmed as I think about that!
Psalms 73:26My body and my mind may become very weak, but God, you continue to enable me to be strong; I belong to you forever.
Psalms 119:20In my inner being I strongly desire to know ◄your regulations/the rules that you have given to us► all the time.
Psalms 119:41Yahweh, show me that you faithfully love me, and rescue/save me, like you have said/promised that you would.
Psalms 119:43Always enable me to [LIT] speak your truth, because I have confidence in ◄your regulations/the rules that you have given us►.
Psalms 119:77Be merciful to me in order that I may continue to live, because I am delighted with your laws.
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 →