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My tears have been my meat - The word translated 'tears' in this place is in the singular number and literally means weeping. . The…
Charles Ellicott
CharlesEllicott
My tears. — Compare Psalms 80:5; Psalms 102:9; and Ovid, Metamorphoses 10.75, “ Cura dolorque animi lacrimaeque alimenta fu…
Charles Spurgeon
CharlesSpurgeon
When shall I come and appear before God? My tears have been my meat day and night, while they continually say unto me, Where is thy God?
John Calvin
JohnCalvin
My tears have been my bread. Here the Psalmist mentions another sharp, piercing shaft with which the wicked and malevolent grievously woun…
John Gill
JohnGill
My tears have been my meat day and night
That is, he could not eat for sorrow, like Hannah, [Reference 1…
Matthew Henry
MatthewHenry
The psalmist looked to the Lord as his chief good and set his heart upon Him accordingly; casting anchor in this way at first, he rides out the sto…
Thomas Aquinas
ThomasAquinas
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This is the fifth group of ten in the first fifty psalms; it is ordered to implore help against present evils.
This is done throug…
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Albert Barnes
AlbertBarnes