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A Slow, Dripping Sorrow
Commentators note the Hebrew for "melteth" means "to drip." The image is not a sudden breakdown but a slow, constant, wearing grief, like a dripping roof that eventually erodes stone. Albert Barnes and Charles Spurgeon contrast this with a sudden flood of sorrow, suggesting this persistent, quiet grief can be even more difficult to bear as it slowly saps one's strength.
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Albert Barnes
On Psalms 119:28
18th Century
Theologian
My soul melteth - Margin, “droppeth.” The Hebrew word here employed—דלף dâlaph—means to drop, to drip, to distill, spoken …
Charles Ellicott
On Psalms 119:28
19th Century
Bishop
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
On Psalm 119:27–28
19th Century
Preacher
Make me to understand the way of thy precepts: so shall I talk of thy wondrous works. My soul melteth for heaviness: strengthen thou me accordi…
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John Calvin
On Psalms 119:28
16th Century
Theologian
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
On Psalms 119:28
17th Century
Pastor
My soul melteth for heaviness
Like wax before the sun or fire; or flows like water; drops F1 , as the wor…
Matthew Henry
On Psalms 119:25–32
17th Century
Minister
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…