Verse Psalms 119:75. I know - that thy judgments are right] All the dispensations of thy providence are laid in wisdom, and executed in mercy: let me see that it is through this wisdom and mercy that I have been afflicted.
I KNOW, O LORD - I feel assured; I entertain no doubt on the subject. This was the conviction of the mind of the psalmist in affliction. Mysterious as the trial may have been, hard as it may have been...
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...
RIGHT. righteousness, as in Psalms 119:7. AFFLICTED. humbled....
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 know, O LORD, that thy judgments are right, and that thou in faithfulness hast afflicted me. I KNOW, O LORD, THAT THY JUDGMENTS ARE RIGHT (LITERALLY, RIGHTEOUSNESS), AND THAT THOU IN FAITHFULNESS...
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)....
See Psalms 119:67....
יָדַ֣עְתִּי יְ֭הוָה כִּי ־צֶ֣דֶק מִשְׁפָּטֶ֑יךָ וֶ֝...
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...
PROFITING FROM AFFLICTION Psalms 119:65 _ Before I was afflicted, I went astray; it is good for me that I have been afflicted; thou in faithfulness hast afflicted me_. Here is the far-off interest of...
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...
JOD. With most peculiar reference to the ever-blessed Jesus must we read the opening of this portion. A body hast thou prepared me, was said by Christ when beholding the redemption work he came to per...
75_I have known, O Jehovah / that thy judgments are justice. _By _judgments, _in this psalm, we are to understand the precepts of the law; but as the prophet immediately adds, that he was justly chast...
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 KNOW, O LORD, THAT THY JUDGMENTS [ARE] RIGHT,.... His word, the doctrines and precepts of it, they are all consistent with the holiness and righteousness of God; and so are his judgments on wicked m...
I know, O LORD, that thy judgments [are] right, and [that] thou in faithfulness hast afflicted me. Ver. 75. _I know, O Lord, that thy judgments are right_] That is, that I suffer deservedly. To thee,...
_I know, O Lord_ By the convictions of my own conscience, and by experience; _that thy judgments are right_ That thy corrections, as the next clause explains this, are just and proper, and that _thou,...
_ Jod._ The Consolation of God's Providence and Government....
I know, O Lord, that Thy judgments, His decisions of condemnation as well as of approval, ARE RIGHT, they served for his benefit, for his salvation, AND THAT THOU IN FAITHFULNESS HAST AFFLICTED ME, de...
RIGHT: _ Heb._ righteousness...
73-80 God made us to serve him, and enjoy him; but by sin we have made ourselves unfit to serve him, and to enjoy him. We ought, therefore, continually to beseech him, by his Holy Spirit, to give us...
I KNOW by the convictions of my own conscience, and by experience. THY JUDGMENTS, i.e. thy corrections, as the next clause explains this. IN FAITHFULNESS; in pursuance of thy promises, and in order to...
Psalms 119:75 know H3045 (H8804) LORD H3068 judgments H4941 right H6664 faithfulness H530 afflicted H6031 (H8765)
In this Psalm we have, as it were, notes from David's pocket book. Psalms 119:73. _Thy hands have made me and fashioned me: give me understanding, that I may learn thy commandments._ This is a very...
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 know, O Lord, that Thy judgments are right, and that Thou in faithfulness hast afflicted me._ DIVINE RECTITUDE AND FIDELITY I. The truths declared. 1. In all the afflictive events of life, we ar...
_They that fear Thee will be glad when they nee me; because I have hoped in Thy Word._ THE GOOD MAN I. The spiritual interest of the good in each other (verse 74). In what, concerning each other, ar...
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...
Deuteronomy 32:4; Genesis 18:25; Hebrews 12:10; Hebrews 12:11;...
Judgments — Thy corrections. Of faithfulness — In pursuance of thy promises, and in order to my good....