instruction Or, correction; the whole discipline of moral education; a word occurring here only in the Psalter, but common in Proverbs, where it is the mark of the fool and the scorner to despise instruction. Cp. Deuteronomy 8:5; Deuteronomy 11:2.

and castest&c. Lit., and hast cast, flung them away out of sight and got rid of them. Contrast David's behaviour, Psalms 18:22. My wordsincludes all God's commandments, but points especially to the -ten words" of the Decalogue (Deuteronomy 4:13; cp. Exodus 20:1).

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