Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary
Psalms 119:33
HE Or, that I may keep it, &c. That I may persevere; for apostacy proceeds from the want of a good understanding.
HE Or, that I may keep it, &c. That I may persevere; for apostacy proceeds from the want of a good understanding.
LETTER ה HE. - _FIFTH DIVISION_ Verse Psalms 119:33. _TEACH ME, O LORD, THE WAY OF THY STATUTES_] To understand the spiritual reference of all the statutes, c, under the law, required a teaching whic...
TEACH ME, O LORD, THE WAY OF THY STATUTES - This begins a new division of the psalm, indicated by the letter _He_ (ה _h_, or “h”). The word rendered “teach” means properly to throw, to cast, to hurl;...
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...
TEACH ME. Show, or make me to see....
UNTO THE END— _Quite through;_ the Hebrew is, עקב _eikeb, to the heel._ The force of the words seems to be, "Quite through, from head to foot." Mudge....
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...
Teach me, O LORD, the way of thy statutes; and I shall keep it unto the end. TEACH ME, O LORD, THE WAY OF THY STATUES, AND I SHALL KEEP IT (UNTO) THE END. So rightly supplies the ellipsis....
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)....
HE. (33) TO THE END. — See Psalms 119:112. This word, used adverbially, is peculiar to this psalm....
הֹורֵ֣נִי יְ֭הוָה דֶּ֥רֶךְ חֻקֶּ֗יךָ וְ אֶצְּרֶ֥נָּה...
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...
LOVE FOR GOD'S COMMANDS Psalms 119:33 Twice over the psalmist says, “thy commandments which I have loved,” and then proceeds to give the key to perfect love of them in the words, “I will _meditate_ i...
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...
HE. Teach (a) me, O LORD, the way of thy statutes; and I shall keep it [unto] the end. (a) He shows that he cannot follow on to the end, unless God teaches him often and leads him forward....
HE. How very beautiful is this portion of the psalm, considered as descriptive of the work of the Holy Ghost. It is his blessed province, and from his great love to the persons of Christ's people, he...
33._Teach me, O Jehovah/the way of thy statutes. _He again presents the same prayer which he has already frequently done in this psalm, it being of the last importance for us to know that the main thi...
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...
h, HE.--THE FIFTH PART. Ver. 33. HE. TEACH ME, O LORD, THE WAY OF THY STATUTES,.... Which they point unto, and direct to walk in; not only the statutes and ordinances themselves, the theory of them,...
HE. Teach me, O LORD, the way of thy statutes; and I shall keep it [unto] the end. Ver. 33. _Teach me, O Lord, the way of thy statutes_] Which is both hard to hit and dangerous to miss; teach me, the...
_HE._ Psalms 119:33. _Teach me, &c., and I will keep it_ Or, _that I may keep it;_ that I may persevere; for apostacy proceeds from the want of wisdom and understanding; _unto the end_ Hebrew, עקב, _t...
Teach me, O Lord, the way of Thy statutes, just what His holy will wants the believer to do in every situation in life; AND I SHALL KEEP IT UNTO THE END, sustained against apostasy by the power of God...
_ He._ The Constancy of the Believer Upheld and Nourished by God's Word....
33-40 Teach me thy statutes, not the mere words, but the way of applying them to myself. God, by his Spirit, gives a right understanding. But the Spirit of revelation in the word will not suffice, un...
Psalms 119:33 Teach H3384 (H8685) LORD H3068 way H1870 statutes H2706 keep H5341 (H8799) end H6118...
Psalms 119:33 , PSALMS 119:94 I. There are too many people in the world who pray to God to help them when they are in difficulties, or in danger, or in fear of death and of hell, but never pray at any...
Psalms 119:33 There were two thoughts in the Psalmist's mind: I. That there was something in the world which he must learn and would learn, for everything in this life and the next depended on his le...
Psalms 119:33. _Teach me, O Lord, the way of thy statutes;_ The psalmist is constantly talking about «the way.» We have that expression in the 27 th verse, then in the 29 th, the 30 th, and the 32 nd...
We have here some of the jottings from David's pocket-book, the notes of his experience as recorded in his diary. The whole Psalm is a great casket full of golden rings. They all fit one into the othe...
By the help of God's Holy Spirit, this psalm may serve for the purposes of self-examination, for we may ask ourselves as we read, «Do I feel in that way? Are my prayers like those of this good man? Is...
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...
_Teach me, O Lord, the way of Thy statutes; and I shall keep it unto the end._ ETHICAL INSTRUCTION I. Ethical instruction is instruction in duty. There is no knowledge so important as the knowledge o...
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 1:7; 1 Corinthians 1:8; 1 John 2:19; 1 John 2:20;...