The fear of the LORD [is] clean, enduring for ever: the judgments of the LORD [are] (g) true [and] righteous (h) altogether.
(g) So that all man's inventions and intentions are lies.
(h) Everyone without exception.
Verse Psalms 19:9. _THE FEAR OF THE LORD_] יראה _yirah_, from ירא _yara,_ to _fear_, to _venerate_; often put for the whole of Divine worship. The reverence we owe to the Supreme Being. IS _CLEAN_]...
THE FEAR OF THE LORD - The word rendered fear in this place - יראה _yir'âh_ - means properly fear, terror, Jonah 1:10; then, reverence, or holy fear, Psalms 2:11; Psalms 5:7; and he
Psalms 19 Christ in Creation and in Revelation __ 1 In creation (Psalms 19:1) 2. In revelation (Psalms 19:7) Psalms 19:1
XIX. A. PSALMS 19:1. THE REVELATION OF GOD IN NATURE. A fragment of a longer poem. Day and night are pictured as living beings who hand on the tradition of God's creative act from age to age (see Job...
FEAR. reverence. CLEAN. cleansing (especially Levitically). Compare Leviticus 16:30; Numbers 8:7; Numbers 8:21.Ezekiel 36:33, &c.
Yet more wonderful than this declaration of God's glory, more beneficent than the sun's life-giving light and heat, is Jehovah's revelation of His will, which quickens and educates man's moral nature....
_The fear of the Lord_ Another synonym for the -law," inasmuch as its aim and object is to implant the fear of God in men's hearts. (Deuteronomy 4:10). It is _clean_or _pure_(Psalms 12:6), in contrast...
DISCOURSE: 520 EXCELLENCY OF GOD’S WORD Psalms 19:7. The law of the Lord is perfect, converting the soul; the testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple: the statutes of the Lord are right,...
PSALMS 19 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE Greater than the Glory of God in the Heavens is the Grace of Jehovah in the Law. ANALYSIS A Composite Psalm: in which, by the mere force of Juxtaposition, the Grace of J...
_THE FEAR OF THE LORD IS CLEAN, ENDURING FOR EVER: THE JUDGMENTS OF THE LORD ARE TRUE AND RIGHTEOUS ALTOGETHER._ The fear of the Lord is clean, enduring for ever. "The fear of the Lord" is shown by t...
This Ps. falls into two well-marked divisions. Psalms 19:1 describe the glory of God (_El_) as seen in the heavenly bodies, especially the sun, and are thus parallel to Psalms 8; Psalms 19:7 deal with...
THE FEAR OF THE LORD] another expression for the Law, which produces this fear in the heart. CLEAN] opposed to impurity of life. ENDURING FOR EVER] as the expression of God's eternal righteousness....
Psalms 1:41 _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ Words in boxes are from the Bible. The notes explain some of the words with a *star by them. Tap the * before a word to show an explanation. The translated Bible tex...
THE FEAR OF THE LORD. — Here plainly not a moral quality of the individual, but, as in Proverbs 15:33 (comp. Deuteronomy 17:19), religion, the service demanded by the Law, which, being _“_pure and und...
_[Psalms 19:10]_ יִרְאַ֤ת יְהוָ֨ה ׀ טְהֹורָה֮ עֹומֶ֪דֶת לָ֫...
Psalms 19:1 Is this originally one psalm or bits of two, pieced together to suggest a comparison between the two sources of knowledge of God, which the authors did not dream of? The affirmative is str...
THE WORKS AND THE WORD OF GOD Psalms 19:1 This is the “Psalm of the Two Books”-Nature and Scripture. If Psalms 8:1 were written at night, Psalms 19:1 was surely written by day. In...
The burden of this psalm is the twofold revelation of Jehovah. He is revealed in Nature and in law. Yet in Nature Jehovah is revealed as God and not by those especial qualities suggested by the great...
Bound. Their chariot wheels are entangled, Exodus xiv. 25. (Calmet) --- Those who trust in the power of man, fall into captivity. (Worthington) --- Their feet are ensnared. (Berthier) --- The king. He...
Here the sacred writer makes a beautiful transition from the works of nature to contemplate the works of grace. Having celebrated the praises of Jehovah in his outward courts, he now enters the inner...
Psalms 19 _ Proper Psalm for Christmas Day_ (_Morning_). PSALMS 19-21 = _ Day 4_ (_Morning_)....
