Geneva Study Bible Commentary
Psalms 119:54
Thy statutes have been my songs in the house of my (e) pilgrimage.
(e) In the course of this life and sorrowful exit.
Thy statutes have been my songs in the house of my (e) pilgrimage.
(e) In the course of this life and sorrowful exit.
Verse Psalms 119:54. _THY STATUTES HAVE BEEN MY SONGS_] During our captivity all our consolation was derived from singing thy praises, and chanting among our fellow-captives portions of thy law, and t...
THY STATUTES - Thy law; thy commandments. HAVE BEEN MY SONGS - Have been to me a source of joy; have been my happiness, my consolation, my delight. I have found pleasure in meditating on them; I have...
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...
SONGS. Put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Subject), App-6, for the theme of my songs....
IN THE HOUSE OF MY PILGRIMAGE— According to the original, _The house of my pilgrimages:_ that is, "Whatever places I have wandered to, during Saul's persecution of me....
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...
Thy statutes have been my songs in the house of my pilgrimage. THY STATUTES HAVE BEEN MY SONGS IN THE HOUSE OF MY PILGRIMAGE. As the sojourner in a strange land sings the loved songs of his home an...
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...
'Melodies have thy statutes been to me in the house of my sojourning,' i.e. in this brief life: cp. Psalms 39:12....
Psalms 107:150 _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ THE WORD OF GOD PSALMS 119 JESUS SAID, "IF YOU LOVE ME YOU WILL OBEY ME" (JOHN 14:15)....
SONGS. — Or, _Thy statutes were my music in the house of my sojournings._ Possibly with reference to the exile (comp. Psalms 137:4), but with comparison with Psalms 119:9 (see Note), more probably the...
זְ֭מִרֹות הָֽיוּ ־לִ֥י חֻקֶּ֗יךָ בְּ בֵ֣ית מְ
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...
COMFORTED BY GOD'S JUDGMENTS Psalms 119:49 Rays of comfort begin to steal into the psalmist's heart. _Thou hast caused me to hope; this is my comfort in my affliction; thy statutes have been my songs...
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...
ZAIN. While we contemplate the ever-blessed Jesus thus hanging upon the promises of the Father, we may in him, and through him, humbly adopt the same language, and remind God our Father of all his cov...
54._Thy statutes have been my songs. _(419) He repeats in different words what he had formerly mentioned, that the law of God was his sole or special delight during all his life. Singing is an indicat...
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...
THY STATUTES HAVE BEEN MY SONGS IN THE HOUSE OF MY PILGRIMAGE. Meaning either his unsettled state, fleeing from place to place before Saul; or, literally, his house of cedar, his court and palace, whi...
Thy statutes have been my songs in the house of my pilgrimage. Ver. 54. _Thy statutes have been my songs_] Thy promises, which bind thee by grace, as statutes do us by duty, and are every whit as sur...
_Thy statutes have been my songs_ The matter of my songs, my delight and recreation; _in the house of my pilgrimage_ In this present world, wherein I am a pilgrim, as all my fathers were. _I have reme...
_ Zain._ Patience in Persecution and Crosses....
Thy statutes have been my songs in the house of my pilgrimage, that is, while the godless jeer with songs of mockery, he will uphold his courage with hymns of praise as long as he is in this earthly h...
49-56 Those that make God's promises their portion, may with humble boldness make them their plea. He that by his Spirit works faith in us, will work for us. The word of God speaks comfort in afflict...
MY SONGS; the matter of my songs, my delight and recreation. IN THE HOUSE OF MY PILGRIMAGE; either, 1. In this present world, which I do not own for my home, wherein I am a stranger and pilgrim, as a...
Psalms 119:54 statutes H2706 songs H2158 house H1004 pilgrimage H4033 Psalms 89:1,...
Psalms 119:19 , PSALMS 119:54 Taken together, these words set forth our condition as strangers and pilgrims on the earth, and God's bountiful provision for meeting that condition in Christ. I. The fa...
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...
_Thy statutes have been my songs in the house of my pilgrimage._ OBLIGATION A PRIVILEGE When the Eastern traveller takes shelter from the scorching heat of noon, or halts for the night in some inn or...
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...
Genesis 47:9; Hebrews 11:13; Psalms 1:1; Psalms 89:1...
The house — In this world, wherein I am a stranger and pilgrim, as all my fathers were....