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28My soul melteth for heaviness: strengthen thou me according unto thy word.

Psalms 119:28 —

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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  • Psalms 22:14

    I 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.

  • Philippians 4:13

    I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.

  • Psalms 27:14

    Wait on the LORD: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the LORD.

  • 1 Peter 5:10

    But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you.

  • Zechariah 10:12

    And I will strengthen them in the LORD; and they shall walk up and down in his name, saith the LORD.

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 28-29)

Here is, 1. David’s representation of his own griefs: My soul melteth for heaviness , which is to the same purport with Ps. 119:25; My soul cleaveth to the dust . Heaviness in the heart of man makes it to melt, to drop away like a candle that wastes. The penitent soul melts in sorrow for sin, and even the patient soul may melt in the sense of affliction, and it is then its interest to pour out its…

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