Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary
Psalms 119:105
NUN Ver. 105. To direct me in all my doubts and difficulties, to preserve from sin and misery, both which oft come under the name of darkness, and to comfort me in all my fears and distresses.
NUN Ver. 105. To direct me in all my doubts and difficulties, to preserve from sin and misery, both which oft come under the name of darkness, and to comfort me in all my fears and distresses.
LETTER נ NUN. - _FOURTEENTH DIVISION_ Verse Psalms 119:105. _THY WORD_ IS _A LAMP_] This is illustrated thus by _Solomon_, Proverbs 6:23: "The _commandment_ is a _lamp_; and the _law_ is _light_; a
THY WORD IS A LAMP UNTO MY FEET - This begins a new portion of the psalm, indicated by the Hebrew letter Nun (נ _n_), equivalent to our “n.” The margin here is “candle.” The Hebrew word means a light,...
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...
LAMP: or lantern, for light on the path for the feet; not merely. light for the eyes (Psalms 19:8)....
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...
Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path. THY WORD IS A LAMP UNTO MY FEET, AND A LIGHT UNTO MY PATH. The Word is "a lamp" to us, a "light that shineth in a dark place until the day...
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)....
NUN. (105) See Proverbs 6:23. So Wordsworth calls Duty: “A light to guide.”...
נֵר ־לְ רַגְלִ֥י דְבָרֶ֑ךָ וְ֝ אֹ֗ור לִ
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...
NUN. Thy word [is] a (a) lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path. (a) Of ourselves we are but darkness and cannot see unless we are lightened with God's Word....
NUN. I pass over several very interesting observations which might be offered on the verses in this portion, (for there is not a part of them but is well calculated to make our meditation sweet); but...
105._Thy word is a lamp to my feet. _In this verse the Psalmist testifies that the Divine Law was his schoolmaster and guide in leading a holy life. He thus, by his own example, prescribes the same ru...
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...
n, NUN.--THE FOURTEENTH PART. Ver. 105. NUN. THY WORD [IS] A LAMP UNTO MY FEET,.... The same Solomon says of the law and commandment, the preceptive part of the word, Proverbs 6:23; and the Septuagin...
NUN. Thy word [is] a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path. Ver. 105. _Thy word is a lamp unto my feet_] Without the direction whereof, both for my whole course of life, and for every particula...
_NUN._ Psalms 119:105. _Thy word is a lamp unto my feet_ To direct me in all my doubts and difficulties, and to comfort me in all my fears and distresses. _I have sworn, and will perform it_ I have so...
Thy Word is a lamp unto my feet, guiding his footsteps past the abysses of so many and severe dangers, AND A LIGHT UNTO MY PATH, not with a dim and uncertain illumination, but with a direct and clear...
LAMP: Or, candle...
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 119:105 word H1697 lamp H5216 feet H7272 light H216 path H5410 word - Psalms 19:8,...
Psalms 119:105 The two parts of this verse are not two different ways of saying the same thing. The word of God is a lamp or lantern to the feet at night; it is a light like that of the sun by day. It...
We will read tonight two of the stanzas which make up the 119 th Psalm, beginning at the 105 th verse. Psalms 119:105. _Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path._ God's Word is full...
Psalms 119:105. _Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path._ We are walkers through the city of this world, and we are often called to go out into its darkness; let us never venture t...
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...
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...
_Thy Word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path._ THE DIVINE LAMP God’s Word as a lamp is-- I. Ever needful. Man needs a guide through life. His mental eyes are dim, and the road is drea...
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
PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 119:105 LAMP... LIGHT. See note on 112:4. ⇐...
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...
2 Peter 1:19; Ephesians 5:13; Job 29:3; Proverbs 6:23; Psalms 18:28;...