Verse Psalms 119:147. _I PREVENTED THE DAWNING_] קדמתי _kiddamti_, "I went before the dawn or twilight....
I PREVENTED THE DAWNING OF THE MORNING, AND CRIED - I anticipated it; I rose up to pray before the morning dawned. On the word “prevent,” see the notes at 1 Thessalonians 4:15; notes at Psalms 21:3; n...
Psalms 119 The Law Written on Their Hearts and the Praise of the Word This is the longest and most perfect Psalm in the whole collection. It is an alphabetical acrostic. It is composed of 22 section...
CXIX. PRAISE OF THE LAW. This is the longest and most artificial Ps. in the whole collection. It is divided into twenty-two strophes, each beginning with one of the twenty-two letters of the Heb. alph...
PREVENTED. anticipated, or forestalled. DAWNING.. _Homonym._ Hebrew. _nephesh._ See note on 1 Samuel 30:17. Authorized Version and Revised Version correctly render it here, and in Job 7:4. though not...
DISCOURSE: 712 DAVID’S DESIRE TO SERVE GOD Psalms 119:145. _I cried with my whole heart; Hear me, O Lord: I will keep thy statutes. I cried unto thee; save me, and I shall keep thy testimonies. I pre...
PSALMS 119 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE Jehovah's Will in Relation to Human Character and Conduct, celebrated in Twenty-two Alphabetical Stanzas, and by the aid of Eight Comprehensive Synonyms. ANALYSIS (The...
The longest Ps. and the best example of an alphabetical Ps. There are in it twenty-two stanzas; each of the 8 vv. of each stanza commences with the same Hebrew letter. The subject is practically the s...
I PREVENTED, etc.] i.e. Before daybreak I cried....
Psalms 107:150 _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ THE WORD OF GOD PSALMS 119 JESUS SAID, "IF YOU LOVE ME YOU WILL OBEY ME" (JOHN 14:15)....
KOPH. (147) PREVENTED. — See Psalms 18:5; Psalms 79:8. The Authorised Version gives the sense, _I was up before the morning._ DAWNING OF THE MORNING. — The Hebrew word means literally “breath,” and i...
קִדַּ֣מְתִּי בַ֭ † נֶּשֶׁף וָ אֲשַׁוֵּ֑עָה _לִ_†_דְבָרְךָ֥_
Psalms 119:1 IT is lost labour to seek for close continuity or progress in this psalm. One thought pervades it-the surpassing excellence of the Law; and the beauty and power of the psalm lie in the un...
THE JOY OF COMMUNION WITH GOD Psalms 119:145 There is great eagerness in the psalmist's prayerfulness. He calls with his whole heart; he awakes before the dawn and continues long after the fall of ni...
Any dealing with this psalm must necessarily be general and not particular. It has been called the psalm of the Law, not inaccurately; but the term, "The Law," should be understood in its widest signi...
KOPH. These verses give us an interesting view of Jesus, and are descriptive of some of those conflicts, under which he was constrained to lift up his voice to God his Father, with strong cryings and...
147._I have prevented the twilight. _The Hebrew noun נשף _, nesheph, _is in this place improperly translated by _crepusculum, twilight; _for it rather signifies the dawn of morning. But as the Latin’s...
Psalms 119 is in general the law written in the heart. This gives it an important place in the series of psalms. It is found distinctly connected too with Israel's sorrows in the last days and their p...
I PREVENTED THE DAWNING OF THE MORNING, AND CRIED,.... That is, he awoke and got up, and prayed, before the day broke, the morning looked forth, or the sun arose: he was early as well as earnest in hi...
I prevented the dawning of the morning, and cried: I hoped in thy word. Ver. 147. _I prevented the dawning of the morning_] I was up and at it before daybreak. This is check to our sluggishness. _ I...
_KOPH._ Psalms 119:147. _I prevented the dawning of the morning_ Hebrew, בנשׁ Š, _the twilight_, namely, of the morning. In this sense this word is used 1 Samuel 30:17. _Mine eyes prevent the night-wa...
I prevented the dawning of the morning, being awake before the coming of dawn, AND CRIED; I HOPED IN THY WORD....
_ Koph._ Constant Prayer for Faithfulness over against Opposition....
89-96 The settling of God's word in heaven, is opposed to the changes and revolutions of the earth. And the engagements of God's covenant are established more firmly than the earth itself. All the cr...
THE DAWNING OF THE MORNING, Heb. _the twilight_, to wit, of the morning, by comparing PSALMS 88:13. And so this word is used 1 SAMUEL 30:17....
Psalms 119:147 rise H6923 (H8765) morning H5399 cry H7768 (H8762) hope H3176 (H8765) word H1697...
Psalms 119:145. _I cried with my whole heart: hear me, O LORD: I will keep thy statutes._ In the time of trouble there is no resort like that of prayer, but it must be intense and earnest. «I cried w...
Psalms 119:145. _I cried with my whole heart; hear me. O LORD: I will keep thy statutes._ It is sweet to look back upon our prayers, if those prayers were uttered with our whole heart, for it is no s...
Psalms 119:137. _Righteous art thou, O LORD, and upright are thy judgments._ It is well to be able to say this when you are being tried, when the hand of God lies heavy upon you; it is hard to kick a...
CONTENTS: The excellency and usefulness of the divine revelation set forth and exhortation to all to make it their meditation and to be governed by it. CHARACTERS: God, Psalmist. CONCLUSION: Great b...
That David was the author of this psalm, no one ever doubted. It is divided into twenty two octo-distichs, having a letter of the Hebrew alphabet at the head of each distich; and the couplets are most...
PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 119:1. This psalm celebrates the gift of God’s law as the perfect guide for life. Its theme is echoed in Psalms 19:1 and in such wisdom psa
INTRODUCTION 1. Date and authorship. Some ascribe the authorship to “David, before his accession to the kingdom, in exile and peril (Psalms 119:9; Psalms 119:23; Psalms 119:46;...
EXPOSITION This is an "alphabetic psalm" of a more stringent character than any other. It consists of twenty-two stanzas, each of eight verses, every verse in each stanza beginning with its own proper...
Now as we get to Psalms 119:1-176, it is an extremely difficult psalm for exposition, because each section seems to be more or less independent of in itself, and each verse, many times, almost indepen...
Hebrews 6:17; Isaiah 26:9; Mark 1:35; Psalms 130:6; Psalms 21:3;...