Psalms 119:81
My soul faints for your salvation: but I hope in your word.
Updated King James Version
In The King James Version
My soul fainteth for thy salvation: but I hope in thy word.
In Context
80Let my heart be sound in your statutes; that I be not ashamed.
82Mine eyes fail for your word, saying, When will you comfort me?
Cross References
Job 19:27Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another; though my reins be consumed within me.
Psalms 73:26My flesh and my heart fails: but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever.
Psalms 119:20My soul breaks for the longing that it has unto your judgments at all times.
Psalms 119:41Let your mercies come also unto me, O LORD, even your salvation, according to your word.
Psalms 119:43And take not the word of truth utterly out of my mouth; for I have hoped in your judgments.
Psalms 119:77Let your tender mercies come unto 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 →