Psalms 119:28
My soul melts for heaviness: strengthen you me according unto your word.
Updated King James Version
In The King James Version
My soul melteth for heaviness: strengthen thou me according unto thy word.
In Context
27Make me to understand the way of your precepts: so shall I talk of your wondrous works.
29Remove from me the way of lying: and grant me your law graciously.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 33:25Your shoes shall be iron and brass; and as your days, so shall your strength be.
Joshua 2:24And they said unto Joshua, Truly the LORD has delivered into our hands all the land; for even all the inhabitants of the country do faint because of us.
Psalms 22:14I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels.
Psalms 29:11The LORD will give strength unto his people; the LORD will bless his people with peace.
Isaiah 40:29He gives power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increases strength.
Zechariah 10:12And I will strengthen them in the LORD; and they shall walk up and down in his name, says the LORD.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 119:27-28
26 I have declared my ways, and thou heardest me: teach me thy statutes. 27 Make me to understand the way of thy precepts: so shall I talk of thy wondrous works. We have here, 1. The great intimacy and freedom that had been between David and his God. David had opened his case, opened his very heart to God: " I have declared my ways, and acknowledged thee in them all, have taken thee along with me in all my designs and enterprises." Thus Jephthah uttered all his words, and Hezekiah spread his letters, before the… Read the whole commentary →