Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary
Psalms 119:149
According to thy word, which is oft called God's judgment; or, according to thy custom or manner of dealing with me and with others of thy people; as this word is taken above, Psalms 119:132.
According to thy word, which is oft called God's judgment; or, according to thy custom or manner of dealing with me and with others of thy people; as this word is taken above, Psalms 119:132.
HEAR MY VOICE, ACCORDING UNTO THY LOVING-KINDNESS - According to thy mercy; thy goodness. Let that be the rule in answering me; not my deserts, or even the fervour of my prayers. We can desire no bett...
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...
HEAR. Emphatic. O do hear....
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...
Hear my voice according unto thy lovingkindness: O LORD quicken me according to thy judgment Hear my voice according unto thy lovingkindness: O LORD, quicken me according to thy judgment. HEAR MY...
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)....
ACCORDING TO THY JUDGMENT. — See Note, Psalms 119:132. We must certainly here give the Hebrew noun the meaning of a “custom,” which it bears there. (Comp. Prayer Book version, “according as Thou art w...
קֹ֭ולִי שִׁמְעָ֣ה כְ חַסְדֶּ֑ךָ יְ֝הוָ֗ה כְּֽ...
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...
THE JOY OF COMMUNION WITH GOD Psalms 119:145 There is great eagerness in the psalmist's prayerfulness. He calls with his whole heart; he awakes before the dawn and continues long after the fall of ni...
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...
KOPH. These verses give us an interesting view of Jesus, and are descriptive of some of those conflicts, under which he was constrained to lift up his voice to God his Father, with strong cryings and...
149._Hear my voice, O Jehovah! according to thy mercy. _In the first place he declares, that the goodness of God was the only ground of his hope of being heard by him. Whatever blessings the saints ma...
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...
HEAR MY VOICE ACCORDING UNTO THY LOVINGKINDNESS,.... Not according to his own merits and deserts, or works of righteousness done by him, for the sake of which he did not present his supplications to G...
Hear my voice according unto thy lovingkindness: O LORD, quicken me according to thy judgment. Ver. 149. _Hear my voice according unto thy lovingkindness_] Showed heretofore to others of thy servants...
_O Lord, quicken me_ Stir me up to love and serve thee, and make me vigorous, lively, and cheerful in thy work; _according to thy judgment_ According to thy word, which is often called God's judgment;...
_ Koph._ Constant Prayer for Faithfulness over against Opposition....
Hear my voice according unto Thy loving-kindness, on the basis of His mercy and grace alone, there being no merit on the psalmist's side which he might urge. O LORD, QUICKEN ME ACCORDING TO THY JUDGME...
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 119:149 Hear H8085 (H8798) voice H6963 lovingkindness H2617 LORD H3068 revive H2421 (H8761) justice H4941
Psalms 119:145. _I cried with my whole heart: hear me, O LORD: I will keep thy statutes._ In the time of trouble there is no resort like that of prayer, but it must be intense and earnest. «I cried w...
Psalms 119:145. _I cried with my whole heart; hear me. O LORD: I will keep thy statutes._ It is sweet to look back upon our prayers, if those prayers were uttered with our whole heart, for it is no s...
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...
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...
Isaiah 63:7; Psalms 109:21; Psalms 5:2; Psalms 5:3; Psalms 51:1;...
Judgment — According to thy word....