Psalms 119:81
My soul faints for your salvation. I hope in your word.
World English Bible
In The King James Version
My soul fainteth for thy salvation: but I hope in thy word.
In Context
80Let my heart be blameless toward your decrees, that I may not be disappointed.
82My eyes fail for your word. I say, “When will you comfort me?”
Cross References
Job 19:27whom I, even I, will see on my side. My eyes will see, and not as a stranger. “My heart is consumed within me.
Psalms 73:26My flesh and my heart fails, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.
Psalms 119:20My soul is consumed with longing for your ordinances at all times.
Psalms 119:41Let your loving kindness also come to me, LORD, your salvation, according to your word.
Psalms 119:43Don’t snatch the word of truth out of my mouth, for I put my hope in your ordinances.
Psalms 119:77Let your tender mercies 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 →