Geneva Study Bible Commentary
Psalms 119:144
The righteousness of thy testimonies [is] everlasting: give me understanding, and I shall (d) live.
(d) So that the life of man without the knowledge of God is death.
The righteousness of thy testimonies [is] everlasting: give me understanding, and I shall (d) live.
(d) So that the life of man without the knowledge of God is death.
Verse Psalms 119:144. _THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF THY TESTIMONIES_ IS _EVERLASTING_] Thy _moral law_ was not made for _one people_, or for one _particular_ _time_; it is as imperishable as thy _nature_, and...
THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF THY TESTIMONIES - The principles of righteousness on which they are founded. Those testimonies - those laws - are not arbitrary, or the mere expressions of will. They are founded...
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...
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...
The righteousness of thy testimonies is everlasting: give me understanding, and I shall live. THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF THY TESTIMONIES IS EVERLASTING - (.) GIVE ME UNDERSTANDING, AND I SHALL LIVE - ...
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)....
צֶ֖דֶק עֵדְוֹתֶ֥יךָ לְ עֹולָ֗ם הֲבִינֵ֥נִי וְ...
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...
WHY LOVE GOD'S WORD? Psalms 119:129 What a beautiful soul this is that utters itself in these stanzas! The psalmist acknowledges his simplicity; is quite content to be among the unknown and despised...
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...
TZADDI. In this portion is that memorable verse which throws a light upon the whole Psalm, and fully authorizes us to apply many parts of it directly to the person of Jesus. The passage is, My zeal ha...
144._The righteousness of thy testimonies endureth forever. _The Psalmist repeats what he had already before stated, that there is a great dissimilarity between the righteousness of God’s testimonies...
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...
THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF THY TESTIMONIES [IS] EVERLASTING,.... Or, "for ever" b. The righteousness which they require, or which they publish; the righteousness revealed in the Gospel, which is the righteo...
The righteousness of thy testimonies [is] everlasting: give me understanding, and I shall live. Ver. 144. _The righteousness of thy testimonies, &c._] This is the same with Psalms 119:142 . _ Give me...
_Thy righteousness is an everlasting righteousness_ Constant and unchangeable, the same in all ages and places, and to all persons; of eternal truth and justice never to be dispensed with, nor to be m...
_ Tzaddi._ The Proper Appreciation of the Word of God....
The righteousness of Thy testimonies is everlasting, they had proved their. power in the past and would again do so in the future, upon this fact he could rely; GIVE ME UNDERSTANDING, AND I SHALL LIVE...
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...
I shall be kept from those sins which deserve and bring death....
Psalms 119:144 righteousness H6664 testimonies H5715 everlasting H5769 understanding H995 (H8685) live H2421 (H8799) righteousness
Psalms 119:137. _Righteous art thou, O LORD, and upright are thy judgments._ It is well to be able to say this when you are being tried, when the hand of God lies heavy upon you; it is hard to kick a...
Psalms 119:129. _Thy testimonies are wonderful: therefore doth my soul keep them._ It is very wonderful that God should speak to us at all, and still more marvellous that he should write to us such a...
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...
_Righteous art Thou, O Lord, and upright are Thy judgments._ THE TESTIMONY OF A TRIED SAINT I. His testimony concerning God. 1. Concerning the Divine character (verses 137,142). (1) God’s righteou...
_The righteousness of Thy testimonies is everlasting: give me understanding, and I shall live._ ALIVE I. Consider this prayer in its simplicity. 1. It is a suitable prayer for the awakened sinner....
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 5:20; 1 John 5:21; 1 Peter 1:23; 2 Corinthians 4:6; Daniel 1