Verse Psalms 119:126. It is time for thee, Lord, to work] The time is fulfilled in which thou hast promised deliverance to thy people. They - the Babylonians,
Have made void thy law.] They have filled up the measure of their iniquities.
IT IS TIME FOR THEE, LORD, TO WORK - literally, “Time to do for Yahweh;” and the construction might be either that it is time to do (something) for Yahweh; or, that it is time for Yahweh himself to do...
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...
TO WORK: i.e. to intervene....
IT IS TIME FOR THEE, LORD, TO WORK— Or as some render it, _It is time to perform to the Lord._ Or, _it is time to execute judgment._ Bishop Hare. The phrase as it stands in our version, means the same...
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...
It is time for thee, LORD, to work: for they have made void thy law. IT IS TIME FOR THEE, LORD, TO WORK; (FOR) THEY HAVE MADE VOID THY LAW. "To work;" or, literally, 'to do (it)'-namely, to vindica...
119:126 work. (e-7) Or 'to act.' see Jeremiah 18:23 ....
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)....
THEY HAVE MADE VOID THY LAW. — Some treat the verse as parenthetical, but is it not that the irreligion of the wicked makes the Law even more dear to the psalmist? What they reject is to him priceless...
עֵ֭ת לַ עֲשֹׂ֣ות לַ יהוָ֑ה הֵ֝פֵ֗רוּ תֹּורָתֶ
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...
“TIME FOR THE LORD TO WORK” Psalms 119:113 There is an ineradicable difference between the child of God and evil-doers, and the believer does not want to be involved in their fate. Therefore he bids...
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...
[It is] (c) time for [thee], LORD, to work: [for] they have made void thy law. (c) The prophet shows that when the wicked have brought all things to confusion, and God's word to utter contempt, then...
AIN. How sweetly do these words become Christ! but who, except Christ, could ever use them? One might be led to conclude, from the very many similar examples we meet with in the book of Psalms, that t...
126._It is time for thee, O Jehovah! to be doing. _It being the object of the Prophet to imprecate upon the impious and wicked the vengeance which they have deserved, he says, that the fit time for ex...
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...
[IT IS] TIME FOR [THEE], LORD, TO WORK,.... To send the Messiah, to work righteousness; to fulfil the law, and vindicate the honour of it, broken by men. It was always a notion of the Jews that the ti...
Psalms 119:126 [It is] time for [thee], LORD, to work: [for] they have made void thy law. Ver. 126. _It is time for thee, Lord, to work_] For else what will become of thy great name, and of thy poor...
_It is time_ It is high time, or a fit season; _for thee, Lord, to work_ To put forth thy power for the vindication of thy own name and cause, and for the restraint and punishment of evildoers. _For t...
_ Ain._ The Proper Estimation of God's Word in the Midst of Oppression....
It is time for Thee, Lord, to work, all the signs and conditions of the times point to the urgent need of the Lord's interference; FOR THEY HAVE MADE VOID THY LAW, set aside His Word as no longer poss...
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...
IT IS TIME; it is high time, or a fit season. _To work_; to put forth thy power for the vindication of thy own name and cause, and for the restraint and punishment of evildoers. THEY, to wit, mine opp...
Psalms 119:126 time H6256 act H6213 (H8800) LORD H3068 regarded H6565 law H8451 void H6565 (H8689)...
Psalms 119:126 The text brings before us: I. A melancholy fact: "Men have made void Thy law." This might at first view seem impossible, as if it were the defeat of Omnipotence itself by the creature...
Psalms 119:119-19. _Thou putteth away all the wicked of the earth like dross: therefore I love thy testimonies. My flesh trembleth for fear of thee; and I am afraid of thy judgments. I have done judgm...
Psalms 119:1. _I hate vain thoughts: but thy law do I love._ Presumptuous thoughts, erroneous thoughts, wicked thoughts, foolish thoughts,-all three David hated. A good man ought to be a good hater,...
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...
_Deal with Thy servant according unto Thy mercy._ In these words we have a prayer I. For merciful treatment. 1. Not according to Thy justice. This would involve our ruin. 2. Not according to the m...
_It is time for Thee, Lord, to work: for they have made void Thy law._ “TIME FOR THEE TO WORK” The psalmist was surrounded, as would appear, by widespread defection from God’s law. But instead of tr...
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 119:126 TIME FOR THE LORD TO ACT. When God’s LAW HAS BEEN BROKEN by his own people and they seem to get away with it, it seems that God is inactive. This is a prayer
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...
Deuteronomy 32:36; Genesis 22:10; Genesis 22:11; Genesis 22:14;...
To work — To put forth thy power for the restraint of evil — doers. They — The wicked. Made void — Or, abrogated thy law, have openly cast off its authority....