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My eye is consumed - The word here rendered “consumed” - עשׁשׁ ‛ âshêsh - means properly to fall in, to fall aw…
Charles Ellicott
CharlesEllicott
Consumed — i.e., sunken; literally, fallen away. The Septuagint uses the same word used to translate vexed
Charles Spurgeon
CharlesSpurgeon
Mine eye is consumed because of grief;
He had almost wept his eyes out; they grew red with his weeping, so that he could not see.
John Calvin
JohnCalvin
These forms of expression are hyperbolic, but it must not be imagined that David, like poets, exaggerates his sorrow; rather, he truly and simply d…
John Gill
JohnGill
Mine eye is consumed because of grief
Either by reason of the affliction he laboured under, which could not be joyou…
Matthew Henry
MatthewHenry
These verses speak the language of a heart truly humbled, of a broken and contrite spirit under great afflictions, sent to awaken conscience and mo…
Thomas Aquinas
ThomasAquinas
In the preceding psalm, David asked to be led in the way of justice because of his enemies.
Here, however, having fallen, he asks to be renew…
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Albert Barnes
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