...tender mercies from me, O Lord : let thy loving kindness and thy truth continually preserve me. 1 2 For innumerable evils have compassed me about ; mine...able to look up : they are more than the hairs of my head : therefore my heart faileth me. 1 3 Be pleased, O Lord, to deliver me : O Lord, make haste...

...cast me off for ever, and would be favourable no more. I fully understood the words of the Psalmist, " Mine iniquities have taken hold upon me, so that I...hairs of mine head : therefore my heart faileth me : " (Psalm xl. 12 :) and I felt that all my devotional exercises were what the prophet Isaiah was instructed...

...thy tender mercies from me, O Lord : let thy loving-kindness and thy truth continually preserve me. For innumerable evils have compassed me about, mine...taken hold upon me, so that I am not able to look up : for they are more than the hairs of my head, therefore my heart failethme. But thou, O Lord, though...

...mouth will condemn me ; if I say I am perfect, it will also prove me perverse. For innumerable evih have compassed me about : Mine iniquities have taken...upon me, so that I am not able to look up ; they are as I have been told in thy name, more than the hairs of my head) and therefore my heart failelh me....

...appearance, continues speaking, and, only three verses after, complains in the following terms : ' Innumerable evils have compassed me about, mine iniquities...able to loo'k up ; they are more than the hairs of my head, therefore my heart faileth me,' So again, there ate no less than five quotations from different...

...own sins, or to calculate the number of all the elect ? Accordingly, referring to this, he says : " Innumerable evils have compassed me " about ; mine...hold upon me, so •• that I am not able to look up ; therefore my heart " faileth me."x He calls them mine iniquities, not because he had committed them,...

...own sins, or to calculate the number of all the elect? Accordingly, referring to this, he says : " Innumerable evils have compassed me " about ; mine...taken hold upon me, so " that I am not able to look up ; therefore my heart " faileth me."x He calls them mine iniquities, not because he had committed them,...

...saying, " Mine iniquities are gone over mine head : as a heavy burden they are too heavy for me ;" for " Mine iniquities have taken hold upon me, so that I...hairs of mine head : therefore my heart faileth me." Satan likes to keep a soul looking down; he cannot bear that we raise our eyes to look unto Jesus....

...and see if it does not constrain him to cry out in the bitterness of his soul, with the psalmist, " Mine iniquities have taken hold upon me, so that I...able to look up ; they are more than the hairs of my head ; therefore my heart faileth me." If we could but realize what a fountain of corruption there...

...up my face before thee, my God." The same ingenuous shame accompanied David's prayer when he said, " Mine iniquities have taken hold upon me, so that I...able to look up ; they are more than the hairs of my head, therefore my heart faileth me. Be pleased, O Lord, to deliver me." The publican felt ashamed...