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Psalms 119:166
Lord, I have hoped for Thy salvation, longing for it as Jacob did of old, Genesis 49:18, and done Thy commandments, obedient to the holy will of God, as laid down in His Word.
Lord, I have hoped for Thy salvation, longing for it as Jacob did of old, Genesis 49:18, and done Thy commandments, obedient to the holy will of God, as laid down in His Word.
Verse 166. _LORD, I HAVE HOPED_] Thou hast _promised deliverance_, and I have _expected_ it on the _ground_ of that _promise_....
LORD, I HAVE HOPED FOR THY SALVATION - As a prevailing habit or principle in my life. I have looked to thee for deliverance in the time of danger; I have looked to thee for salvation in the world to c...
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...
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...
LORD, I have hoped for thy salvation, and done thy commandments. LORD, I HAVE HOPED FOR THY SALVATION, AND DONE THY COMMANDMENTS - (.) So Jacob on his death-bed ()....
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)....
שִׂבַּ֣רְתִּי לִֽ ישׁוּעָתְךָ֣ יְהוָ֑ה וּֽ מִצְוֹתֶ֥יךָ...
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...
JEHOVAH INSPIRES CONTINUAL PRAISE Psalms 119:161 What a noble conclusion we reach in these closing stanzas! _I rejoice at thy word; thy law do I love; seven times a day do I praise thee; let my lips...
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...
LORD, I have (d) hoped for thy salvation, and done thy commandments. (d) He shows that we must first have faith before we can work and please God....
SCHIN. Still prosecuting the same subject of suffering, here are the same petitions lodged before the throne. The apostle to the Hebrews was commissioned by the Holy Ghost to teach the church some ver...
166_O Jehovah! I have waited for thy salvation. _It is not without cause that the Prophet often repeats this sentence, which is in all men’s mouths, there being nothing easier than to ascribe to God 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...
LORD, I HAVE HOPED FOR THY SALVATION,.... Either temporal salvation and deliverance from enemies, and from afflictions, which God had promised, and therefore he had reason to hope for; or spiritual an...
LORD, I have hoped for thy salvation, and done thy commandments. Ver. 166. _Lord, I have hoped for thy salvation_] This saying he borrowed from good old Jacob, Genesis 49:18 _ And done thy commandmen...
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...
Thus performing the condition which thou hast required, I justly and confidently hope for thy mercy promised....
Psalms 119:166 LORD H3068 hope H7663 (H8765) salvation H3444 do H6213 (H8804) commandments H4687 Lord -...
Psalms 119:153. _Consider mine affliction, and deliver me: for I do not forget thy law._ As much as if he said, «Lord, I do not forget thee; do not forget me.» Thy grace has kept my memory; let thy g...
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...
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...
_Lord, I have hoped for Thy salvation, and done Thy commandments._ A JUSTIFIABLE HOPE There is a true hope and a false hope, a justifiable and an unjustifiable hope--the words direct us to the forme...
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 John 2:3; 1 John 2:4; Genesis 49:18; John 7:17; Psalms 24:3;...