Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible
Psalms 119:23
Speak. — Comp. Psalms 50:20 for the same implied sense in this verb. This verse reads as if Israel, and not a mere individual, were the subject of the psalms.
Speak. — Comp. Psalms 50:20 for the same implied sense in this verb. This verse reads as if Israel, and not a mere individual, were the subject of the psalms.
Verse Psalms 119:23. _PRINCES ALSO DID SIT_] It is very likely that the _nobles_ of Babylon did often, by wicked misrepresentations, render the minds of the kings of the empire evil affected towards t...
PRINCES ALSO DID SIT AND SPEAK AGAINST ME - This would have been applicable to David many times in his life, but it was also applicable to many others, and there is nothing in the language which would...
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 ALSO DID SIT AND SPEAK— _Though princes are continually consulting against me, thy servant will make thy ordinances his theme:_ Psalms 119:24. _For thy testimonies are my delight, thy statutes...
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 also did sit and speak against me: but thy servant did meditate in thy statutes. PRINCES ALSO DID SIT (AND) SPEAK AGAINST ME: (BUT) THY SERVANT DID MEDITATE IN THY STATUTES - (.) The shield...
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)....
גַּ֤ם יָֽשְׁב֣וּ שָׂ֭רִים בִּ֣י נִדְבָּ֑רוּ עַ֝בְדְּךָ֗...
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...
A PRAYER FOR UNDERSTANDING Psalms 119:17 These verses are full of yearning and unsatisfied desire. The soul breaks for longing, cleaves to the dust, and melts for heaviness. We are reminded of the co...
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...
(d) Princes also did sit [and] speak against me: [but] thy servant did meditate in thy statutes. (d) When the powers of the world gave false sentence against me, your word was a guide and counsellor...
GIMEL. Here are again many very gracious and fervent breathings after divine favor, which need nothing explanatory by way of comment. Some of them very highly correspond with what might be supposed to...
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...
PRINCES ALSO DID SIT [AND] SPEAK AGAINST ME,.... The princes in the court of Saul, who suggested to him that David sought his hurt; the princes of his own court, Absalom, his own son, a prince of the...
Princes also did sit [and] speak against me: [but] thy servant did meditate in thy statutes. Ver. 23. _Princes also did sit, &c._] By public invectives; such as were those of our Henry VIII, and of L...
_Remove from me reproach_ Which I suffer, and that unjustly, for thy sake; _for I have kept thy testimonies_ And therefore I am innocent of those things for which they censure and reproach me: or, and...
_ Gimel._ Prayer For Enlightenment Unto A Godly Life....
Princes also did sit and speak against me, for it is a sad fact that the mighty and influential people of the earth are in the majority in taking sides against God's revelation in the Bible: BUT THY S...
17-24 If God deals in strict justice with us, we all perish. We ought to spend our lives in his service; we shall find true life in keeping his word. Those that would see the wondrous things of God's...
DID SIT AND SPEAK; did speak against me continually, (for sitting notes continuance,) and when they sat upon their seats of judicature, and when they sat together in companies, entertaining one anothe...
Psalms 119:23 Princes H8269 sit H3427 (H8804) speak H1696 (H8738) servant H5650 meditates H7878 (H8799) statutes
Psalms 119:21. _Thou hast rebuked the proud that are cursed, which do err from thy commandments._ Wherever there is pride in the heart, there is sure to be error in the life. A proud man is wrong, to...
Psalms 119:17. _Deal bountifully with thy servant, that I may live, and keep thy word._ O Lord, I am thy servant; yet, I pray thee, do not pay me wages according to my deserts, but according to the g...
Psalms 119:9. _Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way? by taking heed thereto according to thy word._ «Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way?» A vital and solemn question. His way is f...
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...
_Remove from me reproach and contempt; for I have kept Thy testimonies._ SOCIAL CONTEMPT AND CONSCIOUS RECTITUDE I. Social contempt (verse 22). 1. Is a thing to be deprecated. 2. Is a thing not al...
_Princes also did sit and speak against me._ 1. It is a hard temptation when the godly are troubled by any wicked men; but much harder when they are troubled by men of honour and authority. (1) Firs...
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
PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 119:23 PRINCES. In this psalm, these are rulers among God’s people. They might use their power to control the faithful. See vv. Psalms 119:84,...
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 20:31; 1 Samuel 22:7; Luke 22:66; Luke 23:1; Luke 23:10;...
THE WONDERFUL WORD Psalms 119:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS When we hold the Bible in our hands we are holding a Book that is distinct from any and every other book the world has ever known. 1. IT IS DISTIN...