10<\/strong>. panteth<\/em> ] R.V. excellently, throbbeth.<\/p>\n as for the light of mine eyes<\/em> &c.] His eyes are dim and dull with weakness and weeping. Cp. Psa 6:7<\/span>; Psa 13:3<\/span>, note; Psa 31:9<\/span>; Job 17:7<\/span>; Lam 2:11<\/span>.<\/p>\n My heart panteth – <\/B>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 23:16<\/span>; Gen 37:28<\/span>; Gen 42:34<\/span>. Applied to the heart, as it is here, it means to move about rapidly; to palpitate; to beat quick. It is an expression of pain and distress, indicated by a rapid beating of the heart.<\/P> My strength faileth me – <\/B>It is rapidly failing. He regarded himself as rapidly approaching death.<\/P> As for the light of mine eyes – <\/B>My vision; my sight.<\/P> It also is gone from me – <\/B>Margin, as in Hebrew: is not with me. This is usually an indication of approaching death; and it would seem from all these symptoms that he appeared to be drawing near to the end of life. Compare Psa 13:3<\/span>; Psa 6:7<\/span>; Psa 31:9<\/span>.<\/P> <\/p>\n Verse 10<\/span>. My heart panteth<\/B><\/I>] secharchar, flutters,<\/I> palpitates<\/I>, through fear and alarm.<\/P> <\/P> My strength faileth<\/B><\/I>] Not being able to take nourishment.<\/P> <\/P> The light of mine eyes – is gone<\/B><\/I>] I can scarcely discern any thing through the general decay of my health and vigour, particularly affecting my sight.<\/P> <\/p>\n Panteth; <\/B>or, goes round<\/I>; wanders hither and thither, as the word signifies; is perplexed and tossed with many and various thoughts, not knowing what to do, nor whither to go. Mine eyes are grown dim; either through grief and tears, as Psa 6:7<\/span>; or through weakness, as 1Sa 14:28<\/span>,29<\/span>. <\/P> <\/p>\n 10. My heart panteth<\/B>as ifbarely surviving. <\/P> light . . . from me<\/B>utterexhaustion (Psa 6:7<\/span>; Psa 13:3<\/span>).<\/P><\/p>\n My heart panteth<\/strong>,…. Or “goes about” m; runs here and there, and finds no rest; as Aben Ezra interprets the word from the Targum he cites; though the Targum we have renders it, “my heart shakes with fear”, or dread, as persons in a fever. Jarchi interprets the word, surrounded with grief; it denotes the panting or palpitation of the heart, through sorrow and dread, and the failing of it, even as at death;<\/p>\n my strength faileth me<\/strong>, or “forsakes me” n; bodily strength and spiritual strength; the strength of faith, hope, and confidence;<\/p>\n as for the light of mine eyes, it also is gone from me<\/strong>; which is often the case of persons under bodily disorders, their eyes grow dim, and sight fails them; and this might be true in a spiritual sense of the psalmist, who had lost sight of God as his covenant God; of his interest in his love, in the blessings of his grace, and in eternal salvation, and was walking in darkness, and saw no light.<\/p>\n m “circuivit”, Pagninus, Montanus, Vatablus. n “dereliquit me”, Pagninus, Montanus, Junius Tremellius, Piscator so Musculus, Cocceius.<\/p>\n 10 My heart hath turned round The verb which David here uses signifies to travel or wander hither and thither; but here it is taken for the agitation or disquietude which distress of heart engenders when we know not what to do. According as men are disquieted in mind, so do they turn themselves on all sides, and so their heart may be said to turn round, or to run to and fro. But since faith, when it has once brought us into obedience to God, holds our minds fixed on his word, it might here be asked by way of objection, How it is that the heart of David was so affected by disquietude and trouble? To this I answer, That although he continued to walk in the ways of God, while he was sustained by the promises of God, yet he was not altogether exempted from human infirmity. And, indeed, it will always happen, that as soon as we fall into some danger, our flesh will suggest to us various shifts and devices, and lead us into many errors in search of counsel; so that even the most confident would