Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Psalms 119:91
They — The heaven and the earth. Ordinances — As thou hast appointed. For — All things are subject to thy power and pleasure.
They — The heaven and the earth. Ordinances — As thou hast appointed. For — All things are subject to thy power and pleasure.
Verse Psalms 119:91. _THEY CONTINUE THIS DAY_] This verse should be thus read: _All are thy servants; therefore, they continue this day_ _according to thy ordinances_. "All the celestial bodies are go...
THEY CONTINUE THIS DAY ACCORDING TO THINE ORDINANCES - According to thy judgments (Hebrew); that is, thy commands. They “stand” (Hebrew) as thou hast appointed; they are what thou didst design them to...
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...
THEY: i.e. heaven and earth. CONTINUE. stand, as in Psalms 119:90. THIS DAY. [to] this day, or to-day. ORDINANCES. regulations. Hebrew. _mishpat._ The seventh of the ten words. App-73. Compare Psal...
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...
They continue this day according to thine ordinances: for all are thy servants. THEY CONTINUE THIS DAY ACCORDING TO THINE ORDINANCES: FOR ALL ARE THY SERVANTS. Muis translates, 'They continue (stan...
119:91 things (d-10) Strictly, 'all,' 'the whole.'...
THEY] i.e. the heavens and the earth....
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)....
THEY (the heavens and the earth) CONTINUE TO THIS DAY ACCORDING TO THINE ORDINANCES: FOR ALL (_i.e.,_ all creation) ARE THY SERVANTS. — In Hebrew _the all, i.e.,_ the universe. The parallelism is in t...
לְֽ֭ מִשְׁפָּטֶיךָ עָמְד֣וּ הַ יֹּ֑ום כִּ֖י ה
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...
THE WORD THAT STANDS FAST Psalms 119:81 They persecute wrongfully; they dig pits; they have almost consumed; they have waited to destroy; but thy Word abides steadfast. The driven soul flees to the...
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...
They (b) continue this day according to thine ordinances: for all [are] thy servants. (b) Seeing the earth and all creatures remain in that estate in which you have created them, much more your truth...
LAMED. Here is a beautiful address to Jehovah, in contemplation of his own eternal nature, the everlasting purposes and unchangeableness of his councils, and all his ordinances, providences, and dispe...
91._By thy judgments they continue to this day. _The word, היום, _hayom, _which, following other interpreters, I have translated _to this days might _not improperly _rendered daily, or every day. _In...
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...
THEY CONTINUE THIS DAY ACCORDING TO THINE ORDINANCES,.... That is, the heavens and the earth do, before mentioned, just as they were from the beginning of the creation. The heavenly bodies have the sa...
They continue this day according to thine ordinances: for all [are] thy servants. Ver. 91. _They continue this day_] God never brake promise with them, Jeremiah 33:20; Jeremiah 33:25, much less will...
_LAMED._ Psalms 119:89. _For ever, O Lord, thy word_, &c. The Hebrew may be rendered, _thou art for ever, O Lord, thy word_, &c. Or, _thy word, O Lord_, _is for ever; firmly fixed in heaven._ God's tr...
_ Lamed._ The Imperishable Nature of the Divine Word....
They continue this day according to Thine ordinances, the earth and all it contains being subject to His Word, obliged to carry out the dictates of His will; FOR ALL ARE THY SERVANTS, humbly obeying H...
89-96 The settling of God's word in heaven, is opposed to the changes and revolutions of the earth. And the engagements of God's covenant are established more firmly than the earth itself. All the cr...
THEY CONTINUE; the heaven and the earth last mentioned. ACCORDING TO THINE ORDINANCES; as thou hast appointed, and by virtue of thine appointment. ALL ARE THY SERVANTS; all things are subject to thy p...
Psalms 119:91 continue H5975 (H8804) day H3117 ordinances H4941 servants H5650 They continue this - Psalms 148:5-6;
Psalms 119:89 I. In the Bible usually the Word of the Lord means not only the message which God sends, but Him by whom God sends it. The Word of God, Word of the Lord, is spoken of again and again not...
Psalms 119:89. _For ever, O LORD, thy word is settled in heaven._ Other things come, and go, and change, moons wax and wane, tides ebb and flow, everything earthly is changeable; but «Thy word is set...
Psalms 119:89. _For ever, O LORD, thy word is settled in heaven._ It is not a changeable or vanishing thing: «Thy word is settled,» settled for ever, settled «for ever in heaven.» As God changes not,...
Psalms 119:81. _My soul fainteth for thy salvation: but I hope in thy word._ The ship rocks, but the anchor holds; the singer is ready to faint, but he is not ready to despair. He knows where his res...
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...
_For ever, O Lord, Thy Word is settled in heaven._ MY SOLACE IN AFFLICTION I. Here we have strong consolation in certain facts which he remembered. Fly ye to the mountains when the enemy invades the...
_All are Thy servants._ ALL THINGS ARE THY SERVANTS The psalmist finds God’s Word in nature, in the whole physical universe. To him the universal order spoke of One who ordered all things according t...
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...
Deuteronomy 4:19; Genesis 8:22; Isaiah 48:13; Jeremiah 33:25; Jo