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4Thou holdest{H8804)} mine eyes waking: I am so troubled{H8738)} that I cannot speak{H8762)}.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
When I say, My bed shall comfort me, my couch shall ease my complaint; …
I am weary with my groaning; all the night make I my bed to swim; I water my couch with my tears.
So they sat down with him upon the ground seven days and seven nights, and none spake a word unto him: for they saw that his grief was very great.
On that night could not the king sleep, and he commanded to bring the book of records of the chronicles; and they were read before the king.
For now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea: therefore my words are swallowed up.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-10)We have here the lively portraiture of a good man under prevailing melancholy, fallen into and sinking in that horrible pit and that miry clay, but struggling to get out. Drooping saints, that are of a sorrowful spirit, may here as in a glass see their own faces. The conflict which the psalmist had with his griefs and fears seems to have been over when he penned this record of it; for he says (Ps.…
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