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You hold my eyelids open. I am so troubled that I can`t speak.
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God-Centered Anguish
The psalmist attributes his sleepless nights and speechless sorrow directly to God. Commentators explain this isn't just circumstantial sadness, but a profound spiritual crisis where troubling thoughts about God Himself are the source of the torment. This raw honesty shows that Scripture gives voice to even our most difficult struggles with faith.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
You hold my eyes waking - literally, “You hold the watchings of my eyes.” Gesenius (Lexicon) translates the Hebrew word rendered “w…
19th Century
Anglican
Thou holdest mine eyes waking. —Rather, You have closed the guards of my eyes—that is, my eyelids. The Authorise…
Baptist
Selah. Thou holdest mine eyes waking: I am so troubled that I cannot speak. I have considered the days of old, the years of ancient times.…
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16th Century
Protestant
Thou hast held the watches of my eyes. This verse is to the same effect as the preceding. The Psalmist affirms that he spent whole nights …
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
You hold my eyes waking Or, "the watches", or rather "keepers of the eyes" F13 ; the eyebrows, which prot…
Days of trouble must be days of prayer; when God seems to have withdrawn from us, we must seek Him until we find Him. In the day of his trouble, th…
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