Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary
Psalms 119:102
To wit, by thy blessed Spirit, illuminating my mind, and working upon my heart, which other teachers cannot do.
To wit, by thy blessed Spirit, illuminating my mind, and working upon my heart, which other teachers cannot do.
I HAVE NOT DEPARTED FROM THY JUDGMENTS - Thy law; thy commands. This cannot mean that he had never done this, but that as a great rule of life he had not done it. The character and aim of his life had...
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...
DEPARTED. swerved. TAUGHT. directed....
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...
I have not departed from thy judgments: for thou hast taught me. I HAVE NOT DEPARTED FROM THY JUDGMENTS: FOR THOU HAST TAUGHT ME - inwardly by the Spirit, without which all other teaching is ineffe...
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)....
מִ מִּשְׁפָּטֶ֥יךָ לֹא ־סָ֑רְתִּי כִּֽי ־אַ֝תָּ֗ה...
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...
“THY WORD IS A LAMP, UNTO MY FEET” Psalms 119:97 The psalmist cries, _O how love I thy law!_ He then proceeds to say that he has become wiser than his enemies and has more understanding than all his...
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...
I have not departed from thy judgments: for (c) thou hast taught me. (c) So then of ourselves we can do nothing, but when God inwardly instructs us with his spirit, we feel his graces sweeter than ho...
MEM. Reader! let us listen to these sweet words, as the words of Jesus. Let us beg of God the Holy Ghost to give us grace to feel and know our interest in what he here saith, from our interest in him....
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 HAVE NOT DEPARTED FROM THY JUDGMENTS,.... From the precepts of the word, from the ways and worship and ordinances of God; he had not wickedly and on purpose departed from them; whenever he did, it w...
I have not departed from thy judgments: for thou hast taught me. Ver. 102. _I have not departed from thy judyments_] _i.e._ From thy law, which is called judgments, because God will thereby judge the...
_I have refrained, &c., from every evil way_ Every way which either is evil, or leads to evil; sin, and the temptations or occasions of sin; _that I might keep thy word_ Not for any worldly or carnal...
_ Mem._ God's Word the Essence of True Wisdom....
I have not departed from Thy judgments, making it a point to watch God's decisions of approval and condemnation; FOR THOU HAST TAUGHT ME. The Word of God is very clear on that point; one must but do w...
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...
Psalms 119:102 departed H5493 (H8804) judgments H4941 taught H3384 (H8689) departed - Psalms 18:21;...
Psalms 119:89. _For ever, O LORD, thy word is settled in heaven._ Other things come, and go, and change, moons wax and wane, tides ebb and flow, everything earthly is changeable; but «Thy word is set...
Psalms 119:89. _For ever, O LORD, thy word is settled in heaven._ It is not a changeable or vanishing thing: «Thy word is settled,» settled for ever, settled «for ever in heaven.» As God changes not,...
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...
1 John 2:19; 1 John 2:27; 1 Thessalonians 2:13; Ephesians 4:20;...
Taught me — By thy blessed spirit, illuminating my mind, and working upon my heart....