PSALMS 119:123 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“Mine eyes fail for thy salvation, and for the word of thy righteousness.”
Eyes straining for salvation and the promise of righteousness, the psalmist expresses the longing characteristic of those who have glimpsed divine truth and cannot rest until full deliverance arrives. This verse employs the Ayin stanza's
Church Fathers on Psalms 119:123
1. From its commencement, dearly beloved, does this great Psalm exhort us unto bliss, which there is no one who desires not....And therefore this is the lesson which he teaches, who says, “Blessed are those that are undefiled in the way, who walk in the law of the Lord” Psalm 118:1. As much as to say, I know what you wish, you are seeking bliss: if then you would be blessed, be undefiled. For the former all desire, the latter fear: yet without it what all wish cannot be…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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