Remove from me reproach and contempt, that of the haughty and arrogant scoffers, who delight in heaping scorn upon the Christians for their trust in the Word of God; for I have kept Thy testimonies, observing the revelation of God and His essence for the truth and against sin, and following the guiding principles thus set forth.
Verse Psalms 119:22. _REMOVE FROM ME REPROACH AND CONTEMPT_] Of these the captives in Babylon had a more than ordinary load....
REMOVE FROM ME REPROACH AND CONTEMPT - Show me thy favor, and let me not suffer in the estimation of mankind on account of my religion. Let me not be exposed to malicious charges; to accusations of hy...
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...
REPROACH AND CONTEMPT. Compare Psalms 123:3; Psalms 123:4, confirming Hezekiah's suggested authorship....
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...
Remove from me reproach and contempt; for I have kept thy testimonies. REMOVE FROM ME REPROACH AND CONTEMPT - Hebrew, gal (H1540); 'roll away from me reproach'-namely, such as Israel bare from the...
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)....
REMOVE. — Some render “roll,” with allusion to Joshua 5:9. But it is more probably the same word as that rendered “open_”_ in Psalms 119:18 (see Note) which may have for object the covering taken off...
גַּ֣ל מֵֽ֭ עָלַי חֶרְפָּ֣ה וָ ב֑וּז כִּ֖י
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...
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...
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...
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...
22._Remove from me reproach _This verse may admit of two senses: Let the children of God walk as circumspectly as it is possible for them to do, they will not escape being liable to many slanders, and...
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...
REMOVE FROM ME REPROACH AND CONTEMPT,.... Or, "roll [it] from me" u. It lay as a load, as a heavy burden upon him, which pressed him sore; and he therefore desired ease from it, being probably in a lo...
Remove from me reproach and contempt; for I have kept thy testimonies. Ver. 22. _Remove from me reproach and contempt_] Cast upon me by those proud haughty scorners, Psalms 119:21, and that for nothi...
_Remove from me reproach_ Which I suffer, and that unjustly, for thy sake; _for I have kept thy testimonies_ And therefore I am innocent of those things for which they censure and reproach me: or, and...
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...
REPROACH, which I suffer unjustly and for thy sake, as he elsewhere complains. I HAVE KEPT THY TESTIMONIES, and therefore I am innocent from those crimes for which they censure and reproach me. Or, an...
Psalms 119:22 Remove H1556 (H8798) reproach H2781 contempt H937 kept H5341 (H8804) testimonies H5713 Remove -...
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...
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...
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...
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...
_Remove from me reproach and contempt; for I have kept Thy testimonies._ SOCIAL CONTEMPT AND CONSCIOUS RECTITUDE I. Social contempt (verse 22). 1. Is a thing to be deprecated. 2. Is a thing not al...
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
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;...
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...
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 Peter 2:20; 1 Peter 3:16; 1 Peter 3:17; 1 Peter 4:14; 1 Samuel 25:1
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...