Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Psalms 119:32
Run — I will obey thy precepts with all readiness, fervency, and diligence. Enlarge — When thou shalt replenish my heart with wisdom, and love to thee and thy law.
Run — I will obey thy precepts with all readiness, fervency, and diligence. Enlarge — When thou shalt replenish my heart with wisdom, and love to thee and thy law.
Verse Psalms 119:32. _I WILL RUN_] The particle כי, which we translate _when_, should be translated _because: Because thou shalt enlarge_, or dilate, _my heart_; make plain my path by cleansing me fro...
I WILL RUN THE WAY OF THY COMMANDMENTS - That is, I will not merely keep them - which might be expressed by “I will walk in them,” but I will hasten to keep them; I will do it with alacrity, as when o...
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...
ENLARGE MY HEART. set my heart at liberty, as in Isa 60:5. 2 Corinthians 6:11; 2 Corinthians 6:13....
DISCOURSE: 699 CHRISTIAN EXPERIENCE Psalms 119:30. _I have chosen the way of truth: thy judgments have I laid before me. I have stuck unto thy testimonies: O Lord, put me not to shame! I will run the...
WHEN THOU SHALT ENLARGE MY HEART— _For thou enlargest my heart._ Mudge. Or, _Because thou hast dilated my heart._ This seems to come from one who feels his heart expanded, after some distress and heav...
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...
I will run the way of thy commandments, when thou shalt enlarge my heart. I WILL RUN THE WAY OF THY COMMANDMENTS, WHEN THOU SHALT ENLARGE MY HEART - when thou shalt have completely delivered me out...
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)....
RUN THE WAY. — Plainly the psalmist means that he will not only be able to walk in the Divine way, but even to run in it when certain restraints are removed which now confine and check him. Hence we m...
דֶּֽרֶךְ ־מִצְוֹתֶ֥יךָ אָר֑וּץ כִּ֖י תַרְחִ֣יב לִבִּֽי׃...
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...
I will run the way of thy commandments, when thou shalt (e) enlarge my heart. (e) By this he shows that we can neither choose good, cleave to God's word, nor turn forward in his way, unless he make o...
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...
32_I will run the way of thy commandments. _The meaning of the prophet is, that when God shall inspire him with love for his la he will be vigorous and ready, nay, even steady, so as not to faint in t...
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...
I WILL RUN THE WAY OF THY COMMANDMENTS,.... Not only walk but run in it; which is expressive of great affection to the commands of God, of great readiness and cheerfulness, of great haste and swiftnes...
I will run the way of thy commandments, when thou shalt enlarge my heart. Ver. 32. _I will run the way_] Do thy work with utmost diligence and delight, come off roundly and readily therein, take long...
_I will run the way of thy commandments_ I will obey thy precepts with all readiness, fervency, and diligence; _when thou shalt enlarge my heart_ When thou shalt replenish my heart with more knowledge...
I will run the way of Thy commandments, not with slow and lagging steps, but with cheerful eagerness, WHEN THOU SHALT ENLARGE MY HEART, because God widens and expands the heart of the faithful with su...
_ 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...
I WILL RUN THE WAY OF THY COMMANDMENTS, I will obey thy precepts with all readiness, fervency, and diligence, WHEN THOU SHALT ENLARGE MY HEART: either, 1. When thou shalt bring me out of my present st...
Psalms 119:32 run H7323 (H8799) course H1870 commandments H4687 enlarge H7337 (H8686) heart H3820 run -...
Psalms 119:32 There are two things especially remarkable in this Psalm: the variety of expressions used to describe the word of God and the corresponding variety of expressions used to describe the S...
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...
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...
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...
_I will run the way of Thy commandments, when Thou shalt enlarge my heart._ LIBERTY OF HEART I. Consciousness of actual captivity. The feeling may be illustrated by the case of a messenger in time of...
_I have chosen the way of truth: Thy judgments have I laid before me._ THE COMMENDABLE PAST AND THE DESIRABLE FUTURE IN LIFE I. The commendable in the past. 1. The best choice has been made. The wa...
THE WAY TO RUN I will run the way of thy commandments, When thou shalt enlarge my heart. Psalms 119:32. What are God's commandments? Well, He has given us ten of them in the Old Testament and Jesus...
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
PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 119:32 ENLARGE MY HEART. Or “make my heart broad.” See 1 Kings 4:29, where “breadth of heart or mind” is an expanded ability to understand God’s trut
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 9:24; 1 Kings 4:29; 1 Peter 2:16; 2 Corinthians 3:17;...