Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Psalms 119:165
Offend — Heb. they shall have no stumbling — block, at which they shall stumble and fall into mischief.
Offend — Heb. they shall have no stumbling — block, at which they shall stumble and fall into mischief.
Verse 165. _GREAT PEACE HAVE THEY_] They have peace in their conscience, and joy in the Holy Spirit; and _NOTHING SHALL OFFEND_] Stumble, or put them out of the way....
GREAT PEACE HAVE THEY - See the notes at Isaiah 26:3; compare the notes at Philippians 4:6. They have great calmness of mind. They are not troubled and anxious. They believe and feel that all things a...
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...
PEACE. Put by Figure of speech _Synecdoche_ (of Part), App-6, for every blessing connected with peace. OFFEND THEM. make them stumble....
DISCOURSE: 713 BLESSEDNESS OF THOSE WHO LOVE GOD’S LAW Psalms 119:165. _Great peace have they which love thy law: and nothing shall offend them._ THE force of principle is exceeding great, even where...
NOTHING SHALL OFFEND THEM— Or, according to the original, _There is no scandal to them: i.e._ "They shall fall upon no stumbling-block, into no snare which their enemies lay for them;" or, "They shall...
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...
Great peace have they which love thy law: and nothing shall offend them. GREAT PEACE HAVE THEY WHICH LOVE THY LAW - (; ; ). However the waves of trouble beat on them from without like a sea-washed...
119:165 them. (a-13) Or 'they have no stumbling-block.'...
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...
NOTHING SHALL OFFEND THEM] RV 'they have none occasion of stumbling.'...
Psalms 107:150 _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ THE WORD OF GOD PSALMS 119 JESUS SAID, "IF YOU LOVE ME YOU WILL OBEY ME" (JOHN 14:15)....
NOTHING SHALL OFFEND THEM. — See margin. Perhaps the verse should take the form of a wish: _great peace to the lovers of Thy law; no stumbling-block to them._ Or, it may be, _great peace have they who...
שָׁלֹ֣ום רָ֭ב לְ אֹהֲבֵ֣י תֹורָתֶ֑ךָ וְ אֵֽין
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...
JEHOVAH INSPIRES CONTINUAL PRAISE Psalms 119:161 What a noble conclusion we reach in these closing stanzas! _I rejoice at thy word; thy law do I love; seven times a day do I praise thee; let my lips...
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...
Great peace have they which (c) love thy law: and nothing shall offend them. (c) For their conscience assures them that they please you, whereas they who do not love you have the contrary....
SCHIN. Still prosecuting the same subject of suffering, here are the same petitions lodged before the throne. The apostle to the Hebrews was commissioned by the Holy Ghost to teach the church some ver...
165._Great peace have they who love thy law. _If we take the word _peace _for a prosperous or happy condition of life — a sense in which the Hebrews often employ it — the word rendered _stumbling-bloc...
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...
GREAT PEACE HAVE THEY WHICH LOVE THY LAW,.... The Targum adds, "in this world.'' Great prosperity, especially prosperity of soul, inward peace, peace of conscience, peace in Christ, and from him, fl...
Great peace have they which love thy law: and nothing shall offend them. Ver. 165. _Great peace have they which love thy law_] The fruit of righteousness shall be peace, Isaiah 32:17, even the peace...
_Great peace have they which love thy law_ Hebrew, _great peace is_, or _shall be, to the lovers of thy law_, that is, great inward peace, satisfaction, and tranquillity of mind, arising from the sens...
Great peace have they which love Thy Law, for in the midst of all the battles of life they have the assurance of the grace of God promised in the Word; AND NOTHING SHALL OFFEND THEM, causing the belie...
_ Schin_ (and _ Sin_) The Believer's Fellowship with God in Prayer....
NOTHING SHALL OFFEND THEM: _ Heb._ they shall have no stumbling block...
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...
GREAT PEACE; either outward prosperity and happiness, which God in his law hath expressly promised to good men; or at least inward peace, satisfaction and tranquility of mind, arising from the sense o...
Psalms 119:165 Great H7227 peace H7965 love H157 (H8802) law H8451 stumble H4383 Great -...
Psalms 119:165 In the margin of the Bible the latter words of this verse are rendered, "They shall have no stumbling-block." I. Consider the character of the parties whom the Psalmist describes: they...
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...
_Great peace have they which love Thy law: and nothing shall offend them._ THE GLOWING TESTIMONY OF THE GOOD This is the testimony of-- I. Philosophy. Moral remorse, malign passions, dark forebodin...
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 Peter 2:6; Galatians 5:22; Galatians 5:23; Galatians 6:15;...