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Psalms 119:148
Mine eyes prevent the night watches, the coming of each of which finds him awake, that I might meditate in Thy Word, give himself to its undisturbed contemplation.
Mine eyes prevent the night watches, the coming of each of which finds him awake, that I might meditate in Thy Word, give himself to its undisturbed contemplation.
Verse Psalms 119:148. _MINE EYES PREVENT_] קדמו _kiddemu_, "go before the watches." Before the watchman proclaims the hour, I am awake, meditating on thy words. The Jews divided the night into three...
MINE EYES PREVENT THE NIGHT WATCHES - Luther renders this, “I wake up early.” The Hebrew word means a “watch” - a part of the night, so called from military watches, or a dividing of the night to “kee...
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...
PREVENT. anticipate, or forestall. WATCHES. See App-51....
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...
MINE EYES PREVENT THE NIGHT-WATCHES— The Jews anciently divided the night into three watches, which began at what we now call six of the clock in the evening, and consisted each of four hours: the Rom...
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...
Mine eyes prevent the night watches, that I might meditate in thy word. MINE EYES PREVENT THE NIGHT WATCHES - Mine eyes are already awake before the night-watches are past (Maurer). 'The night watc...
'Mine eyes forestall the night-watches,' i.e. when each watch comes I am already awake....
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)....
קִדְּמ֣וּ עֵ֭ינַי אַשְׁמֻרֹ֑ות לָ֝ שִׂ֗יחַ בְּ...
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...
Mine eyes (b) prevent the [night] watches, that I might meditate in thy word. (b) He was more earnest in the study of God's word, than they who kept the watch were in their charge....
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...
148._My eyes have prevented the night watchers. _(21) The Psalmist here intimates, that he was more sedulously intent on meditating upon the law of God than watchmen of the night were to keep watch. O...
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...
MINE EYES PREVENT THE [NIGHT] WATCHES,.... The Targum is, "the morning and evening watches.'' There were three of them; Kimchi interprets it of the second and third; the meaning is, that the psalmis...
Mine eyes prevent the [night] watches, that I might meditate in thy word. Ver. 148. _Mine eyes prevent the night watches_] By this verse and the former it appeareth that he spent whole nights in pray...
_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...
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 NIGHT WATCHES, Heb. _the watches_; which were kept only by night. And these watches were then three, as hath been more than once observed. And this is not to be understood of the first watch, whic...
Psalms 119:148 eyes H5869 awake H6923 (H8765) watches H821 meditate H7878 (H8800) word H565 eyes -...
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...
_Mine eyes prevent the night watches, that I might meditate in Thy Word._ THE INEXHAUSTIBLENESS OF THE BIBLE There is something very surprising in the fact--but that it is a fact admits of no debate-...
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...
Lamentations 2:19; Luke 6:12; Psalms 119:62; Psalms 139:17;...
Watches — The middle watch, which was set in the middle of the night; and the morning watch, which was set some hours before the dawning of the day....