Geneva Study Bible Commentary
Psalms 119:83
For I am become like a (b) bottle in the smoke; [yet] do I not forget thy statutes.
(b) Like a skin bottle or bladder that is parched in the smoke.
For I am become like a (b) bottle in the smoke; [yet] do I not forget thy statutes.
(b) Like a skin bottle or bladder that is parched in the smoke.
Verse Psalms 119:83. _LIKE A BOTTLE IN THE SMOKE_] In the eastern countries their _bottles_ are made of _skins_; one of these hung in the smoke must soon be _parched_ and _shrivelled up_. This represe...
FOR I AM BECOME LIKE A BOTTLE IN THE SMOKE - Bottles in the East were commonly made of skins. See the notes at Matthew 9:17. Such “bottles,” hanging in tents where the smoke had little opportunity to...
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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...
BOTTLE. wine-skin: i.e. black and shrivelled. Compare Job 30:30....
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...
For I am become like a bottle in the smoke; yet do I not forget thy statutes. FOR I AM BECOME LIKE A BOTTLE IN THE SMOKE - my skin is become parched and shrivelled like an eastern wine bottle, made...
119:83 bottle (b-7) A leathern bottle....
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...
BOTTLE] RM 'wine skin.' Bottles were made of the untanned hide of an animal. In the smoke they would be dried up, shrivelled and useless. Such Israel seemed to be in captivity....
Psalms 107:150 _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ THE WORD OF GOD PSALMS 119 JESUS SAID, "IF YOU LOVE ME YOU WILL OBEY ME" (JOHN 14:15)....
A BOTTLE IN THE SMOKE. — The insertion of _yet_ by our translators shows that they understood this as a figure of abject misery. The wine-skin would, of course, shrivel, if hung above a fire, and woul...
כִּֽי ־הָ֭יִיתִי כְּ נֹ֣אד בְּ קִיטֹ֑ור חֻ֝קּ
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...
THE WORD THAT STANDS FAST Psalms 119:81 They persecute wrongfully; they dig pits; they have almost consumed; they have waited to destroy; but thy Word abides steadfast. The driven soul flees to the...
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...
CAPH. The opening of this portion is also very beautiful, in reference to the Lord Jesus, who waited with longing expectation for the time of his being manifested unto Israel. Hence we find him, in th...
83._For I have been as a bottle in the smoke. _(426) The particle כי,_ki, _translated _for, _might also, not improperly, be resolved into the adverb of time, _when; _so that we might read the verse in...
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...
FOR I AM BECOME LIKE A BOTTLE IN THE SMOKE,.... Like a bottle made of the skins of beasts, as was usual in those times and countries: hence we read of old and new bottles, and of their rending, Judges...
For I am become like a bottle in the smoke; [yet] do I not forget thy statutes. Ver. 83. _For I am become like a bottle in the smoke_] Shrivelled, wrinkled, withered, dried up. My body by long suffer...
_CAPH._ Psalms 119:81. _My soul fainteth for thy salvation_ With longing desire, earnest expectation, and hope deferred. _Mine eyes fail_ With looking hither and thither, and to thee for help. _I am b...
_ Caph._ The Consolation of God's Word in the Midst of Great Troubles....
For I am become like a bottle in the smoke, a wine-skin shriveled up and blackened from being suspended high over the fireplace, the point of comparison being in the discarding of a useless article; Y...
81-88 The psalmist sought deliverance from his sins, his foes, and his fears. Hope deferred made him faint; his eyes failed by looking out for this expected salvation. But when the eyes fail, yet fai...
IN THE SMOKE; hung up in a smoking chimney. My natural moisture is dried and burnt up; I am withered, and deformed, and despised, and my case grows worse and worse every day....
Psalms 119:83 wineskin H4997 smoke H7008 forget H7911 (H8804) statutes H2706 like a bottle in the smoke - Psalms 22:15,...
Psalms 119:81. _My soul fainteth for thy salvation: but I hope in thy word._ The ship rocks, but the anchor holds; the singer is ready to faint, but he is not ready to despair. He knows where his res...
Psalms 119:81. _My soul fainteth for thy salvation: but I hope in thy word._ The psalmist was so full of longings, hungerings, thirstings, for God's salvation that he had come even to faintness throu...
In this Psalm we have, as it were, notes from David's pocket book. Psalms 119:73. _Thy hands have made me and fashioned me: give me understanding, that I may learn thy commandments._ This is a very...
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 fainteth for Thy salvation: but I hope in Thy Word._ PAINFUL SOUL MOODS AND THEIR ANTIDOTES I. Painful moods of soul. 1. Painful yearning (Psalms 119:81). (1) The general objects of this...
_For I am become like a bottle in the smoke._ THE WINESKIN IN THE SMOKE Ewald and Delitzsch read, “Although I am become as a wineskin hung in the smoke, yet do I not forget Thy statutes.” As a possib...
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
PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 119:83 LIKE A WINESKIN IN THE SMOKE. An unused wineskin, hanging in the rafters, becomes shriveled by the smoke. It is an image of one’s health “drying up.”...
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...
Job 30:30; Psalms 102:3; Psalms 102:4; Psalms 22:15; Psalms 119:16;...
Bottle — A leathern bottle. My natural moisture is dryed and burnt up....