Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary
Psalms 119:141
Small; or, a little one; not for age, but in respect of my condition in the world; mean and obscure.
Small; or, a little one; not for age, but in respect of my condition in the world; mean and obscure.
Verse Psalms 119:141. _I_ AM _SMALL AND DESPISED_] And on these accounts have every thing to _fear_. Being _small_, I cannot _resist_; being _despised_, I am in _danger_; but even all this does not in...
I AM SMALL AND DESPISED - The word here rendered “small” may mean “small” in respect to number - that is, “few,” Micah 5:2; Isaiah 60:22; or in respect to age - “young,” Genesis 19:31; or in respect t...
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...
SMALL. INSIGNIFICANT. Compare Judges 6:15....
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 am small and despised: yet do not I forget thy precepts. I AM SMALL AND DESPISED; (YET) DO NOT I FORGET THY PRECEPTS. This makes me great before God, though small before the world (; )....
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)....
These words are hardly applicable to an individual, while to the struggling Israel, in relation to the great Eastern Powers, they are peculiarly suitable....
צָעִ֣יר אָנֹכִ֣י וְ נִבְזֶ֑ה פִּ֝קֻּדֶ֗יךָ לֹ֣א...
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...
WHY LOVE GOD'S WORD? Psalms 119:129 What a beautiful soul this is that utters itself in these stanzas! The psalmist acknowledges his simplicity; is quite content to be among the unknown and despised...
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 [am] (c) small and despised: [yet] do not I forget thy precepts. (c) This is the true trial to praise God in adversity....
TZADDI. In this portion is that memorable verse which throws a light upon the whole Psalm, and fully authorizes us to apply many parts of it directly to the person of Jesus. The passage is, My zeal ha...
141._I am, insignificant and despised. _The meaning is, that although he was tried with poverty and many other calamities, he steadily persevered in the exercise of true godliness, and in the observan...
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 [AM] SMALL AND DESPISED,.... Or, "I have been" x. Some versions render it "young" y; as if it had respect to the time of his anointing by Samuel, when he was overlooked and despised in his father's...
I [am] small and despised: [yet] do not I forget thy precepts. Ver. 141. _I am small and despised_] _Minutus,_ a worm and no man, an abject and outcast, _nullificamen hominis, &c._ Yet do I not forg...
_My zeal hath consumed me_ My zeal toward thy law, which my enemies violate and contemn. “Zeal is a high degree of love; and when the object of that love is ill treated, it vents itself in a mixture o...
_ Tzaddi._ The Proper Appreciation of the Word of God....
I am small and despised, young and insignificant, without influential connections in the world, his opinions, therefore, being belittled and ridiculed by the wise and mighty of this world; YET DO I NO...
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 119:141 small H6810 despised H959 (H8737) forget H7911 (H8804) precepts H6490 small -...
Psalms 119:141 I. Man, among all his other weaknesses, is so prone to vanity, conceit, and pride that in teaching the lesson of self-respect, in pressing on you the truth that we are greater than we k...
Psalms 119:137. _Righteous art thou, O LORD, and upright are thy judgments._ It is well to be able to say this when you are being tried, when the hand of God lies heavy upon you; it is hard to kick a...
Psalms 119:129. _Thy testimonies are wonderful: therefore doth my soul keep them._ It is very wonderful that God should speak to us at all, and still more marvellous that he should write to us such a...
Psalms 119:129. _Thy testimonies are wonderful: therefore doth my soul keep them._ Every true believer admires God's Word; and, more than that, it amazes him: «Thy testimonies are wonderful.» View th...
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...
_Righteous art Thou, O Lord, and upright are Thy judgments._ THE TESTIMONY OF A TRIED SAINT I. His testimony concerning God. 1. Concerning the Divine character (verses 137,142). (1) God’s righteou...
_I am small and despised: yet do not I forget Thy precepts._ THE COMMON LOT I wish to speak of our own separate lives. To the most wearied of you all, I would teach that there is hope. I would say, i...
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...
2 Corinthians 8:9; Isaiah 53:3; James 2:5; Luke 6:20; Luke 9:58;...