Psalms 119:28. My soul melteth for heaviness:
The Hebrew word is "droppeth." The psalmist’s soul was like water dripping from the eaves of a house in time of rain. There are two sorts of sorrow, - the sorrow that rushes like a mighty torrent, and the sorrow, which is perhaps the worse of the two, which goes drip, drip, drip, drip, drip, drip, - like the constant dripping which wears away stones, - and which makes even the boldest heart to feel the attrition: "My soul melteth, dissolveth, droppeth, drippeth for heaviness:" -
Psalms 119:28. Strengthen thou me -
The psalmist does not ask to have the trouble removed; but he prays, "Help me to bear it." Whenever there is a thing that is hard, the right way to get through it is to get something that is still harder. If God will give us an adequate supply of his grace, hard times will not wear us away. So the psalmist prays, "Strengthen thou me" -
Psalms 119:28. According unto thy word.
See how he clings to that expression, "according unto thy word." He knows the power of that argument, and therefore he uses it again and again.
Psalms 119:28. My soul melteth for heaviness:
The Hebrew word is "droppeth." The psalmist’s soul was like water dripping from the eaves of a house in time of rain. There are two sorts of sorrow, - the sorrow that rushes like a mighty torrent, and the sorrow, which is perhaps the worse of the two, which goes drip, drip, drip, drip, drip, drip, - like the constant dripping which wears away stones, - and which makes even the boldest heart to feel the attrition: "My soul melteth, dissolveth, droppeth, drippeth for heaviness:" -
Psalms 119:28. Strengthen thou me -
The psalmist does not ask to have the trouble removed; but he prays, "Help me to bear it." Whenever there is a thing that is hard, the right way to get through it is to get something that is still harder. If God will give us an adequate supply of his grace, hard times will not wear us away. So the psalmist prays, "Strengthen thou me" -
Psalms 119:28. According unto thy word.
See how he clings to that expression, "according unto thy word." He knows the power of that argument, and therefore he uses it again and again.