Psalms 119:136
Streams of tears run down my eyes, because they don’t observe your law.
World English 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 on your servant. Teach me your statutes.
137You are righteous, LORD. Your judgments are upright.
Cross References
1 Samuel 15:11“It grieves me that I have set up Saul to be king, for he has turned back from following me, and has not performed my commandments.” Samuel was angry; and he cried to the LORD all night.
Psalms 119:53Indignation has taken hold on me, because of the wicked who forsake your law.
Jeremiah 9:1Oh that my head were waters, and my eyes a spring of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!
Jeremiah 13:17But if you will not hear it, my soul will weep in secret for your pride. My eye will weep bitterly, and run down with tears, because the LORD’s flock has been taken captive.
Ezekiel 9:4The LORD said to him, “Go through the middle of the city, through the middle of Jerusalem, and set a mark on the foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry over all the abominations that are done within it.”
Romans 9:2that I have great sorrow and unceasing pain 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 →