Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Psalms 119:25
The dust — I am in danger of present death: I am like one laid in the grave. Quicken — Preserve my life, or raise me out of the dust. Word — According to thy promise.
The dust — I am in danger of present death: I am like one laid in the grave. Quicken — Preserve my life, or raise me out of the dust. Word — According to thy promise.
LETTER ד DALETH. - _FOURTH DIVISION_ Verse Psalms 119:25. _MY SOUL CLEAVETH UNTO THE DUST_] It would be best to translate נפשי _naphshi, my life_; and then _cleaving to the dust_ may imply an apprehe...
MY SOUL CLEAVETH UNTO THE DUST - This commences a new division of the psalm, in which each verse begins with the “fourth” letter of the Hebrew alphabet - _Daleth_ (ד _d_), equivalent to the English “d...
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...
DUST. Put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Adjunct), App-6, for the dead, as in Psalms 30:9; Ecclesiastes 12:7. QUICKEN... ME. Give me life, or keep me alive. The first of nine prayers for quickenin...
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...
My soul cleaveth unto the dust: quicken thou me according to thy word. MY SOUL CLEAVETH UNTO THE DUST: QUICKEN THOU ME ACCORDING TO THY WORD. The first clause is from ; cf. ; . The dust is the plac...
119:25 quicken (f-8) The word has the double sense of 'making to live,' Job 33:4 , and 'keeping alive,' Genesis 7:3 ....
QUICKEN] i.e. revive....
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)....
DALETH. (25) CLEAVETH TO THE DUST. — The same figure is used in Psalms 22:29; Psalms 44:25, in the former of death, in the latter of deep degradation and dishonour. The prayer, “make me live,” sugges...
דָּֽבְקָ֣ה לֶ † עָפָ֣ר נַפְשִׁ֑י חַ֝יֵּ֗נִי כִּ...
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...
A PRAYER FOR UNDERSTANDING Psalms 119:17 These verses are full of yearning and unsatisfied desire. The soul breaks for longing, cleaves to the dust, and melts for heaviness. We are reminded of the co...
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...
DALETH. My soul cleaveth unto the (a) dust: quicken thou me according to thy word. (a) That is, it is almost brought to the grave and without your word I cannot live....
DALETH. These verses compose the fourth part of this divine Psalm. Whether David, the supposed writer of it, thus complains in himself; or whether it means the Son of David, who in another part declar...
25._My soul cleaveth to the dust _(409) He means that he had no more hope of life than if he had been shut up in the tomb; and this must be carefully attended to, that we my not become impatient and g...
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...
d DALETH.--THE FOURTH PART. Ver. 25. DALETH. MY SOUL CLEAVETH UNTO THE DUST,.... Either to the dust of death, having the sentence of it; being almost in despair of life, upon the brink of the grave s...
DALETH. My soul cleaveth unto the dust: quicken thou me according to thy word. Ver. 25. _My soul cleaveth unto the dust_] Those princes, my persecutors (Saul's counsellors), have brought me to death'...
_DALETH._ Psalms 119:25. _My soul cleaveth unto the dust_ That is, as some understand it, I am in danger of present death: I am like one laid in the grave; so this phrase is used Psalms 22:15. _Quicke...
My soul cleaveth unto the dust, is often in great spiritual depression; QUICKEN THOU ME, daily filling him with new life and strength, ACCORDING TO THY WORD, it being the privilege of the believers to...
_ Daleth._ The Grace of Being Confirmed in the Truth....
25-32 While the souls of the children of this world cleave to the earth as their portion, the children of light are greatly burdened, because of the remains of carnal affections in their hearts. It i...
DALETH MY SOUL CLEAVETH UNTO THE DUST; I am in evident danger of present death, through the rage and power of mine enemies; I am like one laid in the grave, without all hopes of recovery. So this phra...
Psalms 119:25 soul H5315 clings H1692 (H8804) dust H6083 Revive H2421 (H8761) word H1697 soul -...
Psalms 119:25 These words express, with great intensity of humiliation, a consciousness which is universal among all sincere Christians I mean, the power of the world and of the body over the soul. O...
By the help of God's Holy Spirit, this psalm may serve for the purposes of self-examination, for we may ask ourselves as we read, «Do I feel in that way? Are my prayers like those of this good man? Is...
Psalms 119:9. _Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way? by taking heed thereto according to thy word._ «Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way?» A vital and solemn question. His way is f...
Psalms 119:25. _My soul cleaveth unto the dust: quicken thou me according to thy word._ «I feel heavy, unhappy, dull: ‘My soul cleaveth unto the dust.' Or I feel worldly, lethargic, lifeless: ‘My sou...
Psalms 119:17. _Deal bountifully with thy servant, that I may live, and keep thy word._ O Lord, I am thy servant; yet, I pray thee, do not pay me wages according to my deserts, but according to the g...
Psalms 119:21. _Thou hast rebuked the proud that are cursed, which do err from thy commandments._ Wherever there is pride in the heart, there is sure to be error in the life. A proud man is wrong, to...
Psalms 119:25. _My soul cleaveth unto the dust:_ «It sticks to it as though it were glued to it; my soul cannot be lifted up, at least by myself, out of its sadness, and its earthiness.» The psalmist...
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...
_My soul cleaveth unto the dust: quicken Thou me according to Thy Word._ CLEAVING TO THE DUST Several verses of this long psalm begin with the same words: “My soul melteth away from very heaviness”;...
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...
2 Samuel 7:27; Colossians 143:11; Colossians 3:2; Colossians 71:20;...