Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary
Psalms 119:5
My desires answer thy commands. Directed, or established, to wit, by thy grace and Holy Spirit; for the direction of God's word he had already.
My desires answer thy commands. Directed, or established, to wit, by thy grace and Holy Spirit; for the direction of God's word he had already.
Verse Psalms 119:5. _O THAT MY WAYS WERE DIRECTED_] "I wish that my way may be _confirmed_ to _keep thy statutes_." Without thee I can do nothing; my soul is _unstable_ and _fickle_; and it will conti...
O THAT MY WAYS WERE DIRECTED ... - Indicating the desire of the pious heart. That desire - a prevailing, constant, uniform desire - is to keep the law of God. It is the aim of the life; it is the supr...
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...
STATUTES. The ninth in order of the ten words. See App-73....
DISCOURSE: 695 PRACTICAL RELIGION ENFORCED Psalms 119:4. _Thou hast commanded us to keep thy precepts diligently: O that my ways were directed to keep thy statutes! Then shall I not he ashamed, when...
O THAT MY WAYS— The word here principally signifies, the motions and inclinations of the mind and heart, upon which all our actions depend. _When I have respect unto,_ in the next verse, is rendered b...
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...
O that my ways were directed to keep thy statutes! O THAT MY WAYS WERE DIRECTED - `confirmed,' (Hengstenberg: cf. Psalms 78:37; Psalms 51:10, margin.) Prepared, directed aright, and made stedfast ...
119:5 statutes! (f-10) As Exodus 12:24 . 22 times in this Psalm....
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)....
DIRECTED... — So LXX. and Vulg. The He brew is perhaps slightly different, _established,_ or settled. (See Proverbs 4:26.)...
אַ֭חֲלַי יִכֹּ֥נוּ דְרָכָ֗י לִ שְׁמֹ֥ר חֻקֶּֽיךָ׃...
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...
GOD'S WORD AN INNER POWER Psalms 119:1 This long and noble psalm is devoted to the praise of God's Word, which is mentioned in every verse but one, Psalms 119:122. Probably if we were to substitute _...
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...
(c) O that my ways were directed to keep thy statutes! (c) David acknowledges his imperfection, desiring God to reform it, that his life may be conformable to God's word....
Is prolonged. Hebrew, "is Meshec." (Haydock) --- But Houbigant rejects this as a place unknown; and the word may have the former signification, given by the Septuagint and St. Jerome. (Calmet) (Berthi...
Here again, we cannot possibly conceive that the word statutes hath a reference to the statutes of Moses. The law (saith an apostle) having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of t...
5_I wish that my ways may be directed _The original word כון, _kun, _is sometimes rendered to _establish, _and, accordingly, it may seem as if the prophet were soliciting for himself the virtue of per...
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...
O THAT MY WAYS WERE DIRECTED TO KEEP THY STATUTES!] The psalmist, sensible of his own inability, as every good man is, to keep the commands of God, prays for grace, direction, and assistance in it; th...
O that my ways were directed to keep thy statutes! Ver. 5. _O that my ways were directed, &c._] David can wish well to that perfection which he cannot attain unto. The whole life of a good Christian...
_Thou hast commanded us_, &c. Nor is it strange that thy people do so exactly and diligently observe thy precepts, because they are commanded so to do by thee, their sovereign Lord. _O that my ways we...
THE CHRISTIAN'S GOLDEN ABC OF THE PRAISE, POWER, AND VALUE OF GOD'S WORD. This beautiful psalm, whose writer is not known, is divided into twenty-two sections of eight verses each. All the verses in t...
O that my ways, the behavior of the believer in every condition in which he finds himself, WERE DIRECTED TO KEEP THY STATUTES, the express laws relating to the various relations in life!...
1-8 This psalm may be considered as the statement of a believer's experience. As far as our views, desires, and affections agree with what is here expressed, they come from the influences of the Holy...
Psalms 119:5 Oh H305 ways H1870 directed H3559 (H8735) keep H8104 (H8800) statutes H2706...
It is not easy to see the special subjects that are spoken of by David in each of the short portions of eight verses, yet I do not doubt that if each portion were very carefully examined, we should se...
The first eight verses of this Psalm, in the Hebrew, begin with the letter A, and the second eight begin with the letter B. The whole Psalm is the good man's alphabet; the Holy Spirit condescended to...
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...
_Blessed are the undefiled in the way, who walk in the law of the Lord._ MORAL LAW I. There is a Divine moral law for the regulation of moral life. The Creator has given a law to every creature He h...
_O that my ways were directed to keep Thy statutes! _ VIRTUOUS SOLICITUDE A solicitude to perform our duty, to practise holiness at all times, and to make a constant progress in it, is an essential...
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 119:5 The goal of the whole psalm is that each member of the congregation would share in this desire. ⇐...
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 Thessalonians 3:5; Psalms 51:10; Hebrews 13:21; Jeremiah 31:33;...
THE WONDERFUL WORD Psalms 119:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS When we hold the Bible in our hands we are holding a Book that is distinct from any and every other book the world has ever known. 1. IT IS DISTIN...