What does Psalms 19:8 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"The statutes of the LORD are right, rejoicing the heart: the commandment of the LORD is pure, enlightening the eyes."
Verse Psalms 19:8. _THE STATUTES OF THE LORD_] פקודים _pikkudim_, from פקד _pakad_, he visited, _cared, took notice of, appointed to a charge_. The _appointments_, or _charge delivered_ by God to man...
THE STATUTES OF THE LORD - The word here rendered statutes properly means mandates, precepts - rules given to anyone to guide him, Psalms 103:18; Psalms 111:7. It refers to the laws of God considered...
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 Himse...
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...
STATUTES. precepts. Heb _pikkudim._ Found only in the Psalms, and in the Plural RIGHT. righteous: i.e. equitable and just. ENLIGHTENING. giving light, as the sun (Genesis 1:15; Genesis 1:17; Genesis...
Yet more wonderful than this declaration of God's glory, more beneficent than the sun's life-giving light and heat, is Jehovah's revelation of His will, which quickens and educates man's moral nature....
DISCOURSE: 520 EXCELLENCY OF GOD’S WORD Psalms 19:7. _The law of the Lord is perfect, converting the soul; the testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple: the statutes of the Lord are righ...
PSALMS 19 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE Greater than the Glory of God in the Heavens is the Grace of Jehovah in the Law. ANALYSIS A Composite Psalm: in which, by the mere force of Juxtaposition, the Grace of J...
_THE STATUTES OF THE LORD ARE RIGHT, REJOICING THE HEART: THE COMMANDMENT OF THE LORD IS PURE, ENLIGHTENING THE EYES._ The statutes of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart: the commandment of the...
This Ps. falls into two well-marked divisions. Psalms 19:1 describe the glory of God (_El_) as seen in the heavenly bodies, especially the sun, and are thus parallel to Psalms 8; Psalms 19:7 deal with...
Psalms 1:41 _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ Words in boxes are from the Bible. The notes explain some of the words with a *star by them. Tap the * before a word to show an explanation. The translated Bible tex...
RIGHT. — Here in its original sense of “straight,” or direct. A fine moral insight suggested this touch. The road of duty, when plain and unmistakable, inspires a sense of gladness, even if it be diff...
_[Psalms 19:9]_ פִּקּ֘וּדֵ֤י יְהוָ֣ה יְ֭שָׁרִים מְשַׂמְּחֵי ־לֵ֑ב מִצְוַ֥ת יְהוָ֥ה בָּ֝רָ֗ה מְאִירַ֥ת עֵינָֽיִם׃...
Psalms 19:1 Is this originally one psalm or bits of two, pieced together to suggest a comparison between the two sources of knowledge of God, which the authors did not dream of? The affirmative is str...
THE WORKS AND THE WORD OF GOD Psalms 19:1 This is the “Psalm of the Two Books”-Nature and Scripture. If Psalms 8:1 were written at night, Psalms 19:1 was surely written by day. In Psalms 19:1, God i...
The burden of this psalm is the twofold revelation of Jehovah. He is revealed in Nature and in law. Yet in Nature Jehovah is revealed as God and not by those especial qualities suggested by the great...
_Call upon. Septuagint Roman, Syriac, &c., read, "we shall be exalted," Greek: megalunthesometha, (Calmet) as [in] ver. 6. Some call upon or trust in chariots, &c. (Haydock) --- Hebrew, "remember," wh...
Here the sacred writer makes a beautiful transition from the works of nature to contemplate the works of grace. Having celebrated the praises of Jehovah in his outward courts, he now enters the inner...
Psalms 19 _ Proper Psalm for Christmas Day_ (_Morning_). PSALMS 19-21 = _ Day 4_ (_Morning_)....
8._The statutes of Jehovah are right. _The Psalmist at first view may seem to utter a mere common-place sentiment when he calls the statutes of the Lord _right. _If we, however, more attentively consi...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS PSALMS 18 AND 19. Psalms 18 presents to us the connection of Christ, and particularly of His (not atoning suffering that is found in Psalms 22, but His) entering into t...
THE STATUTES OF THE LORD [ARE] RIGHT,.... The word of God may be called "statutes", or "visitations" d because that God will visit, in a way of resentment, such persons as despise its authority, do no...
The statutes of the LORD [are] right, rejoicing the heart: the commandment of the LORD [is] pure, enlightening the eyes. Ver. 8. _The statutes of the Lord are right_] As being the issue of the most r...
_The statutes of the Lord_ Another word signifying the same thing with law and testimonies, _are right_ Both in themselves, and in their effect, as guiding men in the ready way to eternal happiness. _...
A PROPHECY OF THE GOSPEL. Luther says of this psalm that it is a prophecy of the Gospel as it was intended to go forth into all the world, as wide as the heavens extend, and to be proclaimed and taug...
7-10 The Holy Scripture is of much greater benefit to us than day or night, than the air we breathe, or the light of the sun. To recover man out of his fallen state, there is need of the word of God....
_ Statutes_, another word signifying the same thing with law and testimonies, are right; both in themselves, as being free from crookedness or error; and in their effect, as guiding and directing men...
Psalms 19:8 statutes H6490 LORD H3068 right H3477 rejoicing H8055 (H8764) heart H3820 commandment H4687 LORD H3068 pure H1249 enlightening H215 (H8688) eyes H5869 statutes - Psalms 105:45, Psalms 119...
GOD SPEAKS THROUGH HIS WORD AND COVENANT (PSALMS 19:7). Psalms 19:7 ‘ The instruction (law) of YHWH is perfect, restoring the soul, The testimony of YHWH is sure, making wise the simple. For the In...
Psalms 19:7 There are here six different names by which the law of Jehovah is called, and six different statements regarding it, corresponding to these different names. I. "The law of the Lord is pe...
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 Script...
CONTENTS: God's revelation of Himself in the book of nature, book of the law and the book of human life. CHARACTERS: God, David. CONCLUSION: God makes Himself known through three great books, all of...
Psalms 19:4. _Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their words to_ _the end of the world._ The LXX, φθογγος, _phthoggos._ Vulgate, _sonus,_ their _sound;_ the music of their voice. The el...
_The statutes of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart._ JOY IN GOD’S STATUTES Not content with celebrating the eternal fitness and rectitude of the Divine statutes, the Psalmist recommends them by...
PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 19:1. In singing this psalm, God’s people celebrate his law as his supreme revelation of himself. The psalm recounts the way the creation speaks of its Maker (vv. Psalms 19:...
INTRODUCTION “This psalm instructs its readers in the glory and goodness of God; first, by directing their contemplation to the structure of the heavens, to the course of the sun, and to the kindly i...
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 creat...
Chapter 19 is one of the beautiful favorite psalms where David does speak about how God does reveal Himself to man in nature. The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament showeth his handi...
Deuteronomy 12:11; Deuteronomy 12:12; Deuteronomy 16:11; Deuteronomy 16:14; Deuteronomy 4:5; Deuteronomy 4:6; Exodus 18:16; Ezekiel 36:27; Galatians 2:19;...
Right — Both in themselves, and in their effect, as guiding men in the ready way to eternal happiness. Rejoicing — By the discoveries of God's love to sinful men, in offers and promises of mercy. Comm...