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THE WICKED HAVE WAITED FOR ME TO DESTROY ME - That is, they have lain
in wait; or, they have laid a plan. They are watching the opportunity
to do it.
BUT I WILL CONSIDER THY TESTIMONIES - I will thin...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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The wicked have waited for me to destroy me: but I will consider thy
testimonies.
THE WICKED HAVE WAITED FOR ME TO DESTROY ME - ( .) (BUT) I WILL
CONSIDER THY TESTIMONIES - as Daniel was not turne...
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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...
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Psalms 107:150
_GORDON CHURCHYARD_
THE WORD OF GOD
PSALMS 119
JESUS SAID, "IF YOU LOVE ME YOU WILL OBEY ME" (JOHN 14:15)....
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לִ֤י קִוּ֣וּ רְשָׁעִ֣ים לְ
אַבְּדֵ֑נִי עֵ֝דֹתֶ֗יךָ...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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LAMED.
Here is a beautiful address to Jehovah, in contemplation of his own
eternal nature, the everlasting purposes and unchangeableness of his
councils, and all his ordinances, providences, and dispe...
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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...
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THE WICKED HAVE WAITED FOR ME TO DESTROY ME,.... This is another
reason why he desires the Lord would save him; because wicked men,
such who feared not God, nor regarded men, sons of Belial; such as
S...
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The wicked have waited for me to destroy me: [but] I will consider thy
testimonies.
Ver. 95. _The wicked have waited_] Nothing less than destruction will
satisfy persecutors; but the Lord knows how t...
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_Unless thy law had been my delight_ Unless I had known, believed, and
delighted in it, as the subject of my meditation; _I should then _ At
the very instant; _have perished in mine affliction_ My hea...
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_ Lamed._ The Imperishable Nature of the Divine Word....
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The wicked have waited for me to destroy me, their object being
thereby to remove the Word which the servant of the Lord always quoted
against them; BUT I WILL CONSIDER THY TESTIMONIES, for the Word o...
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89-96 The settling of God's word in heaven, is opposed to the changes
and revolutions of the earth. And the engagements of God's covenant
are established more firmly than the earth itself. All the cr...
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Psalms 119:95 wicked H7563 wait H6960 (H8765) destroy H6 (H8763)
consider H995 (H8709) testimonies H5713...
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Psalms 119:89
I. In the Bible usually the Word of the Lord means not only the
message which God sends, but Him by whom God sends it. The Word of
God, Word of the Lord, is spoken of again and again not...
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Psalms 119:89. _For ever, O LORD, thy word is settled in heaven._
Other things come, and go, and change, moons wax and wane, tides ebb
and flow, everything earthly is changeable; but «Thy word is set...
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Psalms 119:89. _For ever, O LORD, thy word is settled in heaven._
It is not a changeable or vanishing thing: «Thy word is settled,»
settled for ever, settled «for ever in heaven.» As God changes not,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_For ever, O Lord, Thy Word is settled in heaven._
MY SOLACE IN AFFLICTION
I. Here we have strong consolation in certain facts which he
remembered. Fly ye to the mountains when the enemy invades the...
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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
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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;...
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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...
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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...
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1 Samuel 23:20; 2 Samuel 17:1; Acts 12:11; Acts 23:21; Acts 25:3;...