Verse Psalms 119:136. _RIVERS OF WATERS RUN DOWN MINE EYES_] How much had this blessed man the honour of God and the salvation of souls at heart! O for more of that spirit which mourns for the transgr...
RIVERS OF WATERS RUN DOWN MINE EYES - My heart is sad, and my eyes pour forth floods of tears. It is not a gentle weeping, but my eyes are like a fountain which pours out full-flowing streams. See Jer...
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...
RIVERS OF WATERS. Hebrew. _palgey-mayim._ See note on Proverbs 21:1. Eng. idiom. Floods of tears....
DISCOURSE: 711 REASONS FOR WEEPING OVER SINNERS Psalms 119:136. _Rivers of waters run down mine eyes, because they keep not thy law._ THE generality, if exhorted to labour for the salvation of others...
RIVERS OF WATERS RUN DOWN MINE EYES— _Mine eyes run down streams of water._ The genius of the language requires that it be so translated; not _streams of water come down mine eyes._ See Houb. and Mudg...
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...
Rivers of waters run down mine eyes, because they keep not thy law. RIVERS OF WATERS RUN DOWN MINE EYES, BECAUSE THEY KEEP NOT THY LAW - (; ; .) Hengstenberg translates, literally, 'Mine eyes come...
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)....
פַּלְגֵי ־מַ֭יִם יָרְד֣וּ עֵינָ֑י עַ֝֗ל לֹא ־
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...
WHY LOVE GOD'S WORD? Psalms 119:129 What a beautiful soul this is that utters itself in these stanzas! The psalmist acknowledges his simplicity; is quite content to be among the unknown and despised...
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...
Rivers of waters (d) run down mine eyes, because they keep not thy law. (d) He shows what should be the zeal of God's children when they see his word contemned....
PE. The verses in this portion form a beautiful reduplication of the same delightful truths. It is Jesus speaking through the whole of them, in his human nature, as the Head and Representative of his...
136._Rivers of waters run from my eyes. _(15) Here David affirms that he was inflamed with no ordinary zeal for the glory of God, inasmuch as he dissolved wholly into tears on account of the contempt...
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...
RIVERS OF WATERS RUN DOWN MINE EYES,.... That is, "out of" them; as the Syriac version: or, "mine eyes let down rivers of waters" t; see Lamentations 3:48; that is, an abundance of tears, which flowed...
Rivers of waters run down mine eyes, because they keep not thy law. Ver. 136. _Rivers of waters run down mine eyes_] My countenance is clouded, and even furrowed, with continual tears shed for thy di...
_Rivers of water run down mine eyes_, &c. Plentiful and perpetual tears, witnesses of the deep sorrow I feel on account of the dishonour which sinners do to thee, thy displeasure against them, and the...
_ Pe._ The Need Of Spiritual Light in the Midst of Godlessness....
Rivers of waters run down mine eyes, in deep grief and sorrow over the manner in which men reject the Lord and bring destruction upon themselves, BECAUSE THEY KEEP NOT THY LAW. It is not overweening p...
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...
RIVERS OF WATERS; plentiful and perpetual tears, witnesses of my deep sorrow for God's dishonour and displeasure, and for the miseries which sinners bring upon themselves and others. They, to wit, the...
Psalms 119:136 Rivers H6388 water H4325 down H3381 (H8804) eyes H5869 keep H8104 (H8804) law H8451...
Psalms 119:129. _Thy testimonies are wonderful: therefore doth my soul keep them._ It is very wonderful that God should speak to us at all, and still more marvellous that he should write to us such a...
Psalms 119:129. _Thy testimonies are wonderful: therefore doth my soul keep them._ Every true believer admires God's Word; and, more than that, it amazes him: «Thy testimonies are wonderful.» View th...
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...
_Rivers of waters run down mine eyes, because they keep not Thy law._ THE WAIL OF THE GOOD OVER THE SINS OF THE WORLD I. They are the tears of order. Discord in sound is a cause of distress to a soul...
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...
Rivers — Plentiful tears, witness of my deep sorrow for God's dishonour, and for the miseries which sinners bring upon themselves....