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136Rivers of waters run down mine eyes, because they keep not thy law.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Oh 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!
And 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.
I beheld the transgressors, and was grieved; because they kept not thy word.
And let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelids gush out with waters.
It repenteth me that I have set up Saul to be king: for he is turned back from following me, and hath not performed my commandments. And it grieved Samuel; and he cried unto the LORD all night.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 136)Here we have David in sorrow. 1. It is a great sorrow, to such a degree that he weeps rivers of tears . Commonly, where there is a gracious heart, there is a weeping eye, in conformity to Christ, who was a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. David had prayed for comfort in God’s favour (Ps. 119:135), now he pleads that he was qualified for that comfort, and had need of it, for he was one of…
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