Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Psalms 119:150
Nigh — To me, they are at hand and ready to seize upon me. Are far — They cast away from them all thoughts of thy law.
Nigh — To me, they are at hand and ready to seize upon me. Are far — They cast away from them all thoughts of thy law.
Verse Psalms 119:150. _THEY DRAW NIGH_] They are just at hand who seek to destroy me. _THEY ARE FAR FROM THY LAW._] They are _near_ to all _evil_, but _far_ from _thee_....
THEY DRAW NIGH - They follow me; they press hard upon me. THAT FOLLOW AFTER MISCHIEF - That seek to do me wrong. THEY ARE FAR FROM THY LAW - They yield no obedience to it; they are not influenced by...
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...
AFTER MISCHIEF. Some codices, with Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulgate, read "after me maliciously"....
THEY DRAW NIGH, &C.— _They draw near that pursue me with malicious subtlety: Men far removed from thy law._—Ver. 151. _Do thou draw near, O Lord, since all,_ &c. RESH....
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...
They draw nigh that follow after mischief: they are far from thy law. THEY DRAW NIGH THAT FOLLOW AFTER MISCHIEF: THEY ARE FAR FROM THY LAW. The more they draw nigh me for mischief-literally, preme...
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)....
NEAR. — Notice the antithesis. _They, the wicked,_ are _near_ with their temptation to sin and their hindrances to virtue. _Thou_ art near with the aid and support of Thy law....
קָ֭רְבוּ רֹדְפֵ֣י זִמָּ֑ה מִ תֹּורָתְךָ֥ רָחָֽקוּ׃...
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...
They draw nigh that follow after (c) mischief: they are far from thy law. (c) He shows the nature of the wicked to be to persecute against their conscience....
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...
150._The pursuers of malice have drawn near. _As the Hebrew word רודפי _rodphee, _translated _the pursuers of, _is put in the construct state, that is to say, as it is so related to the word זמה, _zim...
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...
THEY DRAW NIGH THAT FOLLOW AFTER MISCHIEF,.... Or "evil" c; that which is sinful in itself, and injurious to others. Some cannot sleep unless they do mischief; they are bent upon it, and proceed from...
They draw nigh that follow after mischief: they are far from thy law. Ver. 150. _They draw nigh that follow after mischief_] Those _scelerum assidui sectatores prompti sunt ac parati._ They are far...
_O Lord, quicken me_ Stir me up to love and serve thee, and make me vigorous, lively, and cheerful in thy work; _according to thy judgment_ According to thy word, which is often called God's judgment;...
_ Koph._ Constant Prayer for Faithfulness over against Opposition....
They draw nigh that follow after mischief, surrounding the Lord's servant with threats of violence; THEY ARE FAR FROM THY LAW, not guided by its precepts....
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...
THEY DRAW NIGH, to wit, to me, or against me, as PSALMS 27:2; they are at hand, and ready to seize upon me. THEY ARE FAR FROM THY LAW; they cast away far from them all thoughts of and respect to thy l...
Psalms 119:150 near H7126 (H8804) follow H7291 (H8802) wickedness H2154 far H7368 (H8804) law...
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...
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 23:16; 2 Samuel 17:16; Ephesians 2:13; Ephesians 2:14;...