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Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

Psalms 119:47

Verse Psalms 119:47. Thy commandments, which I have loved.] O shame to Christians who feel so little affection to the Gospel of Christ, when we see such cordial, conscientious, and inviolate attachment in a Jew to the laws and ordinances of Moses, that did not afford a thousandth part of the privileges!

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See also Psalms 119:47 in other biblical comments:

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    AND I WILL DELIGHT MYSELF ... - See the notes at Psalms 119:16....

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    HAVE LOVED. love. Septuagint adds "much"....

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    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...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    And I will delight myself in thy commandments, which I have loved. AND I WILL DELIGHT MYSELF IN THY COMMANDMENTS, WHICH I HAVE LOVED. Here he expresses his personal delight in () the private study...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    Psalms 107:150 _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ THE WORD OF GOD PSALMS 119 JESUS SAID, "IF YOU LOVE ME YOU WILL OBEY ME" (JOHN 14:15)....

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וְ אֶשְׁתַּֽעֲשַׁ֥ע בְּ מִצְוֹתֶ֗יךָ אֲשֶׁ֣ר אָהָֽבְתִּי׃...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    LOVE FOR GOD'S COMMANDS Psalms 119:33 Twice over the psalmist says, “thy commandments which I have loved,” and then proceeds to give the key to perfect love of them in the words, “I will _meditate_ i...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    V A U. The Reader will not need information that Jesus is Jehovah's salvation unto the ends of the earth; Isaiah 49:6. And the answers of Jesus to those that reproached him, are fully set forth in the...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    47._And I will delight myself _The sentiment contained in this verse is similar to that which he had previously mentioned. The amount is, he held the commandments of God in such high esteem, that he e...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    AND I WILL DELIGHT MYSELF IN THY COMMANDMENTS,.... In perusing and practising them; WHICH I HAVE LOVED; a good man loves the law of God, and the commandments of Christ, and delights in them after the...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And I will delight myself in thy commandments, which I have loved. Ver. 47. _And I will delight myself_] _sc._ In contemplation of thy word. Aristotle telleth us that the principal pleasure is to be...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _And I will walk at liberty_ Having then no such encumbrances upon me as I now have in these straits and difficulties which beset and burden me, I shall enjoy great freedom and comfort in thy ways, an...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    _ Vau._ The Need of a Fearless Confession of the Divine Truth....

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    And I will delight myself in Thy commandments, finding the greatest pleasure in studying Holy Writ more and more, WHICH I HAVE LOVED....

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    41-48 Lord, I have by faith thy mercies in view; let me by prayer prevail to obtain them. And when the salvation of the saints is completed, it will plainly appear that it was not in vain to trust in...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    Whereas other princes place their delight in the glories and vanities of this world, and the study and practice of religion is generally irksome and loathsome to them, thy law shall be my chief deligh...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Psalms 119:47 delight H8173 (H8698) commandments H4687 love H157 (H8804) I will delight - Psalms 119:16,...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    Psalms 119:47 The love of God's laws is to be distinguished from the mere outward observance of them. As in the law of Moses, so far more in the Gospel of Christ, religion is that of the heart, in the...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _So shall I keep Thy law continually for ever and ever._ A NOBLE RESOLUTION I. To be constantly obedient (verse 44). What is obedience? Not conformity to the letter of the law, but the incarnation o...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _And I will delight myself in Thy commandments, which I have loved._ GOD S COMMANDMENTS TO BE LOVED The love of God’s laws is certainly to be distinguished from the mere outward observance of them. A...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    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

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    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;...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Peter 19:7; 1 Peter 2:21; Job 23:11; Job 23:12; John 4:34;...

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