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- Chapter 69
- Verse 3
I am weary of my crying: my throat is dried: mine eyes fail while I wait for my God.
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Gill's Exposition
I am weary of my crying,.... In his distress; when, bearing the punishment both of loss and sense, he cried unto God; he prayed earnestly, with great intenseness and fervency of spirit; he offered…
Barnes' Notes
I am weary of my crying - The word “crying” here does not mean weeping, or shedding tears, but calling upon God for help. He had grown weary; his strength had been exhausted in the act of calling upon…
In these verses David complains of his troubles, intermixing with those complaints some requests for relief.
I. His complaints are very sad, and he pours them out before the Lord, as one that hoped…
Cambridge Bible
He is worn out and exhausted in mind and body by the prolonged strain of prayer unanswered. Cp. Psa 22:1-2; Psa 22:15; Psa 6:7; Jer 45:3; Psa 119:82; Psa 119:123; Lam 2:11; Lam 4:17. For I am weary…
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