Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Psalms 119:40
Longed — After a more solid knowledge and constant performance of them. In — According to thy faithfulness.
Longed — After a more solid knowledge and constant performance of them. In — According to thy faithfulness.
Verse Psalms 119:40. _BEHOLD, I HAVE LONGED_] Thou searchest the heart; thou knowest that I have long desired thy salvation; thou seest that this desire still remains. Behold it! it is thy work; and t...
BEHOLD, I HAVE LONGED AFTER THY PRECEPTS - I have earnestly desired them. See the notes at Psalms 119:20. QUICKEN ME IN THY RIGHTEOUSNESS - Make me to live; to live in obedience to thy righteous laws....
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...
IN: or by. RIGHTEOUSNESS. Hebrew. _zedakah._ See App-73....
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...
Behold, I have longed after thy precepts: quicken me in thy righteousness. BEHOLD, I HAVE LONGED AFTER THY PRECEPTS: QUICKEN ME IN THY RIGHTEOUSNESS - according to thy righteousness, whereby thou...
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)....
QUICKEN ME IN THY RIGHTEOUSNESS — _i.e._, Let the sense of thy eternal justice give me vigour and life. Or the thought may be of the invigorating influence of a complete surrender to a righteous law,...
הִ֭נֵּה תָּאַ֣בְתִּי לְ פִקֻּדֶ֑יךָ בְּ צִדְקָתְךָ֥...
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...
Behold, I have longed after thy precepts: (f) quicken me in thy righteousness. (f) Give me strength to continue in your word even to the end....
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...
40._Behold, I have a desire to thy precepts _This is a repetition of what he declared a little before, with regard to his pious affection, and his love of righteousness; and that nothing was wanting b...
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...
BEHOLD, I HAVE LONGED AFTER THY PRECEPTS,.... After a greater degree of knowledge of them, and an opportunity of hearing them explained and enforced, and of yielding obedience to them; see Psalms 119...
Behold, I have longed after thy precepts: quicken me in thy righteousness. Ver. 40. _Behold, I have longed after thy precepts_] This he could boldly and safely say to God, offering himself to his tri...
_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....
Behold, I have longed after Thy precepts, with an urgent desire to be directed by the Word of God in his entire conduct; QUICKEN ME IN THY RIGHTEOUSNESS, filling the believer with life from above and...
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...
AFTER THY PRECEPTS; after a more solid knowledge and constant performance of thy precepts. QUICKEN ME; do thou preserve and maintain both my natural and spiritual life. IN THY RIGHTEOUSNESS; according...
Psalms 119:40 long H8373 (H8804) precepts H6490 Revive H2421 (H8761) righteousness H6666 I have -...
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...
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 Corinthians 15:45; 2 Corinthians 7:1; 3 John 1:2; Ephesians 2:5;...