John Trapp Complete Commentary
Psalms 119:145
KOPH. I cried with [my] whole heart; hear me, O LORD: I will keep thy statutes.
Ver. 145. I cried with my whole heart] This showeth that he had not only a gift of prayer, but a spirit of prayer.
KOPH. I cried with [my] whole heart; hear me, O LORD: I will keep thy statutes.
Ver. 145. I cried with my whole heart] This showeth that he had not only a gift of prayer, but a spirit of prayer.
LETTER ק KOPH. - _NINETEENTH DIVISION_ Verse Psalms 119:145. _I CRIED WITH_ MY _WHOLE HEART_] The whole soul of the psalmist was engaged in this good work. He whose _whole heart_ cries to God will ne...
I CRIED WITH MY WHOLE HEART ... - This commences a new division of the psalm, indicated by the Hebrew letter _Koph_ (ק _q_), answering to our letter “k.” The expression “I cried with my whole heart” m...
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...
CRIED. called [unto Thee], as in Psalms 119:146. HEAR. answer....
DISCOURSE: 712 DAVID’S DESIRE TO SERVE GOD Psalms 119:145. _I cried with my whole heart; Hear me, O Lord: I will keep thy statutes. I cried unto thee; save me, and I shall keep thy testimonies. I pre...
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 cried with my whole heart; hear me, O LORD: I will keep thy statutes. I CRIED WITH MY WHOLE HEART; HEAR ME, O LORD, I WILL KEEP THY STATUTES - (.)...
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)....
קָרָ֣אתִי בְ כָל ־לֵ֭ב עֲנֵ֥נִי יְהוָ֗ה חֻקֶּ
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. I (a) cried with [my] whole heart; hear me, O LORD: I will keep thy statutes. (a) He shows that all his affection and whole heart were bent toward God to have help in his dangers....
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...
145_I have cried with my whole heart. _This verse may be so read and connected as that in the end of it the Psalmist may show what he desired in crying; (20) and thus the meaning would be, that as he...
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...
q, KOPH.--THE NINETEENTH PART. Ver. 145. KOPH. I CRIED WITH [MY] WHOLE HEART,.... Prayer is often expressed by crying; which sometimes signifies mental, and sometimes vocal prayer; and generally supp...
I cried with my whole heart, putting the full effort of his desire into his prayer; HEAR ME, O LORD! I WILL KEEP THY STATUTES, guarding the Word of the Lord as his precious treasure....
_ Koph._ Constant Prayer for Faithfulness over against Opposition....
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...
KOPH Ver. 145. No text from Poole on this verse....
Psalms 119:145 out H7121 (H8804) heart H3820 Hear H6030 (H8798) LORD H3068 keep H5341 (H8799) statutes...
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...
_I cried with my whole heart; hear me, O Lord: I will keep Thy statutes._ CRIES OF DISTRESS Do we, or do we not, desire to get rid of every evil way? Are we anxious to be sincere and without offence...
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 Samuel 1:10; 1 Samuel 1:15; Jeremiah 29:13; Psalms 102:1; Psal