Teach me good judgment and knowledge: for I have believed thy commandments.
Teach me good judgment and knowledge. "Judgment" ( ta`am (H2940)) - literally, taste. So experimental understanding (Psalms 34:8). On "good," cf. Psalms 27:13; Psalms 31:19.
For I have believed thy commandments - in both their threats, and their promises.
Verse Psalms 119:66. _TEACH ME GOOD JUDGMENT AND KNOWLEDGE_] טוב טעם ודעי למדני _tob taam vedaath lammnedeni_. _Teach me_ (to have) _a good taste and_ _discernment_. Let me see and know the importance...
TEACH ME GOOD JUDGMENT - The word here rendered “judgment” means, properly, “taste,” that power by which we determine the quality of things as sweet, bitter, sour, etc. Then it is applied to the mind...
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...
TEACH ME GOOD JUDGMENT— The Hebrew words properly signify, a goodness of taste, with relation to the palate; and it is only figuratively, and by way of analogy, that they signify a goodness of judgmen...
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...
119:66 believed (e-10) Or 'I believe.'...
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...
Psalms 107:150 _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ THE WORD OF GOD PSALMS 119 JESUS SAID, "IF YOU LOVE ME YOU WILL OBEY ME" (JOHN 14:15)....
TETH. (66) GOOD JUDGMENT. — More exactly, _good taste._ Here, however, in a moral, not æsthetic sense. Perhaps _tact_ or _delicate moral perception_ represents it. We may compare St. Paul’s use of th...
ט֤וּב טַ֣עַם וָ דַ֣עַת לַמְּדֵ֑נִי כִּ֖י בְ
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...
PROFITING FROM AFFLICTION Psalms 119:65 _ Before I was afflicted, I went astray; it is good for me that I have been afflicted; thou in faithfulness hast afflicted me_. Here is the far-off interest of...
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...
TETH. As the first verse of the foregoing portion proved that Jesus was the speaker; so the last verse of this portion as plainly points to the same. None but the ever-blessed Jesus had such testimony...
66._Teach me goodness of taste and acknowledge _After having confessed that he had found, by experience, the faithfulness of God to his promises, David here adds a request similar to what is contained...
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...
TEACH ME GOOD JUDGMENT AND KNOWLEDGE,.... Or, "a good taste" p: of the Lord himself, how good and gracious he is; of his grace and love, which is better than wine; of his word and the truths of it, wh...
Teach me good judgment and knowledge: for I have believed thy commandments. Ver. 66. _Teach me good judgment_] Heb. good taste, for the soul also hath her senses; and as the mouth tasteth meat, so th...
_TETH._ Psalms 119:66. _Teach me good judgment_ Whereby I may rightly discern between truth and falsehood, good and evil; that so I may be kept from those errors in which many are involved, and may cl...
_ Teth._ The Realization that God's Humiliation of Man is Salutary....
Teach me good judgment and knowledge, enabling him to distinguish carefully between good and evil; FOR I HAVE BELIEVED THY COMMANDMENTS, for it is only by following the path of God's Word with the gre...
65-72 However God has dealt with us, he has dealt with us better than we deserve; and all in love, and for our good. Many have knowledge, but little judgment; those who have both, are fortified again...
GOOD JUDGMENT; whereby I may rightly discern between truth and falsehood, good and evil, between the mind of God and my own or others inventions; that so I may be kept from those mistakes and errors i...
Psalms 119:66 Teach H3925 (H8761) good H2898 judgment H2940 knowledge H1847 believe H539 (H8689) commandments H4687
Psalms 119:64. _The earth, O LORD, is full of thy mercy: teach me thy statutes. Thou hast dealt well with thy servant, O LORD, according unto thy word. Teach me good judgment and knowledge: for I have...
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...
_Teach me good judgment and knowledge: for l have believed Thy commandments._ EXCELLENCE OF THE LAW I. What is implied in believing God’s commandments. 1. That we are persuaded of their reality and...
_Thou hast dealt with Thy servant, O Lord._ A GOOD MAN I. The testimony of a good man. 1. Concerning God. His kind treatment and faithful promise. 2. Concerning affliction. II. The prayer Of a go...
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...
1 Kings 3:28; 1 Kings 3:9; Isaiah 11:2; James 3:13; Judges 3:15;...
Judgment — Whereby I may rightly discern between truth and falsehood. Knowledge — A spiritual experimental knowledge....