Many [are] my persecutors and mine enemies; [yet] do I not decline from thy testimonies.
Ver. 157. Many are my persecutors] Truth never wanted an adversary; and goes seldom without a scratched face.
Yet do I not decline] But still adhere to thy word; when others fall off as fast as leaves fall from trees in autumn.
MANY ARE MY PERSECUTORS AND MINE ENEMIES - The thought here turns on the number of his enemies, and on the effect which numbers might have in turning one from the way of truth. We might meet one such...
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...
ENEMIES. adversaries: i.e. those who hem me in....
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...
Many are my persecutors and mine enemies; yet do I not decline from thy testimonies. YET DO I NOT DECLINE FROM THY TESTIMONIES - (; .)...
119:157 oppressors; (e-7) _ Tzar_ , or 'adversaries,' as Psalms 8:2 ; Psalms 108:13 ....
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)....
רַ֭בִּים רֹדְפַ֣י וְ צָרָ֑י מֵ֝ עֵדְוֹתֶ֗יךָ...
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...
157._My persecutors and oppressors are many. _The Psalmist here as in other places testifies, that although he had been provoked by many injuries, yet he had not departed from the right way; which, as...
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...
MANY [ARE] MY PERSECUTORS AND MINE ENEMIES,.... Because they were his enemies, therefore they were his persecutors; and they became enemies to him, or hated him, because of his religion, and on that a...
_Many are my persecutors_ David, being a public person, had many enemies. In this he was a type both of Christ and of his church. The enemies, the persecutors of both, are many, implacable and unweari...
_ Resh._ The Increasing Confidence of the Believer....
Many are my persecutors and mine enemies, their number increasing in proportion to his faithfulness to the Word; YET DO I NOT DECLINE FROM THY TESTIMONIES, refusing to be turned aside from the Word, w...
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...
Though they tempt me to do so, and persecute me because I will not do it....
Psalms 119:157 Many H7227 persecutors H7291 (H8802) enemies H6862 turn H5186 (H8804) testimonies H5715 Many -...
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...
_Many are my persecutors and mine enemies._ THE TRIALS AND TRAITS OF PIETY I. The trials of piety. They are twofold--objective and subjective. 1. Objective. “Many are my persecutors and enemies.” “...
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 Corinthians 15:58; Acts 20:23; Acts 20:24; Acts 4:27; Isaiah 42:4;...