Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
Psalms 119:78
Verse Psalms 119:78. Let the proud be ashamed] To reduce a proud man to shame, is to humble him indeed. Let them be confounded. Without cause - without any colourable pretext, have they persecuted me.
Verse Psalms 119:78. Let the proud be ashamed] To reduce a proud man to shame, is to humble him indeed. Let them be confounded. Without cause - without any colourable pretext, have they persecuted me.
LET THE PROUD BE ASHAMED - Referring here to his enemies, who appear to have been in the higher ranks of life, or to have been those who prided themselves on their wealth, their station, or their infl...
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...
PROUD. insolent, or arrogant. PERVERSELY. with falsehood. WITHOUT. CAUSE. Compare John 15:25 with Romans 3:24 ("freely")....
FOR THEY DEALT PERVERSELY WITH ME— _For they causelessly wrest my steps._ The original has the signification of perverting, or wresting the steps of any one so as to throw him down, or trip up his hee...
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...
Let the proud be ashamed; for they dealt perversely with me without a cause: but I will meditate in thy precepts. LET THE PROUD BE ASHAMED (BE DISAPPOINTED IN THEIR HOPE OF DESTROYING ME); FOR THE...
119:78 towards (a-11) Or 'have subverted.' see Psalms 146:9 ; Lamentations 3:36 ....
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)....
DEALT. — Better, _wronged me;_ literally, _bent me._...
יֵבֹ֣שׁוּ זֵ֭דִים כִּי ־שֶׁ֣קֶר עִוְּת֑וּנִי אֲ֝נִ֗י...
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...
78._Let the proud be put to shame. _We have already often had occasion to remark, that, in the Hebrew language, the future tense is frequently used in the sense of the optative mood, as here, — They _...
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...
LET THE PROUD BE ASHAMED,.... The same persons he before speaks of as accursed, who had him in derision, and forged a lie against him. Here he prays that they might be ashamed of their scoffs and jeer...
Let the proud be ashamed; for they dealt perversely with me without a cause: [but] I will meditate in thy precepts. Ver. 78. _Let the proud be ashamed_] Theoderet thinks that David here prayeth not a...
_Let the proud be ashamed_ Confound all the proud contemners of thy law; let them be brought either to repentance or to shame; for they have dealt perversely with me, either by their calumnies, puttin...
_ Jod._ The Consolation of God's Providence and Government....
Let the proud, the arrogant mockers, BE ASHAMED; FOR THEY DEALT PERVERSELY WITH ME WITHOUT A CAUSE, both by intimating that his sufferings were an evidence of his rejection by God and by trying to dis...
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...
THEY DEALT PERVERSELY WITH ME, Heb. _they have perverted me_; either by their calumnies, whereby they have put false and perverse constructions upon all my words and actions; or by endeavouring to ove...
Psalms 119:78 proud H2086 ashamed H954 (H8799) wrongfully H5791 (H8765) falsehood H8267 meditate H7878 (H8799) pr
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...
_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...
1 Peter 2:20; 1 Samuel 24:10; 1 Samuel 24:17; 1 Samuel 26:18; Jo