Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible
Psalms 119:161
SCHIN.
(161) Princes. — Here again we have an indication of the national character of the psalm. It was the whole community which suffered from the intrigues and violence of princes.
SCHIN.
(161) Princes. — Here again we have an indication of the national character of the psalm. It was the whole community which suffered from the intrigues and violence of princes.
LETTER ש SCHIN. - _TWENTY-FIRST DIVISION_ Verse Psalms 119:161. _PRINCES HAVE PERSECUTED ME_] This may refer to what was done by _prime ministers_, and the rulers of provinces, to sour the king agai...
PRINCES HAVE PERSECUTED ME WITHOUT A CAUSE - This commences a new division of the psalm, indicated by the Hebrew letter _Schin_ (שׂ _ś_, and שׁ _sh_) - corresponding to our “s,” or “sh.” On the meani...
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...
PRINCES. Rulers. WORD. Same word as in Psalms 119:9. Some codices, with Septuagint and Vulgate, read "words" (plural)...
PRINCES— The rulers and prime ministers of thy kingdom. _But my heart standeth in awe;_ namely, so as to do nothing contrary to thy word in my own vindication. See 1 Samuel 24:6; 1 Samuel 26:9....
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...
Princes have persecuted me without a cause: but my heart standeth in awe of thy word. PRINCES HAVE PERSECUTED ME WITHOUT A CAUSE - as Saul did David (; ; ). Virtually Saul and his party were trying...
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...
PRINCES] probably it was Israel, i.e. the Jewish nation, that was so persecuted....
Psalms 107:150 _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ THE WORD OF GOD PSALMS 119 JESUS SAID, "IF YOU LOVE ME YOU WILL OBEY ME" (JOHN 14:15)....
שָׂ֭רִים רְדָפ֣וּנִי חִנָּ֑ם _וּ֝_†_מִ_†_דְּבָרְךָ֗_† פָּחַ֥ד...
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...
JEHOVAH INSPIRES CONTINUAL PRAISE Psalms 119:161 What a noble conclusion we reach in these closing stanzas! _I rejoice at thy word; thy law do I love; seven times a day do I praise thee; let my lips...
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...
SCHIN. Princes have (a) persecuted me without a cause: but my heart standeth in awe of thy word. (a) The threatenings and persecutions of princes could not cause me to cease to confess you whom I fea...
SCHIN. Still prosecuting the same subject of suffering, here are the same petitions lodged before the throne. The apostle to the Hebrews was commissioned by the Holy Ghost to teach the church some ver...
161_Princes have persecuted me without a cause. _(34) Here the Psalmist, informs us that sore and grievous as his temptation had been, he was restrained by the fear of God from desiring to attempt any...
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...
v, SCHIN.--THE TWENTY-FIRST PART. Ver. 161. SCHIN. PRINCES HAVE PERSECUTED ME WITHOUT A CAUSE,.... These were either the princes of the Philistines at the court of Achish; or the princes of Israel, w...
SCHIN. Princes have persecuted me without a cause: but my heart standeth in awe of thy word. Ver. 161. _Princes have persecuted me without a cause_] And _ Quae venit indigne poena, dolenda venit._...
_SCHIN._ Psalms 119:161. _Princes_ The rulers and prime ministers of thy kingdom; _have persecuted me_ Whom they ought to have used their authority to protect, knowing me to be innocent and injured; _...
Princes, the mighty and influential ones of the earth, HAVE PERSECUTED ME WITHOUT A CAUSE, although he had done nothing which might justly have provoked their hatred; BUT MY HEART STANDETH IN AWE OF T...
_ Schin_ (and _ Sin_) The Believer's Fellowship with God in Prayer....
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...
SCHIN Ver. 161. PRINCES; who had power to do it, and who ought to have used their authority to protect me, whom they knew to be innocent and injured. BUT MY HEART STANDETH IN AWE OF THY WORD; but I fe...
Psalms 119:161 Princes H8269 persecute H7291 (H8804) cause H2600 heart H3820 awe H6342 (H8804) word H1697...
Psalms 119:153. _Consider mine affliction, and deliver me: for I do not forget thy law._ As much as if he said, «Lord, I do not forget thee; do not forget me.» Thy grace has kept my memory; let thy g...
Psalms 119:145. _I cried with my whole heart: hear me, O LORD: I will keep thy statutes._ In the time of trouble there is no resort like that of prayer, but it must be intense and earnest. «I cried w...
Psalms 119:145. _I cried with my whole heart; hear me. O LORD: I will keep thy statutes._ It is sweet to look back upon our prayers, if those prayers were uttered with our whole heart, for it is no s...
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...
_Princes have persecuted me without a cause: but my heart standeth in awe of Thy Word._ A COMMON FACT AND A RARE EXPERIENCE I. A common fact. The history of persecution and martyrdom has been, if no...
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 Samuel 21:15; 1 Samuel 24:9; 1 Samuel 26:18; 2 Kings 22:19;...
But — But I feared thine offence and displeasure more than their wrath....