9._The fear of Jehovah is clean. _By the _fear of God _we are here to understand the way in which God is to be served; and therefore it is taken in an active sense for the doctrine which prescribes to...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS PSALMS 18 AND 19. Psalms 18 presents to us the connection of Christ, and particularly of His (not atoning suffering that is found in Psalms 22, but His) entering into t...
THE FEAR OF THE LORD [IS] CLEAN,.... Still the word of God is intended, which teaches men to fear the Lord; gives a full account of the worship of God, which is often meant by the fear of God; it inst...
The fear of the LORD [is] clean, enduring for ever: the judgments of the LORD [are] true [and] righteous altogether. Ver. 9. _The fear of the Lord is clean_] That is, the doctrine which teacheth the...
_The fear of the Lord_ True religion and godliness, prescribed in the word, reigning in the heart and practised in the life; or rather, that word or law itself is intended, and called _the fear of the...
The fear of the Lord is clean, enduring forever; the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether. The childlike fear and reverence of God is purity, holiness, truth, because it flows out o...
A PROPHECY OF THE GOSPEL. Luther says of this psalm that it is a prophecy of the Gospel as it was intended to go forth into all the world, as wide as the heavens extend, and to be proclaimed and taug...
TRUE: _ Heb._ truth...
7-10 The Holy Scripture is of much greater benefit to us than day or night, than the air we breathe, or the light of the sun. To recover man out of his fallen state, there is need of the word of God....
THE FEAR OF THE LORD; by which he understands not the grace of God's fear, as this phrase is commonly taken; nor the whole worship of God, as it is taken PSALMS 34:9,11 MT 15:9; but the law and word o...
Psalms 19:9 fear H3374 LORD H3068 clean H2889 enduring H5975 (H8802) forever H5703 judgments H4941 LORD H3068 true...
GOD SPEAKS THROUGH HIS WORD AND COVENANT (PSALMS 19:7). Psalms 19:7 ‘ The instruction (law) of YHWH is perfect, restoring the soul, The testimony of YHWH is sure, making wise the simple. For the In...
FEAR OF THE LORD The "fear of the Lord," a phrase of the Old Testament piety, meaning reverential trust, with hatred of evil....
Psalms 19:7 There are here six different names by which the law of Jehovah is called, and six different statements regarding it, corresponding to these different names. I. "The law of the Lord is pe...
This Psalm teaches us the excellence of the two revelations which God has made to man. The first is the revelation which he has made in nature, and the second is that which he has made in his inspired...
This Psalm has the same subject as Psalms 119:1. Both of them are full of praise of God's Word. God has written two books for us to read,-the volume of the Creation and the volume of the Sacred Script...
CONTENTS: God's revelation of Himself in the book of nature, book of the law and the book of human life. CHARACTERS: God, David. CONCLUSION: God makes Himself known through three great books, all of...
Psalms 19:4. _Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their words to_ _the end of the world._ The LXX, φθογγος, _phthoggos._ Vulgate, _sonus,_ their _sound;_ the music of their voice. The el...
_The fear of the Lord is clean, enduring forever._ THE WORD OF GOD ENDURING FOREVER We are to consider the abiding and habitual effect of the Word of God upon believing hearts. And this effect is ex...
PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 19:1. In singing this psalm, God’s people celebrate his law as his supreme revelation of himself. The psalm recounts the way the creation speaks of its Maker (vv....
PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 19:9 THE FEAR OF THE LORD refers to the precepts of the covenant, which show how to properly revere God (compare Psalms 34:11
INTRODUCTION “This psalm instructs its readers in the glory and goodness of God; first, by directing their contemplation to the structure of the heavens, to the course of the sun, and to the kindly in...
EXPOSITION THE nineteenth psalm is one of meditative praise. The psalmist, looking abroad over the whole world, finds two main subjects for his eulogy—first, the glorious fabric of the material creati...
Chapter 19 is one of the beautiful favorite psalms where David does speak about how God does reveal Himself to man in nature. The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament showeth his handi...
1 Kings 18:12; 1 Kings 18:3; 1 Kings 18:4; 1 Samuel 12:24; Acts 10:22
The fear — The law and word of God, because it is both the object and the rule, and the cause of holy fear. Clean — Sincere, not adulterated with any mixture. Constant and unchangeable, the same for s...