Verse Psalms 119:98. _WISER THAN MINE ENEMIES_] Some have thought that this Psalm was composed by _Daniel_, and that he speaks of himself in these verses. Being instructed by God, he was found to have...
THOU, THROUGH THY COMMANDMENTS - By the teaching and power of thy law. HAST MADE ME WISER THAN MINE ENEMIES - I have a better understanding of thee, of thy law, of the duties of this life, and in rega...
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...
DISCOURSE: 708 DAVID’S BOASTING EXPLAINED AND VINDICATED Psalms 119:97. _O how love I thy Law! It is my meditation all the day. Thou, through thy commandments, hast made me wiser than mine enemies: f...
FOR THEY ARE EVER WITH ME— _For they_ (i.e. thy commandments) _are ever with me,_ always before me, to direct and advise me in right, to exhort and restrain me from wrong. For the same reason Psalms 1...
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...
Thou through thy commandments hast made me wiser than mine enemies: for they are ever with me. THOU THROUGH THY COMMANDMENTS HAST MADE ME WISER THAN MINE ENEMIES - (.) With all their worldly shrewd...
119:98 wiser (e-5) Or 'Thou makest me wiser [through] thy commandments.' me. (f-14) Or 'for it is mine.'...
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)....
MEM. (98) Better, _Thy commandments make me wiser than my enemies._ The same correspondence of wisdom with loyal obedience to the Law is found in the Book of Proverbs....
מֵ֭ אֹ֣יְבַי תְּחַכְּמֵ֣נִי מִצְוֹתֶ֑ךָ כִּ֖י לְ...
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...
“THY WORD IS A LAMP, UNTO MY FEET” Psalms 119:97 The psalmist cries, _O how love I thy law!_ He then proceeds to say that he has become wiser than his enemies and has more understanding than all his...
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...
MEM. Reader! let us listen to these sweet words, as the words of Jesus. Let us beg of God the Holy Ghost to give us grace to feel and know our interest in what he here saith, from our interest in him....
98._Thou hast made me wiser than my adversaries _He here declares, that he was more learned than his adversaries, his instructors, and the aged, because he was a scholar of God’s law. It is in a diffe...
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...
THOU THROUGH THY COMMANDMENTS HAST MADE ME WISER THAN MINE ENEMIES,.... David had his enemies, as every good man has: and these are often cunning and crafty ones, at least in wickedness; many of them...
Thou through thy commandments hast made me wiser than mine enemies: for they [are] ever with me. Ver. 98. _Thou through thy commandments hast made me wiser than my enemies_] So that I outwit them; an...
_MEM._ Psalms 119:97. _O how I love thy law!_ O Lord, thou knowest my love to it is inexpressible: to then I appeal herein against all the censures and calumnies of my enemies to the contrary. _It is...
_ Mem._ God's Word the Essence of True Wisdom....
Thou through Thy commandments, by which He directed the entire conduct of His servant, HAST MADE ME WISER THAN MINE ENEMIES, who believed themselves to be people of superior intelligence in possessing...
THEY ARE EVER WITH ME: _ Heb._ it is ever with me...
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...
THOU, THROUGH THY COMMANDMENTS, HAST MADE ME WISER THAN MINE ENEMIES, because by that means I have thy wisdom to guide me, and thy power engaged to protect and save me; which is a more certain and eff...
Psalms 119:98 commandments H4687 wiser H2449 (H8762) enemies H341 (H8802) ever H5769 through -...
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,...
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...
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 Samuel 18:14; 1 Samuel 18:30; 1 Samuel 18:5; Colossians 3:16;...