fail and go astray, unless he laid upon himself the same restraint by which David was preserved and kept in subjection, namely, by keeping all his thoughts shut up within the limits of God’s word. Nay, even in the prayers which we offer up when our minds are at ease, we experience too well how easily our minds are carried away, and wander after vain and frivolous thoughts, and how difficult it is to keep them uninterruptedly attentive and fixed with the same degree of intensity upon the object of our desire. If this happen when we are not exercised by any severe trial, what will be the case when we are agitated by violent storms and tempests which threaten a thousand deaths, and when there is no way to escape them? It is, therefore, no great wonder if they carried away the heart of David, so that it was subject to various emotions amidst such tempestuous agitations. He adds, that his strength had failed him, as if he had compared himself to a dead man. What he adds concerning the light of his eyes some understand as if he had said, that he was so much oppressed with despair on all sides, that no counsel or foresight was left to him. The more simple meaning, however, is, that the light of life was taken away from him, because in it the energy of the soul principally shows itself. <\/p>\n (10) Panteth.<\/strong>Better, palpitates. <\/em>The Hebrew word, like <\/strong>palpitate, <\/em>expresses the beating of the heart, by its sound, secharchar. 10<\/strong>. <\/strong> My heart panteth <\/strong> Palpitates violently, as in high fever-heat. <\/p>\n Light <\/strong> of mine eyes is gone <\/strong> The failing of sight by the force of sorrow and by exhaustion is complained of by Job 17:7<\/span>. In this extremity David commits his cause to God only.<\/p>\n Psa 38:10 My heart panteth, my strength faileth me: as for the light of mine eyes, it also is gone from me.<\/p>\n Ver. 10. My heart panteth<\/strong> ] Heb. runneth about, or is tossed to and fro, circuivit cor meum, inordinate movetur, et non quiescit,<\/em> saith Aben Ezra. The Hebrew word signifieth such a kind of motion as that of merchants, who run up and down from one country to another. Also the two last radicals are doubled; to note that it is more than an ordinary stirring and motion of the spirit, because it is not come to its rest. All earthly things to the soul are but as the air to the stone; can give it no stay till it come to God, the centre. As the circle is the most perfect figure, because it beginneth and endeth, the points do meet together, as (mathematicians give the reason) the last point meeteth in the first, from whence it came. So shall we never come to perfection or satisfaction (saith the reverend man) till our souls come to God, till God make the circle meet, &c. The wicked walk the round from one creature to another, Psa 12:8<\/span> , but they come not at God; and hence they are so dissatisfied. Return to thy rest (Heb. rests), saith David to his soul, that is, to God, to whom he here maketh his moan. Miser animus in varias subinde partes abreptus me deserit.<\/em> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n As for the light of mine eyes<\/strong> ] That lumen ami cum<\/em> of mine eyes is almost quite benighted.<\/p>\n strength. Strength to endure = vital strength. Hebrew. koh. <\/p>\n heart: Psa 42:1, Psa 119:81-83, Psa 143:4-7, Isa 21:4 <\/p>\n the light: Psa 6:7, Psa 69:3, Psa 88:9, Psa 119:123, 1Sa 14:27-29, Lam 2:11, Lam 5:16, Lam 5:17 <\/p>\n gone from: Heb. not with <\/p>\n Reciprocal: Psa 31:22 – I am Luk 10:31 – he passed<\/p>\n 38:10 My heart panteth, my strength faileth me: as for the light of mine eyes, {h} it also is gone from me.<\/p>\n (h) My sight fails me for sorrow.<\/p>\n My heart panteth, my strength faileth me: as for the light of mine eyes, it also is gone from me. 10. panteth ] R.V. excellently, throbbeth. as for the light of mine eyes &c.] His eyes are dim and dull with weakness and weeping. Cp. 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