Psalms 19:11

_MOREOVER BY THEM IS THY SERVANT WARNED: AND IN KEEPING OF THEM THERE IS GREAT REWARD._ Warned - literally, enlightened х_ NIZHAAR_ (H2094)]; i:e., illuminated in the right way, in cases of doubt, danger, ignorance, or sin. IN KEEPING OF THEM - in the very act of keeping them there is a present great reward-not merely one in prospect: God Himself is even now the believer's "exceeding great reward" (Genesis 15:1). Love to God, not a hireling spirit, is the believer's animating principle. The promise of reward from God refers to such a kind of reward as no self-righteous hireling would desire, and is at the same time such as cheers the believer in his efforts, by the Spirits to please God and to keep His law. REWARD - х_ `EEQEB_ (H6118)] - literally, th

11._Moreover, by them is thy servant made circumspect. _These words may be extended generally to all the people of God; but they are properly to be understood of David himself, and by them he testifies that he knew well, from his own experience, all that he had stated in the preceding verses respecting the law. No man will ever speak truly and in good earnest of heavenly truth, but he who has it deeply fixed in his own heart. David therefore acknowledges, that whatever prudence he had for regulating and framing his life aright, he was indebted for it to the law of God. Although, however, it is properly of himself that he speaks, yet by his own example he sets forth a general rule, namely, that if persons wish to have a proper method for governing the life well, the law of God alone is perfectly sufficient for this purpose; but that, on the contrary, as soon as persons depart from it, the...

11-14 God's word warns the wicked not to go on in his wicked way, and warns the righteous not to turn from his good way. There is a reward, not only after keeping, but in keeping God's commandments. Religion makes our comforts sweet, and our crosses easy, life truly valuable, and death itself truly desirable. David not only desired to be pardoned and cleansed from the sins he had discovered and confessed, but from those he had forgotten or overlooked. All discoveries of sin made to us by the law, should drive us to the throne of grace, there to pray. His dependence was the same with that of every Christian who says, Surely in the Lord Jesus have I righteousness and strength. No prayer can be acceptable before God which is not offered in the strength of our Redeemer or Divine Kinsman, through Him who took our nature upon him, that he might redeem us unto God, and restore the long-lost in...

Verse Psalms 19:11. _BY THEM IS THY SERVANT WARNED_] נזהר _nizhar_, from זהר _zahar_, to be _clear, pellucid_. By these laws, testimonies, c., thy servant is _fully instructed he sees all clearly_; and he _discerns_ that in _keeping of them there is great reward_: every man is wise, holy, and happy, who observes them. All Christian experience confirms this truth. Reader, what says _thine_?...

MOREOVER BY THEM IS THY SERVANT WARNED - The word used here - זהר _zâhar_ - means, properly, to be bright, to shine; then, to cause to shine, to make light; and then, to admonish, to instruct, to warn. The essential idea here is, to throw light on a subject, so as to show it clearly; that is, to make the duty plain, and the consequences plain. Compare Leviticus 15:31; Ezekiel 3:18; Ezekiel 33:7. The word is rendered admonished in Ecclesiastes 4:13; Ecclesiastes 12:12

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 creation (Psalms 19:1); and, secondly, the Divine Law which God has given to man (Psalms 19:7). Having thus poured out his heart in praise and thanksgiving to God, he turns his eye inward upon himself, and finds many shortcomings (Psalms 19:12). The thought of these leads him to prayer, and so the hymn concludes with a few short petitions (Psalms 19:12). Rhythmically, the divisions correspond to the changes

MOREOVER, BY THEM IS THY SERVANT WARNED,.... By whom the psalmist means himself, who was the servant of the Lord, not only in common with other saints, but as he was a king and prophet, and as such he received advantage from the word of God; all his instructions as a prophet, and all his rules of government as a king; and the whole of that wisdom, prudence, and knowledge, with which the conducted in both offices, were from the Lord by his word: and it may be applied to any servant of the Lord, and especially in an ecclesiastical office, as an apostle of Christ, and minister of the word; who serve God in the Gospel of his Son, and, by means of the Scriptures, are furnished for every good work; and also to believers in Christ in common; who, of whatsoever rank and quality, in whatsoever state and condition of life, whether high or low, rich or poor, bond or free, are Christ's servants; and...

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 Scriptures,-and these two are in complete harmony. Happy are they who can read both these books, and see the same vein of teaching running through every page. Psalms 19:1. _The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork._ The heavens are always declaring God's glory; if we gaze up to them by day or by night, we always read in them the power, the wisdom, the goodness, the greatness, the immutability of God. Psalms 19:2. Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night

Psalms 19 Christ in Creation and in Revelation __ 1 In creation (Psalms 19:1) 2. In revelation (Psalms 19:7) Psalms 19:1. This Psalm also bears witness to Christ as Creator and as revealing Himself through the Word. The two great books, Creation and Revelation, bear witness to Him. The Heavens which declare the glory of God were created by Him (Colossians 1:16; John 1:3). And there is a testimony to Him in creation which is continuous. “Day unto day

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 3:3 *). Psalms 19:3 is a prosaic gloss to guard against any idea that the heavenly bodies speak in the literal sense. Psalms 19:4. for line read voice. IN THEM: _i.e._ in the heavens, but the text is probably corrupt. XIX. B. PSALMS 19:7. AN INDEPENDENT POEM IN PRAISE OF THE LAW. In...