Psalms 119:136
Rivers of waters run down mine eyes, because they keep not your law.
Updated King James Version
In The King James Version
Rivers of waters run down mine eyes, because they keep not thy law.
In Context
135Make your face to shine upon your servant; and teach me your statutes.
137Righteous are you, O LORD, and upright are your judgments.
Cross References
1 Samuel 15:11It repents me that I have set up Saul to be king: for he is turned back from following me, and has not performed my commandments. And it grieved Samuel; and he cried unto the LORD all night.
Psalms 119:53Horror has taken hold upon me because of the wicked that forsake your 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 all of you will not hear it, my soul shall weep in secret places for your pride; and mine eye shall weep sore, and run down with tears, because the LORD's flock is carried away captive.
Ezekiel 9:4And the LORD said unto him, Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark upon the foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry for all the abominations that be done in the midst thereof.
Romans 9:2That I have great heaviness and continual sorrow 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 →