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Psalms 119:21

Thou hast rebuked the proud that are cursed, which do err from thy commandments.

Thou hast rebuked the proud (that are) cursed, which do err from thy commandments - a sample of the "judgments" longed for (). God rebuked, by the acts of vengeance, the "proud" Pharaoh, who 'exalted himself against God's people' (): God then showed that "in the thing wherein they dealt proudly He was above them" (). Lord rebuke them in act again, and vindicate thy people! Those are under the curse who "err from God's commandments" (; ).

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Psalms 119:21. _THOU HAST REBUKED THE PROUD_] This was done often in the case of David; and was true also in reference to the Babylonians, who held the Israelites in subjection, and whose kings...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    THOU HAST REBUKED THE PROUD - Compare Psalms 9:5. The meaning is, that God had done this not by word but by deed. The proud were everywhere rebuked by God, alike in his law, and in his providence. The...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    ERR. go far astray (through wine or passion). Same word as "wander" (Psalms 119:10), and "err" (Psalms 119:118). Hebrew. _shagah_ App-44....

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    THOU HAST REBUKED THE PROUD, &C.— _Thou rebukest the proud; cursed are they that stray from thy commandments._ Houb. and Mudge. The _proud_ in this psalm mean the atheistical contemptuous disregarders...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    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...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    119:21 rebuked (e-3) Or 'Thou rebukest.'...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    THE PROUD] perhaps Jews who had been influenced by foreign culture....

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    Psalms 107:150 _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ THE WORD OF GOD PSALMS 119 JESUS SAID, "IF YOU LOVE ME YOU WILL OBEY ME" (JOHN 14:15)....

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    LXX. and Vulg. divide the verse: “Thou hast rebuked the proud; cursed are they,” &c. This is preferable....

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    גָּ֭עַרְתָּ זֵדִ֣ים אֲרוּרִ֑ים הַ֝ שֹּׁגִים מִ...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    A PRAYER FOR UNDERSTANDING Psalms 119:17 These verses are full of yearning and unsatisfied desire. The soul breaks for longing, cleaves to the dust, and melts for heaviness. We are reminded of the co...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    Thou (c) hast rebuked the proud [that are] cursed, which do err from thy commandments. (c) In all ages you have plagued all such who maliciously and contemptuously depart from your truth....

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    GIMEL. Here are again many very gracious and fervent breathings after divine favor, which need nothing explanatory by way of comment. Some of them very highly correspond with what might be supposed to...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    21._Thou hast destroyed the proud. _Others render it:, _Thou hast rebuked the proud; _a translation of which the Hebrew term גער _, gaar, _admits when the letter ב _, beth, _is joined with it in const...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    THOU HAST REBUKED THE PROUD,.... Which some understand of the fallen angels, who, in proud wrath, left their habitations, because they would not be subject to the Son of God in human nature; wherefore...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Thou hast rebuked the proud [that are] cursed, which do err from thy commandments. Ver. 21. _Thou hast rebuked the proud, &c._] Thou chidest them, threatenest them, plaguest them, and so settest it o...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Thou hast rebuked_ Or, _dost rebuke_, that is, reprove and punish, _the proud_ Obstinate and presumptuous sinners, who sin with a high hand; _that are cursed_ That are under the wrath and curse of Go...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Thou hast rebuked the proud that are cursed, which do err from Thy commandments, that is, the arrogant, who mocked the believer, have encountered the Lord's warning threat, since His curse will surely...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    _ Gimel._ Prayer For Enlightenment Unto A Godly Life....

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    17-24 If God deals in strict justice with us, we all perish. We ought to spend our lives in his service; we shall find true life in keeping his word. Those that would see the wondrous things of God's...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    HAST REBUKED, or _dost rebuke_, i.e. severely punish and destroy. And therefore I justly long for thy judgments, as for the love which I have to them, so for fear of those terrible judgments which tho...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Psalms 119:21 rebuke H1605 (H8804) cursed H779 (H8803) stray H7686 (H8802) commandments H4687 rebuked -...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    Psalms 119:21. _Thou hast rebuked the proud that are cursed, which do err from thy commandments._ Wherever there is pride in the heart, there is sure to be error in the life. A proud man is wrong, to...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    Psalms 119:17. _Deal bountifully with thy servant, that I may live, and keep thy word._ O Lord, I am thy servant; yet, I pray thee, do not pay me wages according to my deserts, but according to the g...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    Psalms 119:9. _Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way? by taking heed thereto according to thy word._ «Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way?» A vital and solemn question. His way is f...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _My soul breaketh for the longing that it hath unto Thy judgments at all times._ THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG I. A hungering for the right. This hunger indicates: 1. The existence of rectitude. For ever...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    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 psa

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 119:21 INSOLENT, ACCURSED ONES. In the psalm, these are Israelites who reject the covenant, who wander from God’s commandments. See vv. Psalms 119:51

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    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;...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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 proper...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Peter 5:5; Daniel 4:37; Daniel 5:22; Deuteronomy 27:15;...

  • Wells of Living Water Commentary

    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 DISTIN...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    The proud — Obstinate and presumptuous sinners, who sin with an high hand. Err — Or, wander, knowingly or wilfully....

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