King James Version
Psalms 71:8 in the King James Version says “Let my mouth be filled with thy praise and with thy honour all the day.” — study this verse from Psalms chapter 71 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“Let my mouth be filled with thy praise and with thy honour all the day.”
Psalms 71:8 · KJV
By thee have I been holden up from the womb: thou art he that took me out of my mother's bowels: my praise shall be continually of thee.
I am as a wonder unto many; but thou art my strong refuge.
Let my mouth be filled with thy praise and with thy honour all the day.
Cast me not off in the time of old age; forsake me not when my strength faileth.
For mine enemies speak against me; and they that lay wait for my soul take counsel together, lay: Heb. watch, or, observe
KJV Study — Public Domain
“be filled”
H4390to fill or (intransitively) be full of, in a wide application (literally and figuratively)
“Let my mouth”
H6310the mouth (as the means of blowing), whether literal or figurative (particularly speech); specifically edge, portion or side; adverbially (with prepos
properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every (in the singular only, but often in a plural sense)
“all the day”
H3117a day (as the warm hours), whether literal (from sunrise to sunset, or from one sunset to the next), or figurative (a space of time defined by an asso
“and with thy honour”
H8597ornament (abstractly or concretely, literally or figuratively)
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