from day to day, and during the lonesome hours of midnight was kept awake by our woe. His moisture (ver. 4), or vigour of vitality, was changed, “through means of (see Hengstenberg) the drought of summer, i. e., from the excessive heat of wrath, resembling the most parching heats of summer’s hottest days, when the sun is fiercely shedding down his intolerable rays on the arid earth. In this state He acknowledged our sin; it was only ours he had to acknowledge; he spread it out before God on the cross;