And my spirit has fainted upon me;

My heart within me is appalled.

my spirit&c. Cp. Psalms 142:3, note.

is desolate Rather, is appalled, stupefied and paralysed at the apparent hopelessness of my position. Cp. Daniel 8:27. "The root-idea of the word seems to have been to be motionless, sometimes in the stillness of desolation, sometimes through amazement" (Driver on Daniel 4:19).

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