Geneva Study Bible Commentary
Psalms 119:119
Thou puttest away all the wicked of the earth [like] (e) dross: therefore I love thy testimonies.
(e) Which infected your people, as dross does metal.
Thou puttest away all the wicked of the earth [like] (e) dross: therefore I love thy testimonies.
(e) Which infected your people, as dross does metal.
Verse Psalms 119:119. _THOU PUTTEST AWAY ALL THE WICKED OF THE EARTH_ LIKE _DROSS_] There is no _true metal_ in them: when they are tried by the _refining fire_, they are burnt up; they fly off in fu...
THOU PUTTEST AWAY ALL THE WICKED OF THE EARTH - Margin, “causest to cease.” Literally: “Dross ... thou makest all the wicked of the earth to cease.” They are seen by the psalmist as dross, and then he...
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...
THOU PUTTEST AWAY. Septuagint and Vulg, read "I have accounted"....
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...
Thou puttest away all the wicked of the earth like dross: therefore I love thy testimonies. THOU PUTTEST AWAY ALL THE WICKED OF THE EARTH (LIKE) DROSS - (Ezekiel 22:18.) This shall be fully realize...
119:119 away (c-3) For 'puttest away' some read 'accountest.' For 'dross' LXX has 'transgressors.' earth (d-9) Or 'land.'...
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)....
THOU PUTTEST AWAY. — For this common Scriptural figure comp. Jeremiah 6:28; Ezekiel 22:18. This is indeed a process which is continually going on, and it is one test of the true religious character th...
סִגִ֗ים הִשְׁבַּ֥תָּ כָל ־רִשְׁעֵי ־אָ֑רֶץ לָ֝כֵ֗ן...
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...
“TIME FOR THE LORD TO WORK” Psalms 119:113 There is an ineradicable difference between the child of God and evil-doers, and the believer does not want to be involved in their fate. Therefore he bids...
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...
SAMECH. After the observations which have been proposed upon the foregoing portions of this most blessed Psalm, the Reader will not be surprised, neither, I hope, offended, if I go on to accept this p...
119._Thou hast made all the wicked of the earth to cease as dross. _The meaning of this verse is similar to that of the preceding. By the similitude employed, there is described a sudden and an unexpe...
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...
THOU PUTTEST AWAY ALL THE WICKED OF THE EARTH [LIKE] DROSS,.... Which is of no worth and value, useless and unprofitable; which is cast into the fire, and separated from the choice metal. This express...
Thou puttest away all the wicked of the earth [like] dross: therefore I love thy testimonies. Ver. 119. _Thou pullest away all the wicked of the earth like dross_] Consuming them in the fire of thy w...
_Thou hast trodden down all them that err_, &c. Thou hast brought them to ruin, utter and shameful ruin; thou hast made them thy footstool. He seems to speak of those proud persecutors who trampled up...
Thou put test away all the wicked of the earth like dross, the slag, or refuse, left in the smelters after the pure metals have been gained from the ore, such dross being discarded and dumped out; THE...
_ Samech._ The Need of a Firm Stand for the Truth of God's Word....
PUTTEST AWAY: _ Heb._ causeth to cease...
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...
THOU PUTTEST AWAY; thou removest them from thy presence, and from the society of thy people, and from the land of the living. LIKE DROSS; which, though for a season it be mixed with gold or silver, is...
Psalms 119:119 away H7673 (H8689) wicked H7563 earth H776 dross H5509 love H157 (H8804) testimonies H5713...
Psalms 119:119-19. _Thou putteth away all the wicked of the earth like dross: therefore I love thy testimonies. My flesh trembleth for fear of thee; and I am afraid of thy judgments. I have done judgm...
Psalms 119:1. _I hate vain thoughts: but thy law do I love._ Presumptuous thoughts, erroneous thoughts, wicked thoughts, foolish thoughts,-all three David hated. A good man ought to be a good hater,...
The proper way in which to read these verses is to peruse them in the spirit of prayer, turning every verse into a personal supplication to God. I do trust that many of us may be so in the Spirit toda...
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...
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...
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 Samuel 15:23; Ezekiel 22:18; Jeremiah 6:30; Malachi 3:2; Malachi 3:3