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

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Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes

AlbertBarnes

18th Century
Presbyterian
18th Century

My soul melteth - Margin, “droppeth.” The Hebrew word here employed—דלף dâlaph—means to drop, to drip, to distill, spoken …

Charles Ellicott

Charles Ellicott

CharlesEllicott

19th Century
Anglican
19th Century

Melts —The Hebrew word is used in Ecclesiastes 10:18 of a dripping roof of a house; in Job 16:20 of weeping. The Septuagint and Vu…

Charles Spurgeon

Charles Spurgeon

CharlesSpurgeon

19th Century
Baptist
19th Century

My soul cleaves to the dust: quicken me according to your word. I have declared my ways, and you heard me: teach me your statutes. Make me to u…

John Calvin

John Calvin

JohnCalvin

16th Century
Protestant
16th Century

My soul drops away for grief. Previously, he said that his soul cleaved to the dust, so now, in almost the same manner, he complains that …

John Gill

John Gill

JohnGill

17th Century
Reformed Baptist
17th Century

My soul melteth for heaviness
Like wax before the sun or fire; or flows like water; drops F1 , as the wor…

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry

MatthewHenry

17th Century
Presbyterian
17th Century

While the souls of the children of this world cling to the earth as their portion, the children of light are greatly burdened because of the remain…

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