Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary
Psalms 119:115
And therefore will avoid your society and conversation, lest I should be hindered from that which is good, and drawn to sin by your evil counsel or example.
And therefore will avoid your society and conversation, lest I should be hindered from that which is good, and drawn to sin by your evil counsel or example.
Verse Psalms 119:115. _DEPART FROM ME_] _Odi profanum vulgus, etarceo_, I abominate the profane, and will have no communion with them. I drive them away from my presence....
DEPART FROM ME, YE EVIL-DOERS - Workers of iniquity; bad men. See the notes at Psalms 6:8. This indicates a determined purpose that nothing should deter or allure him from the service of God. A man wh...
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...
GOD. Hebrew. _Elohim._ App-4. But "my God" implies Jehovah....
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...
Depart from me, ye evildoers: for I will keep the commandments of my God. DEPART FROM ME, YE EVIL-DOERS: FOR I WILL KEEP THE COMMANDMENTS OF MY GOD - (.) Depart from me, because you can neither de...
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)....
FOR. — Better, _and._ The presence of the wicked was a hindrance to religion. It is Israel trying to purify itself from the leaven of evil influence that speaks. The first clause is from Psalms 6:8....
סֽוּרוּ ־מִמֶּ֥נִּי מְרֵעִ֑ים וְ֝ אֶצְּרָ֗ה מִצְוֹ֥ת...
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...
“TIME FOR THE LORD TO WORK” Psalms 119:113 There is an ineradicable difference between the child of God and evil-doers, and the believer does not want to be involved in their fate. Therefore he bids...
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...
(b) Depart from me, ye evildoers: for I will keep the commandments of my God. (b) And hinder me not to keep the law of the Lord....
SAMECH. After the observations which have been proposed upon the foregoing portions of this most blessed Psalm, the Reader will not be surprised, neither, I hope, offended, if I go on to accept this p...
115._Depart from me, ye wicked! _Some explain this verse as if David declared that he would devote himself with more alacrity and greater earnestness to the keeping of the law, when the wicked should...
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...
DEPART FROM ME, YE EVILDOERS,.... The same with the evil thinkers, Psalms 119:113; According to Aben Ezra, they that think evil commonly do it; as they devise it, they commit it. This describes such p...
Depart from me, ye evildoers: for I will keep the commandments of my God. Ver. 115. _Depart from me, ye evildoers_] For what reason? there is no doing my duty in your company; besides, a double dange...
_SAMECH._ Psalms 119:113. _I hate vain thoughts_ Or, _wild imaginations_, as some render סעפים, a word which signifies the shootings, or branchings of the mind; namely, all wild, roving fancies, in op...
_ Samech._ The Need of a Firm Stand for the Truth of God's Word....
Depart from me, ye evil-doers, he wants nothing to do with such as deliberately indulge in wickedness; FOR I WILL KEEP THE COMMANDMENTS OF MY GOD; resolved to do the will of God, he is sure of the Lor...
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 119:115 Depart H5493 (H8798) evildoers H7489 (H8688) keep H5341 (H8799) commandments H4687 God H430...
Psalms 119:1. _I hate vain thoughts: but thy law do I love._ Presumptuous thoughts, erroneous thoughts, wicked thoughts, foolish thoughts,-all three David hated. A good man ought to be a good hater,...
The proper way in which to read these verses is to peruse them in the spirit of prayer, turning every verse into a personal supplication to God. I do trust that many of us may be so in the Spirit toda...
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...
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...
_Thou art my hiding-place and my shield: I hope in Thy Word._ THE GUARDIAN AND SUPPORT OF SOULS I. The guardianship of god enjoyed. “Hiding-place” is a place of protection, a place where the enemy c...
_Depart from me, ye evil-doers; for I will keep the commandments of my God._ “GO!” AND THEY GO “You go your way,” he says in effect, “and I will go mine; I am for obedience, you are not for that, an...
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 Corinthians 15:33; Joshua 24:15; Matthew 25:41; Matthew 7:23;...