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My soul faints for your salvation. I hope in your word.
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Fainting Yet Hoping
Commentators like Charles Spurgeon highlight the paradox in this verse: it is possible to feel faint from longing and exhaustion while simultaneously holding fast to hope. This validates the common Christian experience of feeling weak in the struggle of waiting, yet not despairing. Your hope is not in your own strength, but anchored in the reliability of God's Word.
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Psalms
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18th Century
Presbyterian
My soul faints for your salvation - The new division of the psalm, which begins here, is indicated by the Hebrew letter Kaph
19th Century
Anglican
CAPH.
Fainteth. —The same Hebrew word as fail in the next verse.
Baptist
My soul fainteth for thy salvation: but I hope in thy word.
The ship rocks, but the anchor holds; the singer is ready to faint, but …
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16th Century
Protestant
My soul hath fainted for thy salvation. The Psalmist suggests that, although worn out with continual grief and perceiving no end to his ca…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
(k) , CAPH.--The Eleventh Part .
Psalms 119:81
The psalmist sought deliverance from his sins, his enemies, and his fears. Hope deferred made him faint; his eyes failed from looking out for this …
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