My heart panteth, my strength faileth me: as for the light of mine eyes, it also is gone from me.
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Gill's Exposition
My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my sore,.... As if it was a plague sore, lest they should be infected with it; or because they could not bear the stench of his wounds, and the loathsomeness…
Barnes' Notes
My heart panteth - The word rendered “panteth,” in its original form, means properly to go about; to travel around; and then, to travel around as a merchant or pedlar, or for purposes of traffic: Gen…
The title of this psalm is very observable; it is a psalm to bring to remembrance; the 70th psalm, which was likewise penned in a day of affliction, is so entitled. It is designed, 1. To bring to his…
Cambridge Bible
panteth R.V. excellently, throbbeth.
as for the light of mine eyes&c. His eyes are dim and dull with weakness and weeping. Cp. Psa 6:7; Psa 13:3, note; Psa 31:9; Job 17:7; Lam 2:11.
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