Homilist Psalm 119:81-88 My soul faints for your salvation: but I hope in your word.… I. PAINFUL MOODS OF SOUL. 1. Painful yearning (vers. 81-83). (1) The general objects of this yearning. (a) A sense of security. (b) A sense of comfort. (2) The distress of this yearning. (a) Weakening (Hebrews 12:3) (b) Anxious (ver. 82). "Hope deferred," etc. (c) Consuming (ver. 83). 2. Anxious questioning (ver. 84). (1) The shortness of life. "How many are the days of Thy servant?" This means how few, how brief. Why should this life be so short in a world where there are such wonderful results to achieve, and with a being who has immeasurable faculties to develop? (2) The advent of retribution. 3. A sense of injustice (ver. 85). His persecutors were — (1) Crafty. (2) Wicked. (3) Cruel. II. ANTIDOTES. 1. Firm confidence in the Divine Word (vers. 81, 83, 87). 2. A spiritual quickening of soul (ver. 88). (Homilist.) Parallel Verses KJV: CAPH. My soul fainteth for thy salvation: but I hope in thy word.WEB: My soul faints for your salvation. I hope in your word. |
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