Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
Psalms 119:63
Verse Psalms 119:63. I am a companion] This was the natural consequence of his own conversion; he abandoned the workers of iniquity, and associated with them that feared the Lord.
Verse Psalms 119:63. I am a companion] This was the natural consequence of his own conversion; he abandoned the workers of iniquity, and associated with them that feared the Lord.
I AM A COMPANION OF ALL THEM THAT FEAR THEE - I find my associates and friends among those who worship thee; not with the profane and the wicked. “A man is known by the company that he keeps;” and it...
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...
COMPANION. fellow of the same party. FEAR. revere....
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...
I am a companion of all them that fear thee, and of them that keep thy precepts. I AM A COMPANION OF ALL THEM THAT FEAR THEE, AND OF THEM THAT KEEP THY PRECEPTS. 'A man is known by his companions'...
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)....
חָבֵ֣ר אָ֭נִי לְ כָל ־אֲשֶׁ֣ר יְרֵא֑וּךָ וּ֝
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...
COMFORTED BY GOD'S JUDGMENTS Psalms 119:49 Rays of comfort begin to steal into the psalmist's heart. _Thou hast caused me to hope; this is my comfort in my affliction; thy statutes have been my songs...
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...
I [am] a (d) companion of all [them] that fear thee, and of them that keep thy precepts. (d) Not only in mutual consent, but also with aid and help....
CHETH. This eighth part of this lovely Psalm opens most beautifully, in which we clearly behold Jesus as the speaker. The royal Prophet, under the Spirit's influence (as Peter was commissioned to expl...
63._I am a companion to all those who fear thee _He does not simply speak of the brotherly love and concord which true believers cultivate among themselves, but intimates that, whenever he met with an...
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...
I [AM] A COMPANION OF ALL [THEM] THAT FEAR THEE,.... Not of the rich and mighty, much less of the wicked and ungodly; but of such who had the true fear of God upon their hearts, and before their eyes;...
I [am] a companion of all [them] that fear thee, and of them that keep thy precepts. Ver. 63. _I am a companion of all them_] Though never so mean, if there be _aliquid Christi_ in them. Grace is of...
_At midnight I will rise_ To praise thee in a solemn manner; not being contented with those short ejaculations he might have used lying in his bed; _because of thy righteous judgments_ That is, thy la...
57-64 True believers take the Lord for the portion of their inheritance, and nothing less will satisfy them. The psalmist prayed with his whole heart, knowing how to value the blessing he prayed for:...
Not excepting the poorest and meanest, whose society other princes disdain....
Psalms 119:63 companion H2270 fear H3372 (H8804) keep H8104 (H8802) precepts H6490 a companion -...
FEAR Also; (Psalms 119:74); (_ See Scofield) - (Psalms 19:9). _...
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 thought on my ways, and turned my feet unto Thy testimonies._ A GODLY LIFE I. The way into a godly life. “I thought.” Wonderful act is this; an act which no creature on earth bug man can perform....
_I am a companion of all them that fear Thee, and of them that keep Thy _precepts. GOOD SOCIETY God has made man for society and society for man. The society, however, to which the text points is th...
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 John 1:3; 1 John 3:14; 2 Corinthians 6:14; Malachi 3:16; P