Psalms 119:158
What meaning of the psalms 119:158 in the Bible?
What does Psalms 119:158 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"I beheld the transgressors, and was grieved; because they kept not thy word."
What does Psalms 119:158 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"I beheld the transgressors, and was grieved; because they kept not thy word."
Verse 158. _I BEHELD THE TRANSGRESSORS, AND WAS GRIEVED_] Literally, _I was affected with anguish_....
I BEHELD THE TRANSGRESSORS - Those who wronged me; those who violated the law of God. AND WAS GRIEVED - Or, “sickened.” The word used here means commonly to loathe, to nauseate, to sicken. Ezekiel 16...
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...
TRANSGRESSORS. Hebrew. _bagad_. traitors, or treacherous men. WAS GRIEVED. loathed myself: i.e. seeing the same tendencies in myself. Compare Job 42:6....
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...
I beheld the transgressors, and was grieved; because they kept not thy word. I BEHELD THE TRANSGRESSORS - literally, the treacherous transgressors (note, ); unfaithful to their covenanted duty to...
119:158 grieved; (k-9) Or 'and I loathed [them].' see Psalms 139:21 ....
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). THE STORY OF PSALMS 119 Solomon was king of Israel nearly 1000 years Be...
RESH. (158) TRANSGRESSORS. — Better, _the faithless_ (or, _traitors_). WAS GRIEVED. — The Hebrew is a far stronger word, and the sense is intensified by the rare conjugation: _was filled with loathi...
רָאִ֣יתִי בֹ֭גְדִים וָֽ אֶתְקֹוטָ֑טָה אֲשֶׁ֥ר אִ֝מְרָתְךָ֗ לֹ֣א שָׁמָֽרוּ׃...
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 JOY OF COMMUNION WITH GOD Psalms 119:145 There is great eagerness in the psalmist's prayerfulness. He calls with his whole heart; he awakes before the dawn and continues long after the fall of ni...
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...
I beheld the transgressors, and was (c) grieved; because they kept not thy word. (c) My zeal consumed me when I saw their malice and contempt for your glory....
RESH. The same cries of soul are continued through this portion as in the former; and we may, without any forced construction of the words, consider what is here said as peculiarly applicable to the m...
158._I saw the perfidious and child them. _In this verse the Psalmist proceeds yet farther, declaring that he was inflamed with a holy zeal when he saw the law of God despised by the wicked. Expositor...
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...
I BEHELD THE TRANSGRESSORS, AND WAS GRIEVED,.... Transgressors of the law of God, profane sinners; such as among whom he dwelt in Mesech and Kedar; it grieved him when he beheld their wicked life and...
I beheld the transgressors, and was grieved; because they kept not thy word. Ver. 158. _I beheld the transgressors, and was grieved_] Or, I abhorred them, or, I contended with them; not so much becau...
_Many are my persecutors_ David, being a public person, had many enemies. In this he was a type both of Christ and of his church. The enemies, the persecutors of both, are many, implacable and unweari...
_ Resh._ The Increasing Confidence of the Believer....
89-96 The settling of God's word in heaven, is opposed to the changes and revolutions of the earth. And the engagements of God's covenant are established more firmly than the earth itself. All the cr...
I observed and considered their ungodly courses....
Psalms 119:158 see H7200 (H8804) treacherous H898 (H8802) disgusted H6962 (H8709) keep H8104 (H8804) word H565 Psalms 119:53, Psalms 119:136; Ezekiel 9:4; Mark 3:5...
Psalms 119:158 Consider what there is in the breaking of God's law to justify such manifestation of grief as you read of in the writings of David. I. Look, first, at the dishonour done to God by the...
Psalms 119:145. _I cried with my whole heart; hear me. O LORD: I will keep thy statutes._ It is sweet to look back upon our prayers, if those prayers were uttered with our whole heart, for it is no s...
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...
_Many are my persecutors and mine enemies._ THE TRIALS AND TRAITS OF PIETY I. The trials of piety. They are twofold--objective and subjective. 1. Objective. “Many are my persecutors and enemies.” “...
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 psalms as 1 and 112. It is the longes...
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; Psalms 119:141; Psalms...
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 prope...
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...
Ezekiel 9:4; Mark 3:5; Psalms 119:136; Psalms 119:53...