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I CRIED UNTO THEE - I called upon thee in trouble.
SAVE ME, AND I SHALL KEEP THY TESTIMONIES - Margin, “That I may
keep.” The correct rendering is, “I will keep.” The idea is,
that if God would interp...
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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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CRIED. called. Figure of speech _Anaphora._ App-6....
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DISCOURSE: 712
DAVID’S DESIRE TO SERVE GOD
Psalms 119:145. _I cried with my whole heart; Hear me, O Lord: I will
keep thy statutes. I cried unto thee; save me, and I shall keep thy
testimonies. I pre...
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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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I cried unto thee; save me, and I shall keep thy testimonies.
I CRIED UNTO THEE; SAVE ME, AND I SHALL KEEP THY TESTIMONIES. The
realization of our salvation as an experienced fact is the strongest...
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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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קְרָאתִ֥יךָ הֹושִׁיעֵ֑נִי וְ֝
אֶשְׁמְרָ֗ה עֵדֹתֶֽיךָ׃...
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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 JOY OF COMMUNION WITH GOD
Psalms 119:145
There is great eagerness in the psalmist's prayerfulness. He calls
with his whole heart; he awakes before the dawn and continues long
after the fall of ni...
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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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KOPH.
These verses give us an interesting view of Jesus, and are descriptive
of some of those conflicts, under which he was constrained to lift up
his voice to God his Father, with strong cryings and...
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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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I CRIED UNTO THEE; SAVE ME,.... In his distress he cried and prayed to
the Lord; and this was a principal and leading petition, that he would
"save" him out of all his troubles and afflictions, and ou...
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I cried unto thee; save me, and I shall keep thy testimonies.
Ver. 146. _I cried unto thee; save me_] Salvation properly denoteth
the privative part of a man's felicity, but iucludeth the positive
pa...
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_ Koph._ Constant Prayer for Faithfulness over against Opposition....
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I cried unto Thee; save me, with a gracious deliverance, AND I SHALL
KEEP THY TESTIMONIES, observing carefully what God testified of
Himself and His works in His Word....
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AND I SHALL KEEP THY TESTIMONIES:
Or, that I may keep...
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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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No text from Poole on this verse....
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Psalms 119:146 out H7121 (H8804) Save H3467 (H8685) keep H8104 (H8799)
testimonies H5713
and I shall keep - or, that I may keep,...
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Psalms 119:145. _I cried with my whole heart: hear me, O LORD: I will
keep thy statutes._
In the time of trouble there is no resort like that of prayer, but it
must be intense and earnest. «I cried w...
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Psalms 119:145. _I cried with my whole heart; hear me. O LORD: I will
keep thy statutes._
It is sweet to look back upon our prayers, if those prayers were
uttered with our whole heart, for it is no s...
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Psalms 119:137. _Righteous art thou, O LORD, and upright are thy
judgments._
It is well to be able to say this when you are being tried, when the
hand of God lies heavy upon you; it is hard to kick a...
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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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_I cried with my whole heart; hear me, O Lord: I will keep Thy
statutes._
CRIES OF DISTRESS
Do we, or do we not, desire to get rid of every evil way? Are we
anxious to be sincere and without offence...
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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...