Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
Psalms 119:139
Verse Psalms 119:139. My zeal hath consumed me] My earnest desire to promote thy glory, and the pain I feel at seeing transgressions multiplied, have worn down both my flesh and spirits.
Verse Psalms 119:139. My zeal hath consumed me] My earnest desire to promote thy glory, and the pain I feel at seeing transgressions multiplied, have worn down both my flesh and spirits.
MY ZEAL HATH CONSUMED ME - Margin, “cut me off.” The word which is here translated “consumed” is rendered “cut off” in Lamentations 3:53; Job 23:17; Psalms 54:5;...
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...
MY ZEAL HATH CONSUMED ME— See Psalms 69:9. "My zeal towards thy law, which my enemies violate and contemn." The original of _very pure,_ in the next verse, is, _tried in the fire;_ an allusion to meta...
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...
My zeal hath consumed me, because mine enemies have forgotten thy words. MY ZEAL HATH CONSUMED ME - ( .) BECAUSE MINE ENEMIES HAVE FORGOTTEN THY WORDS - not from defect of memory, but wilfully acti...
119:139 oppressors (e-7) _ Tzar_ , or 'adversaries,' as Psalms 8:2 ; Psalms 108:13 ....
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)....
צִמְּתַ֥תְנִי קִנְאָתִ֑י כִּֽי ־שָׁכְח֖וּ דְבָרֶ֣יךָ צָרָֽי׃...
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...
TZADDI. In this portion is that memorable verse which throws a light upon the whole Psalm, and fully authorizes us to apply many parts of it directly to the person of Jesus. The passage is, My zeal ha...
139._My zeal hath consumed me. _(17) The Psalmist speaks of his persecutors, by whom it is certain he had been subjected to much trouble. But although they were virulent and cruel towards him, he avow...
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...
MY ZEAL HATH CONSUMED ME,.... Zeal for God and his glory, for his word and ordinances and worship; which is a fervour of the mind, burning love, and flaming affections for God, shown in a holy indigna...
My zeal hath consumed me, because mine enemies have forgotten thy words. Ver. 139. _My zeal hath consumed me_] Hath meagred and impaired me much. In the Hebrew the last letter is doubled, to increase...
_My zeal hath consumed me_ My zeal toward thy law, which my enemies violate and contemn. “Zeal is a high degree of love; and when the object of that love is ill treated, it vents itself in a mixture o...
_ Tzaddi._ The Proper Appreciation of the Word of God....
My zeal hath consumed me, has brought him near to destruction, has almost robbed him of his life, BECAUSE MINE ENEMIES HAVE FORGOTTEN THY WORDS. All believers, filled with true zeal for God and His Wo...
CONSUMED ME: _ Heb._ cut me off...
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...
HATH CONSUMED ME; I am tormented and cut to the heart with grief and anger at it. HAVE FORGOTTEN THY WORDS, i.e. despise and disobey them; which in Scripture use is oft called a forgetting of them, as...
Psalms 119:139 zeal H7068 consumed H6789 (H8765) enemies H6862 forgotten H7911 (H8804) words H1697 zeal -...
Psalms 119:137. _Righteous art thou, O LORD, and upright are thy judgments._ It is well to be able to say this when you are being tried, when the hand of God lies heavy upon you; it is hard to kick a...
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...
_Righteous art Thou, O Lord, and upright are Thy judgments._ THE TESTIMONY OF A TRIED SAINT I. His testimony concerning God. 1. Concerning the Divine character (verses 137,142). (1) God’s righteou...
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 Kings 19:10; 1 Kings 19:14; Acts 13:27; Acts 28:23; John 2:17;...