Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary
Psalms 119:60
Being fully convinced of the necessity and excellency of obedience, I presently resolved upon it, and immediately put it in execution.
Being fully convinced of the necessity and excellency of obedience, I presently resolved upon it, and immediately put it in execution.
Verse Psalms 119:60. THIRDLY. - _I MADE HASTE, AND DELAYED NOT_] He did this with the utmost _speed_; and did not trifle with his convictions, nor seek to drown the voice of conscience. The original...
I MADE HASTE - This language further describes the process of conversion. There was no delay; there was no excuse offered. He acted at once under his conviction of what was right. He did not ask permi...
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...
DISCOURSE: 704 SERIOUS AND SPEEDY CONVERSION TO GOD RECOMMENDED Psalms 119:59. _I thought on my ways, and turned my feet unto thy testimonies. I made haste, and delayed not to keep thy commandments_....
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 made haste, and delayed not to keep thy commandments. I MADE HASTE - like Zaccheus (Luke 19:5), at the Lord's call. AND DELAYED NOT - like Felix, Acts 24:25; and the Athenians,...
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)....
חַ֭שְׁתִּי וְ לֹ֣א הִתְמַהְמָ֑הְתִּי לִ֝ שְׁמֹ֗ר...
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...
COMFORTED BY GOD'S JUDGMENTS Psalms 119:49 Rays of comfort begin to steal into the psalmist's heart. _Thou hast caused me to hope; this is my comfort in my affliction; thy statutes have been my songs...
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...
CHETH. This eighth part of this lovely Psalm opens most beautifully, in which we clearly behold Jesus as the speaker. The royal Prophet, under the Spirit's influence (as Peter was commissioned to expl...
60._I made haste _Though the words are in the past tense, they denote a continued act. The prophet declares with what promptitude he dedicated himself to the service of God. Diligence and dispatch dem...
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 MADE HASTE, AND DELAYED NOT TO KEEP THY COMMANDMENTS. As soon as he was sensible of his duty, he immediately complied with it; he consulted not with flesh and blood, but at once yielded a cheerful o...
I made haste, and delayed not to keep thy commandments. Ver. 60. _I made haste, and delayed not_] Heb. I distracted not myself about had-I-wist, but minded the one thing necessary. _Nolite tempus in...
_I thought on my ways_ I seriously considered both my former conduct, and my duty in all my future actions; _and turned my feet unto thy testimonies_ And finding my feet had too often swerved from the...
57-64 True believers take the Lord for the portion of their inheritance, and nothing less will satisfy them. The psalmist prayed with his whole heart, knowing how to value the blessing he prayed for:...
Psalms 119:60 haste H2363 (H8804) delay H4102 (H8701) keep H8104 (H8800) commandments H4687 made -...
Psalms 119:59 Such is the history of almost all solid conversion. The great destroyer of the souls of men, which throughout the whole world is so widely wasting, is not so much wilful, deliberate sin...
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...
_I made haste, and delayed not to keep Thy commandments._ THE FOLLY AND DANGER OF IRRESOLUTION AND DELAYING I. Consider the reasons and excuses which men pretend for delaying this necessary work, an...
_I thought on my ways, and turned my feet unto Thy testimonies._ A GODLY LIFE I. The way into a godly life. “I thought.” Wonderful act is this; an act which no creature on earth bug man can perform....
_I entreated Thy favour with my whole heart: be merciful unto me according to Thy Word._ THE DUTIES WHICH MARK THE COMMENCEMENT OF THE CHRISTIAN COURSE I. The consideration of our ways. 1. He betak...
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 119:59 WHEN I THINK ON MY WAYS. The believer considers his own character and conduct, in order to bring them into greater obedience to God’s commandments....
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...
Ecclesiastes 9:10; Ezekiel 10:6; Galatians 1:16; Proverbs 27:1;...