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Psalms 119:28
28I am so sad that I feel very weak. Use your word to make me strong again.
Psalms 119:28 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)My soul melteth for heaviness: strengthen thou me according unto thy word.
- New International Version (NIV)My soul is weary with sorrow; strengthen me according to your word.
- English Standard Version (ESV)My soul melts away for sorrow; strengthen me according to your word!
- New King James Version (NKJV)My soul melts from heaviness; Strengthen me according to Your word.
Context of Psalms 119:28
26I told you what my life is like, and you answered me. Please teach me your laws. 27Help me to understand what your teaching means. Then I will think carefully about the great things that you do. I am so sad that I feel very weak. Use your word to make me strong again. 29Stop me from living in a wrong way. Please be kind to me, so that I know your Law. 30I have chosen to live in the right way. I will continue to obey your rules.
Read all of Psalms 119Psalms 119:28 word by word
דָּלְפָ֣ה נַ֭פְשִׁי מִתּוּגָ֑ה קַ֝יְּמֵ֗נִי כִּדְבָרֶֽךָ׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Psalms 119:28
- Psalms 22:14My strength has gone, like water that is poured away. My bones do not join together properly. I feel weak inside and hope has disappeared.
- Psalms 107:26The waves threw the ships up high in the air, then dropped them deep down. The danger made the sailors afraid, and they thought that they would die.
- Joshua 2:11When we heard what you had done, we were very frightened. We know that we are not strong enough to fight against you because the Lord, your God, is God. He rules everything in heaven and on earth.
- Psalms 27:14Wait for the Lord to help you! Be strong and brave. Yes, wait for the Lord to help you!
- Psalms 29:11The Lord makes his people strong. The Lord blesses his people with peace.
- Deuteronomy 33:25They will use iron and bronze to make the gates of their towns strong. May they be strong for as long as they live.
- Isaiah 40:29He makes tired people strong again. When people have become weak, he gives them more strength.
- Zechariah 10:12‘I will make my people strong. They will obey me because they love my name.’
- Ephesians 3:16I pray that God will cause you to be strong in your spirits. God has great and valuable things in heaven to help you. I pray that God's Spirit will help you with God's own power.
- Philippians 4:13I can do all these things because Christ makes me strong.
Commentaries on Psalms 119:28
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 28My soul melteth - דלף dalaph sigifies 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.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 28My 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…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 25-32Verses 25-32 While the souls of the children of this world cleave to the earth as their portion, the children of light are greatly burdened, because of the remains of carnal affections in their hearts. It is unspeakable comfort to a gracious soul, to think with what tenderness all its complaints are received by a gracious God. We can talk of the wonders of redeeming love, when we understand the way of God's precepts, and walk in that way. The penitent…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 25-32Daleth (ד) is the fourth letter of the Hebrew alphabet. It marks the beginning of the next section of this psalm. The poet feels deep pain and sadness but asks the Lord to give him strength. He wants to follow the Lord. Suffering and death may result from the Lord’s discipline (Psalms 118:17–18; 119:67, 71, 75), but his instruction renews the weary soul (see 119:12).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 28-3228-32. In order to adhere to His word, we must seek deliverance from temptations to sin as well as from despondency. enlarge--or, "expand" my heart--with gracious affections. HE. (Psa 119:33-40).Read the comment
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Commentaries on Psalms 119
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- The Treasury of David
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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