My soul breaketh for the longing
His heart was just ready to break, and his soul fainted; he was
ready to die, through a vehement desire of enjoying the object
longed for, after mentioned; "hope deferred makes the heart
sick", ( Proverbs
13:1 Proverbs
13:2 ) ; the phrase is expressive of the greatness,
vehemence, and eagerness of his mind after the thing he desired,
which follows:
[that it hath] unto thy judgments at all times;
not the judgments of God on wicked men, though these are
desirable for the glorifying of his justice; nor his dark
dispensations of providence, though good men cannot but desire
and long for the time when these judgments shall be made
manifest: but rather the righteous laws and precepts of God are
designed, which he desired to have a more perfect knowledge of,
and yield a more constant obedience unto; or, best of all, the
doctrines of grace and righteousness, that should be more clearly
revealed in the times of the Messiah; who was to set judgment in
the earth, his Gospel; and to bring in everlasting righteousness,
and glorify the justice of God; than which nothing was more
earnestly and importunately wished and longed for by Old
Testament saints; see ( Psalms
119:81 ) ( Psalms 14:7 ) .