Geneva Study Bible Commentary
Psalms 119:109
My (d) soul [is] continually in my hand: yet do I not forget thy law.
(d) That is, I am in continual danger of my life.
My (d) soul [is] continually in my hand: yet do I not forget thy law.
(d) That is, I am in continual danger of my life.
Verse Psalms 119:109. _MY SOUL_ IS _CONTINUALLY IN MY HAND_] נפשי _naphshi,_ _my life_; that is, it is in _constant danger_, every hour I am on the confines of death. The expression signifies to be i...
MY SOUL IS CONTINUALLY IN MY HAND - The Septuagint renders this, “My soul is always in thy hands,” but the Hebrew will not admit of this construction. The idea in the original is that his soul - his l...
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...
IN MY HAND. An idiom for great danger. Compare Judges 12:3. 1Sa 19:5. 1 Samuel 28:21.Job 13:14....
MY SOUL IS CONTINUALLY IN MY HAND— See Job 13:14. Some copies read _thy hand,_ and they are followed by Appolinarius, and the Ethiopic and Arabic versions: but the present seems the more proper readin...
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...
My soul is continually in my hand: yet do I not forget thy law. MY SOUL IS CONTINUALLY IN MY HAND: YET DO I NOT FORGET THY LAW - i:e., my life is in continual danger: like those who carry anything...
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...
MY SOUL, etc.] i.e. my life is ever in jeopardy....
Psalms 107:150 _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ THE WORD OF GOD PSALMS 119 JESUS SAID, "IF YOU LOVE ME YOU WILL OBEY ME" (JOHN 14:15)....
MY SOUL. — For this figure of peril see Judges 12:3; 1 Samuel 19:5, &c....
נַפְשִׁ֣י בְ כַפִּ֣י תָמִ֑יד וְ֝ תֹֽורָתְךָ֗...
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...
“THY WORD IS A LAMP, UNTO MY FEET” Psalms 119:97 The psalmist cries, _O how love I thy law!_ He then proceeds to say that he has become wiser than his enemies and has more understanding than all his...
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...
NUN. I pass over several very interesting observations which might be offered on the verses in this portion, (for there is not a part of them but is well calculated to make our meditation sweet); but...
109._My soul is continually in my hand. _He declares, that no calamities, afflictions, or dangers, which he had experienced: had withdrawn him from the service of God, and the observance of his law. _...
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...
MY SOUL [IS] CONTINUALLY IN MY HAND,.... In the utmost jeopardy, always exposed to danger, ever delivered unto death; killed all the day long, or liable to be so: this is the sense of the phrase; see...
My soul [is] continually in my hand: yet do I not forget thy law. Ver. 109. My soul (or life) is continually in my hand] _i.e._ Continually hazarded and ready to be laid down for righteousness' sake....
_My soul is continually in my hand_ Exposed to perpetual and extreme danger, as any precious and frail thing is which a man carries openly in his hand, and which he may easily let fall, or be deprived...
My soul is continually in my hand, he realizes that death may seize him at any time, and therefore is always prepared for it; YET DO I NOT FORGET THY LAW, his constant remembrance of the Word of God,...
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...
IN MY HAND; exposed to perpetual and extreme danger, as any precious and frail thing is which a man carrieth openly in his hand, whence it may easily fall or be snatched away by a violent hand. See th...
Psalms 119:109 life H5315 continually H8548 hand H3709 forget H7911 (H8804) law H8451 My soul -...
Psalms 119:109 The character of Isaiah. I. The character of Isaiah is apparent through his writings, in all its clear and separate parts, as the pebbles of a beach seen at the bottom of translucent w...
We will read tonight two of the stanzas which make up the 119 th Psalm, beginning at the 105 th verse. Psalms 119:105. _Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path._ God's Word is full...
Psalms 119:105. _Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path._ We are walkers through the city of this world, and we are often called to go out into its darkness; let us never venture t...
Psalms 119:89. _For ever, O LORD, thy word is settled in heaven._ Other things come, and go, and change, moons wax and wane, tides ebb and flow, everything earthly is changeable; but «Thy word is set...
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...
_My soul is continually in my hand._ RELIGION Religion is here presented in three aspects. I. As a deeply felt need in the immediate prospect of death. “My soul is continually in my hand.” That is,...
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 Corinthians 15:31; 1 Samuel 19:5; 1 Samuel 20:3; 2 Corinthians 11:23;...
Is — Exposed to perpetual danger....