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My heart throbs. My strength fails me. As for the light of my eyes, it also is gone from me.
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The Anatomy of Anguish
Commentators explain that the psalmist is describing a total physical and emotional collapse. The 'panting heart' refers to severe palpitations from anxiety, failing strength suggests life is ebbing away, and the loss of 'light' can mean both dimming vision and a spiritual darkness where God feels distant. The verse vividly portrays the all-encompassing nature of deep suffering.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
My heart panteth - The word rendered “panteth,” in its original form, means properly to go about; to travel around; and then, to travel ar…
19th Century
Anglican
Panteth. —Better, palpitates. The Hebrew word, like palpitate, expresses the beating of the heart by its sound, …
Baptist
My heart panteth,
That is the best sort of prayer in all the world, when there are no words, but in silence there is a panting and …
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16th Century
Protestant
My heart has turned round. The verb David uses here signifies to travel or wander here and there; but here it is taken f…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
My heart panteth Or "goes about" F13 ; runs here and there, and finds no rest; as Aben Ezra interprets th…
Nothing will trouble the heart of a good person as much as the sense of God's anger. The way to keep the heart quiet is to keep ourselves in the lo…
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13th Century
Catholic
1. Previously, the psalmist pleaded for divine help: judge, O Lord, those who wrong me (Psalms 34:1). He showe…
