When my soul fainted within me I remembered the LORD: and my prayer came in unto thee, into thine holy temple.
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Gill's Exposition
They that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy. They that worship idols, who are nothing, mere vanity and lies, and deceive those that serve them, these forsake the God of their lives, and…
Barnes' Notes
When my sold fainted - , literally “was covered, within me,” was dizzied, overwhelmed. The word is used of actual faintness from heat, Jon 4:8. thirst, Amo 8:13. exhaustion, Isa 51:20. when a film…
Adam Clarke
When my soul fainted - When I had given up all hope of life.
My prayer came in unto thee - Here prayer is personified, and is represented as a messenger going from the distressed, and entering into…
Cambridge Bible
fainted Lit., covered itself; with reference to the film and darkness that comes over eye and mind in fainting and exhaustion. Comp. Psa 142:3; Psa 107:5, where the same Heb. word occurs.
thine holy…
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