Geneva Study Bible Commentary
Psalms 119:61
The bands of the wicked have (c) robbed me: [but] I have not forgotten thy law.
(c) They have gone about to draw me into their company.
The bands of the wicked have (c) robbed me: [but] I have not forgotten thy law.
(c) They have gone about to draw me into their company.
Verse Psalms 119:61. _THE BANDS OF THE WICKED HAVE ROBBED ME_] חבלי _chebley_, the _cables, cords_, or _snares_ of the wicked. They have _hunted_ us like wild beasts; many they have taken for prey, an...
THE BANDS OF THE WICKED - Margin, “companies.” The Hebrew word properly means a cord, a rope; then a snare, gin, net; then, a band or a company of men. The reference is to some time in the life of the...
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ROBBED. surrounded. Compare Sennacherib's investment of Hezekiah. See App-67....
THE BANDS OF THE WICKED, &C.— _The troops,_ &c. "I have been beset with troops of wicked men, who stripped me of all I had." Houbigant, after the LXX and Vulgate, reads, _The cords_ or _snares of the...
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The bands of the wicked have robbed me: but I have not forgotten thy law. THE BANDS OF THE WICKED HAVE ROBBED ME: BUT I HAVE NOT FORGOTTEN THY LAW. So Kimchi takes the verb from a Chaldee root [`aa...
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...
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THE BANDS... — Rather, _cords of the wicked surrounded me._ (See Psalms 18:5.) So all ancient versions except the Targum....
חֶבְלֵ֣י רְשָׁעִ֣ים עִוְּדֻ֑נִי תֹּֽ֝ורָתְךָ֗ לֹ֣א שָׁכָֽחְתִּי׃...
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...
CHETH. This eighth part of this lovely Psalm opens most beautifully, in which we clearly behold Jesus as the speaker. The royal Prophet, under the Spirit's influence (as Peter was commissioned to expl...
61._The cords of the wicked have caught hold of me. _Those who translate חבלי _, cheblei, _by _sorrows, _bring out no natural meaning, and perplex themselves as well as wrest the passage. Two readings...
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 BANDS OF THE WICKED HAVE ROBBED ME,.... Very probably Saul and his ministers seized on his effects, when he fled from him; and the Amalekites plundered him of all his substance, when they took Zik...
The bands of the wicked have robbed me: [but] I have not forgotten thy law. Ver. 61. _The bands of the wicked have robbed me_] In these late stripping times many a poor man's whole life's settings we...
_I thought on my ways_ I seriously considered both my former conduct, and my duty in all my future actions; _and turned my feet unto thy testimonies_ And finding my feet had too often swerved from the...
BANDS: Or, companies...
57-64 True believers take the Lord for the portion of their inheritance, and nothing less will satisfy them. The psalmist prayed with his whole heart, knowing how to value the blessing he prayed for:...
ROBBED ME; or, _made a prey of me_; done me many injuries for my respect to thy law....
Psalms 119:61 cords H2256 wicked H7563 bound H5749 (H8765) forgotten H7911 (H8804) law H8451 The bands - or, The companies,...
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...
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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 24:9; 1 Samuel 26:9; 1 Samuel 30:3; Hosea 6:9; Job 1:17;...
Robbed — Done me many injuries, for my respect to thy law....