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“I cried with my whole heart; hear me, O Lord: I will keep thy statutes.
The mood of these eight verses is a somber one; the word cried is used three times throughout. David cries out: “I cried with my whole heart”, “I cried unto thee”, I prevented the dawning of the morning, and cried”.
“Observe here… [t]hat [David] was inward with God in pryaer; he prayed with his heart, and prayer is acceptable no further than the heart goes along with it. Lip-labour, if that be all, is lost labour.
He was importunate with God in prayer; he cried, as one in earnest, with fervour of affection and a holy vehemence and vigour of desire” (Henry 586).
As Matthew Henry points out, David’s prayers emanated from his heart. He directs everything within him toward petitioning God.
Works Cited
Henry, Matthew. “Psalm 119.” Matthew Henry’s Commentary On the Whole Bible: New Modern Edition. Volume 3, Hendrickson Publishers, Inc., March 1996.
Holy Bible: Giant Print with Study Aids. Dugan Publishers, Inc., 1984.
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