Psalms 119:28

My soul melteth -Margin, “droppeth.” The Hebrew word here employed -דלףdâlaph- means to drop, to drip, to distil, spoken of a house, as when the rain drops through the roof,Ecclesiastes 10:18; then, to shed tears, to weep,Job 16:20- and this seems to be the meaning here. The idea of melting is not properly in the word, and the term weep would better express the meaning. His soul seemed to drop tears. It overflowed with tears. Yet there is an idea of abundant or constant weeping. It is not a gush of emotion, as when we say of one that he is “bathed in tears;” it is the idea of a steady flow or dropping of tears - slow, silent, but constant - as if the soul were dripping away or dissolving.