My heart pants, my strength fails me: as for the light of my eyes, it also is gone from me.
All Commentaries on Psalms 38:10 Go To Psalms 38
George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Troubled. Hebrew, "beats "palpitat. (Houbigant)
Itself. Hebrew, "even they are "(Haydock)
I was no longer endued with the spirit of prophecy, (St. Basil) till my conversion, (St. Augustine) nor an object of favour. (Haydock)
I was abandoned to myself, (Calmet) quitting thy light. (St. Ambrose)
My eyes have been hurt by weeping (Haydock) and maladies, (Calmet) while my heart is become so corrupt, that I do not relish or discern spiritual things. (Haydock)
The beauty of virtue, and the enormity of vice, do not strike me. (Menochius)
