Psalms 119:136
Streams of water, have run down mine eyes, because men have not kept thy law.
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
Rivers of waters run down mine eyes, because they keep not thy law.
In Context
135Thy face, light thou up on thy servant, and teach me thy statutes.
137[ZADHE.] Righteous art thou, O Yahweh,—and, equitable, are thy regulations.
Cross References
1 Samuel 15:11I am grieved that I made Saul to be king, for he hath turned back from following me, and, my words, hath he not established. And it was vexing to Samuel, so that he made outcry unto Yahweh, all the night.
Psalms 119:53A raging heat, hath seized me, by reason of the lawless, who forsake thy law.
Jeremiah 9:1Oh that my head were waters, And mine eyes a fountain of tears,—That I might weep day and night, For the slain of the daughter of my people!
Jeremiah 13:17But if ye will not hear it, In secret places, shall my soul weep Because of the pride, And mine eye, shall flow over, and run down with tears, Because captive hath been taken the flock of Yahweh.
Ezekiel 9:4Then said Yahweh unto him. Pass along through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem,—and set thou a mark upon the foreheads of the men who are sighing and crying over all the abominations that are being done in her midst.
Romans 9:2That I have great grief and incessant travail 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 →