Verse Psalms 119:133. Order my steps] הכן hachen, make them firm; let me not walk with a halting or unsteady step.
Have dominion over me.] בי bi, IN me. Let me have no governor but God; let the throne of my heart be filled by him, and none other.
ORDER MY STEPS IN THY WORD - My goings, or, my conduct and life - by thy word; according to thy requirements. Let me be wholly obedient to thy will. AND LET NOT ANY INIQUITY HAVE DOMINION OVER ME - Se...
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...
ORDER. Direct, or guide. IN. by. Some codices, with one early printed edition, Septuagint, and Vulgate, read "according to". INIQUITY. Hebrew. _aven_. App-44....
DISCOURSE: 710 THE CHRISTIAN’S CHIEF DESIRES Psalms 119:132. _Look thou upon me, and be merciful unto me, as thou usest to do unto those that love thy name. Order my steps in thy word: and let not an...
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...
Order my steps in thy word: and let not any iniquity have dominion over me. ORDER MY STEPS IN THY WORD: AND LET NOT ANY INIQUITY HAVE DOMINION OVER ME. The parallelism of the latter clause, to "ord...
119:133 iniquity (b-11) See Note m, Psalms 56:3 ....
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)....
HAVE DOMINION. — Or, _get the mastery._ The Arabic root cognate with the Hebrew of the word appears in the title _sultan._...
פְּ֭עָמַי הָכֵ֣ן בְּ אִמְרָתֶ֑ךָ וְֽ אַל ־תַּ
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...
WHY LOVE GOD'S WORD? Psalms 119:129 What a beautiful soul this is that utters itself in these stanzas! The psalmist acknowledges his simplicity; is quite content to be among the unknown and despised...
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...
PE. The verses in this portion form a beautiful reduplication of the same delightful truths. It is Jesus speaking through the whole of them, in his human nature, as the Head and Representative of his...
133._Direct my steps according to thy word. _By these words he shows, as he has often done before in other places, that the only rule of living well is for men to regulate themselves wholly by the law...
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...
ORDER MY STEPS IN THY WORD,.... Or, "by thy word" s, or "according" to it. Which is the rule of practice and action, as well as of faith; and happy are they who walk according to the directions of it;...
Order my steps in thy word: and let not any iniquity have dominion over me. Ver. 133. _Order my steps in thy word_] Let me walk as in a frame, walk by rule exactly, accurately, Ephesians 5:15. Here h...
_Look thou upon me_ Favourably, as the next clause explains it; _and be merciful unto me_ Let me taste the sweetness, and receive the gifts of thy mercy; let me have thy smiles, and the light of thy c...
Order my steps in Thy Word, making them firm in accordance with His promise, AND LET NOT ANY INIQUITY HAVE DOMINION OVER ME, which would cause him to stray from the path of rectitude and obedience to...
_ Pe._ The Need Of Spiritual Light in the Midst of Godlessness....
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...
ORDER MY STEPS; by thy grace direct and govern all my motions and actions. IN THY WORD; in the way prescribed in thy word; or, _by thy word_. Let thy Spirit accompany thy word, and ingraft it within m...
Psalms 119:133 Direct H3559 (H8685) steps H6471 word H565 iniquity H205 dominion H7980 (H8686) Order -...
Psalms 119:133 I. This verse recognises and accepts the obligation of moral order: "Order my steps." II. It fixes the legitimate source and centre of that order: "In Thy word." The Bible centres, re...
Psalms 119:129. _Thy testimonies are wonderful: therefore doth my soul keep them._ It is very wonderful that God should speak to us at all, and still more marvellous that he should write to us such a...
Psalms 119:129. _Thy testimonies are wonderful: therefore doth my soul keep them._ Every true believer admires God's Word; and, more than that, it amazes him: «Thy testimonies are wonderful.» View th...
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...
_I opened my mouth, and panted, for I longed for Thy commandments._ HOLY LONGINGS Here we have David desiring, praying, pleading, and setting forth very clearly what he pants after. May you and I ha...
_Look Thou upon me, and be merciful unto me._ PRAYER FOR MERCIES VOUCHSAFED TO THE GOOD I. Direction in the right way. We are all travellers on an unknown road, and we want direction. Order my foots...
_Order my steps in Thy Word: and let not any iniquity have dominion over _me_._ ORDERED STEPS I. Complete subservience to the will of God. 1. “Order.” He is a man who wishes to be under orders, he...
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 2:9; Psalms 19:13; Psalms 119:116; Psalms 121:3; Psalms 17:5
Steps — My motions and actions....