Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary
Psalms 119:97
MEM O how love I thy law! O Lord, thou knowest it, and to thee I appeal herein against all the censures and calumnies of mine enemies to the contrary.
MEM O how love I thy law! O Lord, thou knowest it, and to thee I appeal herein against all the censures and calumnies of mine enemies to the contrary.
LETTER מ MEM. - _THIRTEENTH DIVISION_ Verse Psalms 119:97. _O HOW LOVE I THY LAW_] This is one of the strongest marks of a gracious and pious heart, cast in the mould of obedience. Such love the pre...
O HOW LOVE I THY LAW! - This commences a new division of the Psalm, indicated by the Hebrew letter Mem (מ _m_, “m”). The expression here, “O how love I thy law,” implies intense love - as if a man wer...
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: 708 DAVID’S BOASTING EXPLAINED AND VINDICATED Psalms 119:97. _O how love I thy Law! It is my meditation all the day. Thou, through thy commandments, hast made me wiser than mine enemies: f...
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 how love I thy law! it is my meditation all the day. O HOW LOVE I THY LAW! IT IS MY MEDITATION ALL THE DAY - (.) He says so, not to praise his own devotion, but the excellence of God's law, as w...
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)....
מָֽה ־אָהַ֥בְתִּי תֹורָתֶ֑ךָ כָּל ־הַ֝ יֹּ֗ום...
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...
“THY WORD IS A LAMP, UNTO MY FEET” Psalms 119:97 The psalmist cries, _O how love I thy law!_ He then proceeds to say that he has become wiser than his enemies and has more understanding than all his...
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...
MEM. O how love I thy law! it [is] my meditation (a) all the day. (a) He shows that we cannot love God's word unless we exercise ourselves in it and practise it....
MEM. Reader! let us listen to these sweet words, as the words of Jesus. Let us beg of God the Holy Ghost to give us grace to feel and know our interest in what he here saith, from our interest in him....
97._O how have I loved thy law! _Not contented with a simple affirmation, the prophet exclaims, by way of interrogation, that he was inflamed with incredible love to the law of God; and, in proof of t...
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...
m, MEM.--THE THIRTEENTH PART. Ver. 97. MEM. O HOW LOVE I THY LAW!.... The whole word of God, the preceptive part of it; the commands of the moral law, which are holy, just, and good, and to be loved:...
_MEM. O how love I thy law! it [is] my meditation all the day._ Ver. 97. _O how love I thy law!_] Such a pang of love he felt as could not otherwise be vented but by a pathetic exclamation; and this...
_MEM._ Psalms 119:97. _O how I love thy law!_ O Lord, thou knowest my love to it is inexpressible: to then I appeal herein against all the censures and calumnies of my enemies to the contrary. _It is...
Oh, how love I Thy Law! the entire instruction in God's holy Word, as the revelation of His holy will. IT IS MY MEDITATION ALL THE DAY; the longer he ponders upon it, the dearer it becomes to him....
_ Mem._ God's Word the Essence of True Wisdom....
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 119:97 love H157 (H8804) law H8451 meditation H7881 day H3117 O how - Psalms 119:48,...
Psalms 119:89. _For ever, O LORD, thy word is settled in heaven._ Other things come, and go, and change, moons wax and wane, tides ebb and flow, everything earthly is changeable; but «Thy word is set...
Psalms 119:89. _For ever, O LORD, thy word is settled in heaven._ It is not a changeable or vanishing thing: «Thy word is settled,» settled for ever, settled «for ever in heaven.» As God changes not,...
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...
_O how love I Thy law! it is my meditation all the day._ LOVE TO THE SCRIPTURES I. They are indubitably authenticated and divinely inspired. 1 The concurrent testimony of Jew and Gentile, of friend...
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...
Psalms 11:1; Deuteronomy 17:19; Deuteronomy 6:6; Joshua 1:8; Prove