Hawker's Poor man's commentary
Psalms 119:3
This is a precious verse. The new creature in Christ lives upon Christ; and as long as the soul thus lives upon him as his life and source, he walks in him, and is living to him and with him. 1 Peter 2:2.
This is a precious verse. The new creature in Christ lives upon Christ; and as long as the soul thus lives upon him as his life and source, he walks in him, and is living to him and with him. 1 Peter 2:2.
Verse Psalms 119:3. _THEY ALSO DO NO INIQUITY_] They avoid all idolatry, injustice, and wrong; and they walk in God's ways, not in those ways to which an evil heart might entice them, nor those in whi...
THEY ALSO DO NO INIQUITY - See the notes at 1 John 3:9. The meaning is, that they are righteous; their character is that they do that which is right. It cannot mean that all persons who are religious...
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...
INIQUITY. perversity. Hebrew. _'aval_. App-44....
THEY ALSO DO NO INIQUITY— Or, _That also do no iniquity; that walk in his ways. For they commit no iniquity who walk in his ways._ Green and Mudge....
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...
They also do no iniquity: they walk in his ways. THEY ALSO DO NO INIQUITY - willfully and habitually (). THEY WALK IN HIS WAYS - after the Spirit, not after the flesh ()....
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)....
אַ֭ף לֹֽא ־פָעֲל֣וּ עַוְלָ֑ה בִּ דְרָכָ֥יו הָ
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...
GOD'S WORD AN INNER POWER Psalms 119:1 This long and noble psalm is devoted to the praise of God's Word, which is mentioned in every verse but one, Psalms 119:122. Probably if we were to substitute _...
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...
They also do (b) no iniquity: they walk in his ways. (b) For they are ruled by God's Spirit and embrace no doctrine but his....
_Added. This is an usual form of denouncing vengeance, Ruth i. 17. The Babylonians are threatened with God's judgments, ver. 4. Some place these words in the mouth of God, answering the captives. How...
3._Surely they do not work iniquity _The statement, that they who follow God as their guide do not work iniquity, may seem to be a mere common-place, and universally admitted truth. The prophet has tw...
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...
THEY ALSO DO NO INIQUITY,.... Not that they are free from indwelling sin, nor from the acts of sin, nor that what they do are not sins; but they do not make a trade of sinning, it is not the course of...
They also do no iniquity: they walk in his ways. Ver. 3. _They also do no iniqaity_] _i.e._ No wilful wickedness; as do those workers of iniquity, whose whole trade it is, and whose whole life is not...
_ALEPH._ Psalms 119:1. _Blessed are the undefiled_ Hebrew, תמימי, _temimee_, the _perfect_, or _sincere_, as the word properly and most frequently signifies; namely, those whose hearts and lives agree...
THE CHRISTIAN'S GOLDEN ABC OF THE PRAISE, POWER, AND VALUE OF GOD'S WORD. This beautiful psalm, whose writer is not known, is divided into twenty-two sections of eight verses each. All the verses in t...
They also do no iniquity, no deliberate wickedness; THEY WALK IN HIS WAYS, arrange their entire life in agreement with the manner prescribed in His Word....
1-8 This psalm may be considered as the statement of a believer's experience. As far as our views, desires, and affections agree with what is here expressed, they come from the influences of the Holy...
DO NO INIQUITY; or, _are not workers of iniquity_, i.e. do not knowingly, and resolvedly, and industriously, and customarily continue in sinful courses. So this phrase is understood Job 31:3, Job 34:8...
Psalms 119:3 do H6466 (H8804) iniquity H5766 walk H1980 (H8804) ways H1870 1 John 3:9,...
It is not easy to see the special subjects that are spoken of by David in each of the short portions of eight verses, yet I do not doubt that if each portion were very carefully examined, we should se...
The first eight verses of this Psalm, in the Hebrew, begin with the letter A, and the second eight begin with the letter B. The whole Psalm is the good man's alphabet; the Holy Spirit condescended to...
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...
_Blessed are the undefiled in the way, who walk in the law of the Lord._ MORAL LAW I. There is a Divine moral law for the regulation of moral life. The Creator has given a law to every creature He h...
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 3:9; 1 John 5:18...
THE WONDERFUL WORD Psalms 119:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS When we hold the Bible in our hands we are holding a Book that is distinct from any and every other book the world has ever known. 1. IT IS DISTIN...