Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Psalms 119:6
Respect — A due respect, which implies hearty affection, diligent study, and constant practice. To all — So as not to allow myself in any known sin, or in the neglect of any known duty.
Respect — A due respect, which implies hearty affection, diligent study, and constant practice. To all — So as not to allow myself in any known sin, or in the neglect of any known duty.
Verse Psalms 119:6. _THEN SHALL I NOT BE ASHAMED_] Every act of transgression in the wicked man tends to _harden his heart_; and render it _callous_. If a man who fears God is so unhappy as to fall i...
THEN SHALL I NOT BE ASHAMED - On the word ashamed, see Job 6:20, note; Psalms 25:2, note. The meaning here is, that he would not have occasion to be ashamed; he would not be disappointed; all his hope...
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...
ASHAMED. put to shame; not shame of conscience. COMMANDMENTS. The tenth in order of the ten words. See App-73....
DISCOURSE: 695 PRACTICAL RELIGION ENFORCED Psalms 119:4. _Thou hast commanded us to keep thy precepts diligently: O that my ways were directed to keep thy statutes! Then shall I not he ashamed, when...
O THAT MY WAYS— The word here principally signifies, the motions and inclinations of the mind and heart, upon which all our actions depend. _When I have respect unto,_ in the next verse, is rendered b...
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...
Then shall I not be ashamed, when I have respect unto all thy commandments. THEN SHALL I NOT BE ASHAMED, WHEN I HAVE RESPECT UNTO ALL THY COMMANDMENTS. I shall not be with shame disappointed in my...
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)....
HAVE RESPECT UNTO. — Literally, _look upon,_ or _into,_ as in a mirror. (Comp. James 1:23.) The Divine Law is as a mirror, which shows man his defects; the faithful, in looking in it, have no cause to...
אָ֥ז לֹא ־אֵבֹ֑ושׁ בְּ֝ הַבִּיטִ֗י אֶל ־כָּל
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...
GOD'S WORD AN INNER POWER Psalms 119:1 This long and noble psalm is devoted to the praise of God's Word, which is mentioned in every verse but one, Psalms 119:122. Probably if we were to substitute _...
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...
Here we find what confidence the truly regenerated soul is put in possession of, when living upon Jesus as Jehovah hath appointed. All the commandments will be alike the delight of such a soul. And th...
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...
THEN SHALL I NOT BE ASHAMED,.... Of hope in God, of a profession of faith in him, and of a conversation agreeable to it before men; nor of appearing before God in his house, worshipping him there; nor...
Then shall I not be ashamed, when I have respect unto all thy commandments. Ver. 6. _Then shall I not be ashamed_] _i.e._ I shall be highly honoured both by thee and all thy people; able to look thee...
_Thou hast commanded us_, &c. Nor is it strange that thy people do so exactly and diligently observe thy precepts, because they are commanded so to do by thee, their sovereign Lord. _O that my ways we...
THE CHRISTIAN'S GOLDEN ABC OF THE PRAISE, POWER, AND VALUE OF GOD'S WORD. This beautiful psalm, whose writer is not known, is divided into twenty-two sections of eight verses each. All the verses in t...
Then shall I not be ashamed, be brought to shame, heaped with disgrace, WHEN I HAVE RESPECT UNTO ALL THY COMMANDMENTS, those enjoining the good and forbidding the evil, to guard against both sins of c...
1-8 This psalm may be considered as the statement of a believer's experience. As far as our views, desires, and affections agree with what is here expressed, they come from the influences of the Holy...
THEN SHALL I NOT BE ASHAMED; either of my actions, or of my profession of religion, or of my hope and confidence in thy favour. When sinners shall be ashamed both here, ROMANS 6:21, and hereafter, DAN...
Psalms 119:6 ashamed H954 (H8799) look H5027 (H8687) commandments H4687 shall I - Psalms 119:31,...
It is not easy to see the special subjects that are spoken of by David in each of the short portions of eight verses, yet I do not doubt that if each portion were very carefully examined, we should se...
The first eight verses of this Psalm, in the Hebrew, begin with the letter A, and the second eight begin with the letter B. The whole Psalm is the good man's alphabet; the Holy Spirit condescended to...
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...
_Blessed are the undefiled in the way, who walk in the law of the Lord._ MORAL LAW I. There is a Divine moral law for the regulation of moral life. The Creator has given a law to every creature He h...
_Then shall I not be ashamed, when I have respect unto all Thy commandments._ A CLEAR CONSCIENCE We are not under the law, but under grace, yet are we not lawless, since we have become servants of G...
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 John 2:28; 1 John 3:20; 1 John 3:21; Daniel 12:2; Daniel 12:3;...
THE WONDERFUL WORD Psalms 119:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS When we hold the Bible in our hands we are holding a Book that is distinct from any and every other book the world has ever known. 1. IT IS DISTIN...