Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
Psalms 119:156
Verse 156. Great are thy tender mercies] They are רבים rabbim, multitudes. They extend to all the wretchednesses of all men.
Verse 156. Great are thy tender mercies] They are רבים rabbim, multitudes. They extend to all the wretchednesses of all men.
GREAT ARE THY TENDER MERCIES, O LORD - They are many, or multiplied. The word rendered “tender mercies” is the same which occurs in Psalms 40:11; Psalms 51:1; Psalms 69:16;...
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...
TENDER MERCIES. compassions....
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...
Great are thy tender mercies, O LORD: quicken me according to thy judgments. QUICKEN ME ACCORDING TO THY JUDGMENTS - (, note.)...
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)....
רַחֲמֶ֖יךָ רַבִּ֥ים ׀ יְהוָ֑ה כְּֽ מִשְׁפָּטֶ֥יךָ חַיֵּֽנִי׃...
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...
THE JOY OF COMMUNION WITH GOD Psalms 119:145 There is great eagerness in the psalmist's prayerfulness. He calls with his whole heart; he awakes before the dawn and continues long after the fall of ni...
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...
Great [are] thy tender mercies, O LORD: quicken me according to thy (b) judgments. (b) According to your promise made in the law, which because the wicked lack they have no hope of salvation....
RESH. The same cries of soul are continued through this portion as in the former; and we may, without any forced construction of the words, consider what is here said as peculiarly applicable to the m...
156._O Jehovah,! thy tender mercies are many; _as if he had said that no offenders are safe but those who betake themselves to the divine mercy. Farther, to encourage himself to approach God with the...
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...
GREAT [ARE] THY TENDER MERCIES, O LORD,.... Not his providential mercies only, which are many and undeserved, and constantly repeated; but his special mercies in Christ, which flow from the tenderness...
Great [are] thy tender mercies, O LORD: quicken me according to thy judgments. Ver. 156. _Great are thy tender mercies, &c._] Or, many and mother-like. This is great comfort to greatest sinners....
_ Resh._ The Increasing Confidence of the Believer....
Great are Thy tender mercies, O Lord, to which the inspired singer appeals throughout the psalm, to the unmerited favor of the Lord; QUICKEN ME ACCORDING TO THY JUDGMENTS, reviving his soul with the w...
GREAT: Or, many...
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...
According to the manner of thy administrations towards thy people, as PSALMS 119:149....
Psalms 119:156 Great H7227 mercies H7356 LORD H3068 Revive H2421 (H8761) judgments H4941 Great - Heb. Many are thy -...
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...
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 Chronicles 21:13; Isaiah 55:7; Isaiah 63:7; Psalms 51:1; Psalms 86