the Week of Proper 25 / Ordinary 30
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Psalms 119:28
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I weep with sorrow; encourage me by your word.
My soul melteth for heaviness: strengthen thou me according unto thy word.
My soul melts for heaviness: Strengthen me according to your word.
I am sad and tired. Make me strong again as you have promised.
I collapse from grief. Sustain me by your word!
My soul melteth for heaviness: strengthen thou me according to thy word.
My soul dissolves because of grief; Renew and strengthen me according to [the promises of] Your word.
My soul melts away for sorrow; strengthen me according to your word!
Mi soule nappide for anoye; conferme thou me in thi wordis.
My soul melts with sorrow; strengthen me according to Your word.
I am overcome with sorrow. Encourage me, as you have promised to do.
My soul melteth for heaviness: Strengthen thou me according unto thy word.
My soul is wasted with sorrow; give me strength again in keeping with your word
I am melting away from anxiety and grief; renew my strength, in keeping with your word.
My soul melteth for sadness: strengthen me according to thy word.
I am sad and tired. Say the word, and make me strong again.
My soul melteth away for heaviness; sustain me according unto Thy word.
My soule melteth for heauines: strengthen thou me according vnto thy word.
My soul cries because of sorrow. Give me strength because of Your Word.
My soul melts away for sorrow; strengthen me according to your word.
My soule melteth for heauinesse: raise mee vp according vnto thy worde.
My soul is vexed from meditation; quicken me according to thy word.
I am overcome by sorrow; strengthen me, as you have promised.
My soul weepeth itself away, for grief, Confirm thou me, according to thy word.
(118-28) My soul hath slumbered through heaviness: strengthen thou me in thy words.
My soul melts away for sorrow; strengthen me according to thy word!
My soule melteth away for very heauinesse: comfort thou me accordyng to thy worde.
My soul has slumbered for sorrow; strengthen thou me with thy words.
I am weary from grief;strengthen me through your word.
My soul is weary with sorrow. Strengthen me according to your word.
My soul melteth for heaviness: strengthen thou me according unto thy word.
My soul weeps because of grief; strengthen me according to your word.
My soul drops with grief; Lift me up according to Your Word.
My soul hath dropped from affliction, Establish me according to Thy word.
My soule melteth awaye for very heuynesse, o set me vp acordinge vnto thy worde.
My soul weeps because of grief; Strengthen me according to Your word.
My soul melts from heaviness; Strengthen me according to Your word.
My soul weeps because of grief; Strengthen me according to Your word.
My soul weeps because of grief;Raise me up according to Your word.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
soul: Psalms 22:14, Psalms 107:26, Joshua 2:11, Joshua 2:24
melteth: Heb. droppeth
strengthen: Psalms 27:14, Psalms 29:11, Deuteronomy 33:25, Isaiah 40:29, Isaiah 40:31, Zechariah 10:12, Ephesians 3:16, Philippians 4:13
Reciprocal: 1 Peter 1:6 - ye are
Gill's Notes on the Bible
My soul melteth for heaviness,.... Like wax before the sun or fire; or flows like water; drops a, as the word signifies, and dissolves into tears, through grief and sorrow for sins committed; or by reason of Satan's temptations, or divine desertions, or grievous troubles and afflictions; which cause heaviness, lie heavy, and press hard;
strengthen thou me according unto thy word; to oppose corruptions, withstand temptations, bear up under trials and afflictions, and do the will of God. And the word of God is a means of strengthening his people to do these things; it is the spiritual bread which strengthens man's heart, and in the strength of which, like Elijah, he walks many days, and goes from strength to strength: and there are many gracious words of promise, which may be pleaded with God to this purpose; that he will help, strengthen, and uphold his people; that he will renew their strength, and that as their day is their strength shall be.
a דלפה "stillavit"; Pagninus, Montanus; "distillet", Vatablus; "stillat", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator, Cocceius, Michaelis.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
My soul melteth - Margin, “droppeth.” The Hebrew word here employed - דלף dâlaph - means to drop, to drip, to distil, spoken of a house, as when the rain drops through the roof, Ecclesiastes 10:18; then, to shed tears, to weep, Job 16:20 - and this seems to be the meaning here. The idea of melting is not properly in the word, and the term weep would better express the meaning. His soul seemed to drop tears. It overflowed with tears. Yet there is an idea of abundant or constant weeping. It is not a gush of emotion, as when we say of one that he is “bathed in tears;” it is the idea of a steady flow or dropping of tears - slow, silent, but constant - as if the soul were dripping away or dissolving. Thus the idea is more striking and beautiful than that of melting. It is quiet but continuous grief that slowly wears away the soul. There are two kinds of sorrow:
(a) the one represented by floods of tears, like fierce torrents that sweep all away, and are soon passed;
(b) the other is the gentle dropping - the constant wearing - the slow attrition caused by inward grief, that secretly but certainly wears away the soul.
The latter is more common, and more difficult to be borne than the other. The Septuagint and the Latin Vulgate render this, “My soul slumbereth.”
For heaviness - This word means grief, sorrow, vexation. Proverbs 14:13; Proverbs 17:21. It is here silent grief; hidden sorrow. How many thus pine in secret, until life slowly wears away, and they sink to the grave.
Strengthen thou me - Give me strength to meet this constant wearing away - this slow work of sorrow. We need strength to bear great and sudden sorrow; we need it not less to bear that which constantly wears upon us; which makes our sleep uneasy; which preys upon our nerves, and slowly eats away our life.
According unto thy word - See Psalms 119:9, Psalms 119:25.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Psalms 119:28. My soul melteth — דלף dalaph signifies to distil, to drop as tears from the eye. As my distresses cause the tears to distil from my eyes, so the overwhelming load of my afflictions causes my life to ebb and leak out.
