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Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary

Psalms 119:86

Are faithful; they are in themselves most just and true, and they require justice and faithfulness from men, promising many blessings to those that perform it, and severely forbid all fraud and falseness, threatening grievous punishments to those that use it; and such promises and threatenings are true, and shall certainly be executed.

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See also Psalms 119:86 in other biblical comments:

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    ALL THY COMMANDMENTS ARE FAITHFUL - Margin, “faithfulness.” The idea in the Hebrew is that they are worthy to be relied on. They are founded in truth, and they should secure our confidence. THEY PERSE...

  • 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

    FAITHFUL. faithfulness. WRONGFULLY. See note on "perversely", Psalms 119:78....

  • 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...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    All thy commandments are faithful: they persecute me wrongfully; help thou me. ALL THY COMMANDMENTS ARE FAITHFUL - literally, faithfulness (); have attached to them promises to the obedient which...

  • 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...

  • 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)....

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    כָּל ־מִצְוֹתֶ֥יךָ אֱמוּנָ֑ה שֶׁ֖קֶר רְדָפ֣וּנִי עָזְרֵֽנִי׃...

  • 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

    THE WORD THAT STANDS FAST Psalms 119:81 They persecute wrongfully; they dig pits; they have almost consumed; they have waited to destroy; but thy Word abides steadfast. The driven soul flees to the...

  • 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

    All thy commandments [are] faithful: they persecute me wrongfully; (e) help thou me. (e) He assures himself that God will deliver his and destroy such as unjustly persecute them....

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    CAPH. The opening of this portion is also very beautiful, in reference to the Lord Jesus, who waited with longing expectation for the time of his being manifested unto Israel. Hence we find him, in th...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    86._All thy commandments are truth. _In this verse he again confirms the statement, That, in whatever ways he was afflicted, his mind had not been distracted by various devices, because, trusting in t...

  • 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

    ALL THY COMMANDMENTS [ARE] FAITHFUL,.... Or, "faithfulness" x they are made by a faithful God, who is holy, just, and true; they command faithfulness, sincerity, and uprightness; and require men to lo...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    All thy commandments [are] faithful: they persecute me wrongfully; help thou me. Ver. 86. _All thy commandments are faithful_] Heb. faithfulness, that is, they are true, sure, equal, infallible. _ T...

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

    _The proud have digged pits for me_ Have sought to destroy me by deceit and treachery, as well as by violence; _which are not after thy law_ Which pits, that is, which insidious designs against an inn...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    _ Caph._ The Consolation of God's Word in the Midst of Great Troubles....

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    All Thy commandments are faithful, altogether trustworthy and dependable; THEY PERSECUTE ME WRONGFULLY, with the usual false accusations as to his being an enemy of existing order and obstinately want...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    FAITHFUL: _ Heb._ faithfulness...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    81-88 The psalmist sought deliverance from his sins, his foes, and his fears. Hope deferred made him faint; his eyes failed by looking out for this expected salvation. But when the eyes fail, yet fai...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Psalms 119:86 commandments H4687 faithful H530 persecute H7291 (H8804) wrongfully H8267 Help H5826 (H8798) All thy -...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    Psalms 119:81. _My soul fainteth for thy salvation: but I hope in thy word._ The ship rocks, but the anchor holds; the singer is ready to faint, but he is not ready to despair. He knows where his res...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    Psalms 119:81. _My soul fainteth for thy salvation: but I hope in thy word._ The psalmist was so full of longings, hungerings, thirstings, for God's salvation that he had come even to faintness throu...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    In this Psalm we have, as it were, notes from David's pocket book. Psalms 119:73. _Thy hands have made me and fashioned me: give me understanding, that I may learn thy commandments._ This is a very...

  • 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 fainteth for Thy salvation: but I hope in Thy Word._ PAINFUL SOUL MOODS AND THEIR ANTIDOTES I. Painful moods of soul. 1. Painful yearning (Psalms 119:81). (1) The general objects of this...

  • 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 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

    Psalms 19:9; Jeremiah 18:20; Psalms 1:1; Psalms 119:78; Psalms 35:19;

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Faithful — Just and true....

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