RESH. Consider mine affliction, and deliver me: for I do not forget thy law.
Ver. 153. Consider mine affliction, and deliver me] Vide commiserationes oculis, look upon it, and let thine eye affect thy heart; say as once, "I have seen, I have seen the affliction of thy people."
LETTER ר RESH. - _TWENTIETH DIVISION_ Verse Psalms 119:153. _CONSIDER MINE AFFLICTION_] _See mine affliction_ or _humiliation_: but the _eye of the Lord affects his heart_; and therefore he never _s...
CONSIDER MINE AFFLICTION ... - This commences a new division of the psalm, indicated by the Hebrew letter _Resh_ (ר _r_), corresponding to our “r.” The prayer here is, that God would look upon his tri...
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...
DELIVER. Twenty-five Hebrew words so rendered. Here, _halaz =_ rescue (with. gentle hand); not the same word as in verses: Psalms 119:134; Psalms 119:154; Psalms 119:170....
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...
Consider mine affliction, and deliver me: for I do not forget thy law. CONSIDER MINE AFFLICTION, AND DELIVER ME; FOR I DO NOT FORGET THY LAW - (.)...
119:153 forgotten (h-12) Or 'I do not forget.'...
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)....
רְאֵֽה ־עָנְיִ֥י וְ חַלְּצֵ֑נִי כִּי ־תֹֽ֝ורָתְךָ֗...
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...
RESH. The same cries of soul are continued through this portion as in the former; and we may, without any forced construction of the words, consider what is here said as peculiarly applicable to the m...
153._Behold my affliction and rescue me. _The Psalmist teaches by his own example that those who are devoted to the service and fear of God, must not be discouraged though they are not rewarded for it...
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...
r, RESH.--THE TWENTIETH PART. Ver. 153. RESH. CONSIDER MINE AFFLICTION, AND DELIVER ME,.... Or, "look upon mine affliction" e; as in Psalms 25:18. The Lord seems as if he did not, when he does not gr...
Consider mine affliction, taking careful note of its severity, AND DELIVER ME; FOR I DO NOT FORGET THY LAW, and he sets up his childlike obedience as a reason why God should regard his prayer favorabl...
_ Resh._ The Increasing Confidence of the Believer....
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...
RESH Ver. 153. No text from Poole on this verse....
Psalms 119:153 Consider H7200 (H8798) affliction H6040 deliver H2502 (H8761) forget H7911 (H8804) law H8451
Psalms 119:153. _Consider mine affliction, and deliver me: for I do not forget thy law._ As much as if he said, «Lord, I do not forget thee; do not forget me.» Thy grace has kept my memory; let thy g...
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...
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...
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...
Exodus 3:7; Exodus 3:8; Lamentations 2:20; Lamentations 5:1; Nehemiah