Psalms 119:4
What meaning of the psalms 119:4 in the Bible?
What does Psalms 119:4 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"Thou hast commanded us to keep thy precepts diligently."
What does Psalms 119:4 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"Thou hast commanded us to keep thy precepts diligently."
Verse Psalms 119:4. _THY PRECEPTS DILIGENTLY._] מאד _meod_, "superlatively, to the uttermost." God has never given a commandment, the observance of which he knew to be _impossible_. And to whatsoever...
THOU HAST COMMANDED - All this is here traced to the command of God; to the fact that he has required it. It is not mere human prudence; it is not mere morality; it is not because it will be for our i...
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...
PRECEPTS. The third in order of the ten words. See App-73....
DISCOURSE: 695 PRACTICAL RELIGION ENFORCED Psalms 119:4. _Thou hast commanded us to keep thy precepts diligently: O that my ways were directed to keep thy statutes! Then shall I not he ashamed, when...
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...
Thou hast commanded us to keep thy precepts diligently. THOU HAST COMMANDED US TO KEEP THY PRECEPTS DILIGENTLY - as a most precious deposit committed to us. Translate wholly: see note, ....
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...
אַ֭תָּה צִוִּ֥יתָה פִקֻּדֶ֗יךָ לִ שְׁמֹ֥ר מְאֹֽד׃...
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...
_Waste. Hebrew, "of juniper" or thorn trees, Job xxx. 4. The former is said to retain its heat a long time, and the latter is easily inflamed, Psalm cxvii. 12. Such fiery weapons have been often used,...
If we accept the word precepts in the first and most obvious sense of it, the diligent attention to the commandments of God will be, living to Christ. For when the Jews demanded of our Lord what they...
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...
THOU HAST COMMANDED [US] TO KEEP THY PRECEPTS DILIGENTLY. Here, and in the following verses, the psalmist expresses his great regard to the precepts, commandments, statutes, and judgments of God; and...
Thou hast commanded [us] to keep thy precepts diligently. Ver. 4. _Thou hast commanded us, &c._] These are _verba vivenda, non legenda,_ words to be lived, and not read only, as one well saith of thi...
_Thou hast commanded us_, &c. Nor is it strange that thy people do so exactly and diligently observe thy precepts, because they are commanded so to do by thee, their sovereign Lord. _O that my ways we...
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...
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...
Nor is it strange that thy people do so exactly and diligently observe and practise thy precepts, because they are commanded so to do by thee their sovereign Lord....
Psalms 119:4 commanded H6680 (H8765) keep H8104 (H8800) precepts H6490 diligently H3966 Deuteronomy 4:1, Deuteronomy 4:9, Deuteronomy 5:29-33, Deuteronomy 6:17, Deuteronomy 11:13,...
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 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...
1 John 5:3; Deuteronomy 11:13; Deuteronomy 11:22; Deuteronomy 12:32; Deuteronomy 28:1; Deuteronomy 30:16; Deuteronomy 4:1; Deuteronomy 4:9; Deuteronomy 5:29;...
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 DISTI...