Verse Psalms 119:101. _I HAVE REFRAINED MY FEET_] By avoiding all sin, the spirit of wisdom still continues to rest upon me....
I HAVE REFRAINED MY FEET FROM EVERY EVIL WAY - I have walked in the path which thy law marks out. I have avoided the way of wickedness, and have not yielded to the seductions of a sinful life. THAT I...
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...
EVIL. Hebrew. _ra'a'._ App-44. WAY. Including religious way, in the sense of Acts 9:2; Acts 19:9; Acts 19:23; Acts 24:14. Compare...
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...
I have refrained my feet from every evil way, that I might keep thy word. I HAVE REFRAINED MY FEET FROM EVERY EVIL WAY, THAT I MIGHT KEEP THY WORD. My object in refraining from all evil is not mer...
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)....
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....
101._I have restrained my feet from every evil path _He intimates that he proclaimed war against every vice, that he might wholly devote himself to the service of God. From this we learn the profitabl...
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...
I HAVE REFRAINED MY FEET FROM EVERY EVIL WAY,.... Of error or immorality, forbidden and condemned by the word of God; every way that is evil in itself, or leads to evil, and in which evil men walk; an...
_I have refrained my feet from every evil way, that I might keep thy word._ Ver. 101. _I have refrained my feet, &c._] I have clapped up my unruly affections close prisoners, and hampered them; aband...
_I have refrained, &c., from every evil way_ Every way which either is evil, or leads to evil; sin, and the temptations or occasions of sin; _that I might keep thy word_ Not for any worldly or carnal...
_ Mem._ God's Word the Essence of True Wisdom....
I have refrained my feet from every evil way, having gained the ability to mark and to shun wickedness in every form, THAT I MIGHT KEEP THY WORD, through which both knowledge and strength are given....
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...
EVIL WAY; or, _way of evil_; which either is evil, or leads to it; sin, and the temptations or occasions of sin. THAT, I MIGHT KEEP THY WORD; I did this not for any carnal reasons, as some men abstain...
Psalms 119:101 restrained H3607 (H8804) feet H7272 evil H7451 way H734 keep H8104 (H8799) word H1697...
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...
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...
Psalms 18:23; 1 Peter 2:1; 1 Peter 2:2; 1 Peter 3:10; 1 Peter 3:11;...