Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary
Psalms 119:103
The study and obedience of thy words yields me more satisfaction and delight than any worldly men find in their sensual pleasures.
The study and obedience of thy words yields me more satisfaction and delight than any worldly men find in their sensual pleasures.
Verse Psalms 119:103. SWEETER _THAN HONEY TO MY MOUTH!_] What deep communion must this man have had with his Maker! These expressions show a soul filled with God. O Christians, how vastly _superior_ a...
HOW SWEET ARE THY WORDS UNTO MY TASTE ... - Margin, as in Hebrew, “palate.” The reference is to the taste, perhaps because the sense of taste was supposed to reside in the palate. The Hebrew word “may...
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...
SWEET. smooth, or agreeable. Not the same word as in Psalms 19:10....
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...
How sweet are thy words unto my taste! yea, sweeter than honey to my mouth! HOW SWEET ARE THY WORDS UNTO MY TASTE! YEA, SWEETER THAN HONEY TO MY MOUTH - (.) The spiritual 'palate' (so the Hebrew for...
119:103 *words (a-5) Lit. 'word' ( _ Imrah_ )....
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)....
מַה ־נִּמְלְצ֣וּ לְ֭ חִכִּי אִמְרָתֶ֗ךָ מִ דּ
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...
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....
103._O how sweet have been thy words to my palate! _He again repeats what he had previously stated in different words, that he was so powerfully attracted by the sweetness of the Divine Law, as to hav...
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...
HOW SWEET ARE THY WORDS UNTO MY TASTE!.... Who had a spiritual one; and could discern perverse things, and could taste how good and gracious the Lord is: and so his words were sweet unto him; the doct...
How sweet are thy words unto my taste! [yea, sweeter] than honey to my mouth! Ver. 103. _How sweet are thy words unto my taste!_] Heb. to my palate; _Syr. coelis gutturis mei,_ the roof of the mouth...
_How sweet are thy words to my taste!_ Observe, reader, there is such a thing as a spiritual taste, an inward savour and relish of divine things; such an evidence of them to ourselves, by experience,...
_ Mem._ God's Word the Essence of True Wisdom....
How sweet are Thy words unto my taste! pleasant for spiritual edification; yea, SWEETER THAN HONEY TO MY MOUTH, for such is the effect of the Gospel promises upon every believer....
TASTE!: _ Heb._ palate...
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 119:103 sweet H4452 (H8738) words H565 taste H2441 honey H1706 mouth H6310 sweet -...
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...
_How sweet are Thy words unto my taste! yea, sweeter than honey to my mouth! _ THE BEST CHRISTMAS FARE I like this way of describing the reception of God’s Word as a matter of eating, for a man cann...
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...
Job 23:12; Proverbs 24:13; Proverbs 24:14; Proverbs 3:17; Proverbs