Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Psalms 119:39
I fear — For my instability in thy ways; which in respect to my own weakness, I have great cause to fear.
I fear — For my instability in thy ways; which in respect to my own weakness, I have great cause to fear.
Verse Psalms 119:39. _TURN AWAY MY REPROACH, WHICH I FEAR_] This may be understood of the reproach which a man may meet with in consequence of living a godly life, for such a life was never _fashiona...
TURN AWAY MY REPROACH - The reproach which is likely to come upon me from being a professed worshipper of God. In all ages good men have been exposed to this reproach. WHICH I FEAR - Which I have reas...
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...
FEAR. dread....
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...
Turn away my reproach which I fear: for thy judgments are good. TURN AWAY MY REPROACH WHICH I FEAR. The reproach of the enemy makes the suppliant fear that he may come to a bad end at last (cf. ; )...
MY REPROACH WHICH I FEAR] viz. of sinning against God....
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)....
MY REPROACH WHICH I FEAR. — The word for fear is an unusual one, used in Deuteronomy 9:19; Deuteronomy 28:60, for very strong dread. The reproach may be either the disgrace in God’s sight of violating...
הַעֲבֵ֣ר חֶ֭רְפָּתִי אֲשֶׁ֣ר יָגֹ֑רְתִּי כִּ֖י מִשְׁפָּטֶ֣יךָ...
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...
LOVE FOR GOD'S COMMANDS Psalms 119:33 Twice over the psalmist says, “thy commandments which I have loved,” and then proceeds to give the key to perfect love of them in the words, “I will _meditate_ i...
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...
Turn away (e) my reproach which I fear: for thy judgments [are] good. (e) Let me not fall to your dishonour but let my heart still delight in your gracious word....
HE. How very beautiful is this portion of the psalm, considered as descriptive of the work of the Holy Ghost. It is his blessed province, and from his great love to the persons of Christ's people, he...
39._Take away my reproach. _It is not certain to what reproach he alludes. Knowing that many calumniators were on the watch to find occasion for reviling him, should they happen to detect him in any o...
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...
TURN AWAY MY REPROACH WHICH I FEAR,.... Either for the sake of religion, which was disagreeable to him; and he might be afraid it would be too heavy for him to bear, and be a temptation to him to fors...
Turn away my reproach which I fear: for thy judgments [are] good. Ver. 39. _Turn away my reproach_] Cover it, cure it, suffer it not to break forth, to my disgrace among men. _ For thy judgments are...
_Turn away my reproach which I fear_ For my instability in thy ways; which, in respect to my own weakness, I have great cause to fear; _I have longed after thy precepts_ After a more solid knowledge a...
_ He._ The Constancy of the Believer Upheld and Nourished by God's Word....
Turn away my reproach which I fear, namely, that of denying the Lord, or that of being unjustly accused of such denial; FOR THY JUDGMENTS ARE GOOD, the decisions of God's justice, as revealed in His W...
33-40 Teach me thy statutes, not the mere words, but the way of applying them to myself. God, by his Spirit, gives a right understanding. But the Spirit of revelation in the word will not suffice, un...
TURN AWAY MY REPROACH; either, 1. For the shameful disappointment of my hopes and confident boastings concerning the truth and certainty of thy promises; or, 2. For my manifold failings, and particu...
Psalms 119:39 away H5674 (H8685) reproach H2781 dread H3025 (H8804) judgments H4941 good H2896 Turn -...
Psalms 119:33. _Teach me, O Lord, the way of thy statutes;_ The psalmist is constantly talking about «the way.» We have that expression in the 27 th verse, then in the 29 th, the 30 th, and the 32 nd...
We have here some of the jottings from David's pocket-book, the notes of his experience as recorded in his diary. The whole Psalm is a great casket full of golden rings. They all fit one into the othe...
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...
_Turn away my reproach which I fear; for Thy judgments are good._ THE DREADED AND THE DESIRED I. What is here dreaded (verse 39). 1. Reproach is of two kinds. (1) The deserved. The man who is fals...
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 Timothy 3:7; 1 Timothy 5:14; 2 Samuel 12:14; Deuteronomy 4:8;...