What does Psalms 119:48 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"My hands also will I lift up unto thy commandments, which I have loved; and I will meditate in thy statutes."
Verse Psalms 119:48. _MY HANDS ALSO WILL I LIFT UP_] I will present every victim and sacrifice which the law requires. I will make prayer and supplication before thee, lifting up holy hands without wr...
MY HANDS ALSO WILL I LIFT UP UNTO THY COMMANDMENTS ... - As an expression of delight or rejoicing, as people lift up their hands with their voice when they give expression to joy. It denotes a high st...
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...
MY HANDS, &C. Hebrew idiom. to swear by, as in Genesis 14:22.Exodus 6:8 (margin) Deuteronomy 32:40; Ezekiel 20:5; Ezekiel 20:6; Ezekiel 36:7. See note on Exodus 17:16....
MY HANDS ALSO WILL I LIFT UP— That is, says Mudge, "I will hold up my hands to receive God's law into them: I will be always reading it.'' Others think that the meaning is, "I will exemplify my love o...
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...
My hands also will I lift up unto thy commandments, which I have loved; and I will meditate in thy statutes. MY HANDS ALSO WILL I LIFT UP UNTO THY COMMANDMENTS, WHICH I HAVE LOVED. The lifting up o...
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...
MY HANDS. — See Psalms 28:2. The expression here is elliptical: “I will lift my hands in prayer for power to observe Thy commands.”...
וְ אֶשָּֽׂא ־כַפַּ֗י אֶֽל ־מִ֭צְוֹתֶיךָ אֲשֶׁ֥ר אָהָ֗בְתִּי וְ אָשִׂ֥יחָה בְ חֻקֶּֽיךָ׃...
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...
LOVE FOR GOD'S COMMANDS Psalms 119:33 Twice over the psalmist says, “thy commandments which I have loved,” and then proceeds to give the key to perfect love of them in the words, “I will _meditate_ i...
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...
V A U. The Reader will not need information that Jesus is Jehovah's salvation unto the ends of the earth; Isaiah 49:6. And the answers of Jesus to those that reproached him, are fully set forth in the...
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...
MY HANDS ALSO WILL I LIFT UP UNTO THY COMMANDMENTS, WHICH I HAVE LOVED,.... Showing by such a gesture his great esteem of them, and affection for them; stretching out his hands, and embracing them wit...
My hands also will I lift up unto thy commandments, which I have loved; and I will meditate in thy statutes. Ver. 48. _My hands also will I lift up, &c._] Removing all rubs, and pulling thy word to m...
_And I will walk at liberty_ Having then no such encumbrances upon me as I now have in these straits and difficulties which beset and burden me, I shall enjoy great freedom and comfort in thy ways, an...
_ Vau._ The Need of a Fearless Confession of the Divine Truth....
41-48 Lord, I have by faith thy mercies in view; let me by prayer prevail to obtain them. And when the salvation of the saints is completed, it will plainly appear that it was not in vain to trust in...
LIFT UP; to lay hold upon them, to receive and embrace thy precepts and promises by faith and love, and cheerfully and vigorously to put them in practice; for as the _hanging down of the hands_ is a g...
Psalms 119:48 hands H3709 up H5375 (H8799) commandments H4687 love H157 (H8804) meditate H7878 (H8799) statutes H2706 hands - Psalms 10:12; Ezekiel 44:12; Micah 5:9 unto thy - Matthew 7:21;...
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...
_So shall I keep Thy law continually for ever and ever._ A NOBLE RESOLUTION I. To be constantly obedient (verse 44). What is obedience? Not conformity to the letter of the law, but the incarnation o...
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 44:12; James 1:22; John 13:17; John 15:14; Micah 5:9; Matthew 7:21; Psalms 10:12; Psalms 1:1; Psalms 119:15...
Lift up — To receive and embrace thy precepts and promises....