ALL THY COMMANDMENTS ARE FAITHFUL - Margin, “faithfulness.” The idea in the Hebrew is that they are worthy to be relied on. They are founded in truth, and they should secure our confidence. THEY PERSE...
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...
FAITHFUL. faithfulness. WRONGFULLY. See note on "perversely", Psalms 119:78....
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...
Psalms 107:150 _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ THE WORD OF GOD PSALMS 119 JESUS SAID, "IF YOU LOVE ME YOU WILL OBEY ME" (JOHN 14:15)....
כָּל ־מִצְוֹתֶ֥יךָ אֱמוּנָ֑ה שֶׁ֖קֶר רְדָפ֣וּנִי עָזְרֵֽנִי׃...
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 WORD THAT STANDS FAST Psalms 119:81 They persecute wrongfully; they dig pits; they have almost consumed; they have waited to destroy; but thy Word abides steadfast. The driven soul flees to the...
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...
All thy commandments [are] faithful: they persecute me wrongfully; (e) help thou me. (e) He assures himself that God will deliver his and destroy such as unjustly persecute them....
CAPH. The opening of this portion is also very beautiful, in reference to the Lord Jesus, who waited with longing expectation for the time of his being manifested unto Israel. Hence we find him, in th...
86._All thy commandments are truth. _In this verse he again confirms the statement, That, in whatever ways he was afflicted, his mind had not been distracted by various devices, because, trusting in t...
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...
ALL THY COMMANDMENTS [ARE] FAITHFUL,.... Or, "faithfulness" x they are made by a faithful God, who is holy, just, and true; they command faithfulness, sincerity, and uprightness; and require men to lo...
All thy commandments [are] faithful: they persecute me wrongfully; help thou me. Ver. 86. _All thy commandments are faithful_] Heb. faithfulness, that is, they are true, sure, equal, infallible. _ T...
_The proud have digged pits for me_ Have sought to destroy me by deceit and treachery, as well as by violence; _which are not after thy law_ Which pits, that is, which insidious designs against an inn...
_ Caph._ The Consolation of God's Word in the Midst of Great Troubles....
All Thy commandments are faithful, altogether trustworthy and dependable; THEY PERSECUTE ME WRONGFULLY, with the usual false accusations as to his being an enemy of existing order and obstinately want...
FAITHFUL: _ Heb._ faithfulness...
81-88 The psalmist sought deliverance from his sins, his foes, and his fears. Hope deferred made him faint; his eyes failed by looking out for this expected salvation. But when the eyes fail, yet fai...
ARE FAITHFUL; they are in themselves most just and true, and they require justice and faithfulness from men, promising many blessings to those that perform it, and severely forbid all fraud and falsen...
Psalms 119:86 commandments H4687 faithful H530 persecute H7291 (H8804) wrongfully H8267 Help H5826 (H8798) All thy -...
Psalms 119:81. _My soul fainteth for thy salvation: but I hope in thy word._ The ship rocks, but the anchor holds; the singer is ready to faint, but he is not ready to despair. He knows where his res...
Psalms 119:81. _My soul fainteth for thy salvation: but I hope in thy word._ The psalmist was so full of longings, hungerings, thirstings, for God's salvation that he had come even to faintness throu...
In this Psalm we have, as it were, notes from David's pocket book. Psalms 119:73. _Thy hands have made me and fashioned me: give me understanding, that I may learn thy commandments._ This is a very...
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...
_My soul fainteth for Thy salvation: but I hope in Thy Word._ PAINFUL SOUL MOODS AND THEIR ANTIDOTES I. Painful moods of soul. 1. Painful yearning (Psalms 119:81). (1) The general objects of this...
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...
Psalms 19:9; Jeremiah 18:20; Psalms 1:1; Psalms 119:78; Psalms 35:19;
Faithful — Just and true....