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LETTER ש SCHIN. - _TWENTY-FIRST DIVISION_
Verse Psalms 119:161. _PRINCES HAVE PERSECUTED ME_] This may refer to
what was done by _prime ministers_, and the rulers of provinces, to
sour the king agai...
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PRINCES HAVE PERSECUTED ME WITHOUT A CAUSE - This commences a new
division of the psalm, indicated by the Hebrew letter _Schin_ (שׂ
_ś_, and שׁ _sh_) - corresponding to our “s,” or “sh.” On
the meani...
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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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PRINCES. Rulers.
WORD. Same word as in Psalms 119:9. Some codices, with Septuagint and
Vulgate, read "words" (plural)...
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PRINCES— The rulers and prime ministers of thy kingdom. _But my
heart standeth in awe;_ namely, so as to do nothing contrary to thy
word in my own vindication. See 1 Samuel 24:6; 1 Samuel 26:9....
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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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Princes have persecuted me without a cause: but my heart standeth in
awe of thy word.
PRINCES HAVE PERSECUTED ME WITHOUT A CAUSE - as Saul did David (; ;
). Virtually Saul and his party were trying...
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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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PRINCES] probably it was Israel, i.e. the Jewish nation, that was so
persecuted....
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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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SCHIN.
(161) PRINCES. — Here again we have an indication of the national
character of the psalm. It was the whole community which suffered from
the intrigues and violence of princes....
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שָׂ֭רִים רְדָפ֣וּנִי חִנָּ֑ם
_וּ֝_†_מִ_†_דְּבָרְךָ֗_† פָּחַ֥ד...
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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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JEHOVAH INSPIRES CONTINUAL PRAISE
Psalms 119:161
What a noble conclusion we reach in these closing stanzas! _I rejoice
at thy word; thy law do I love; seven times a day do I praise thee;
let my lips...
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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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SCHIN. Princes have (a) persecuted me without a cause: but my heart
standeth in awe of thy word.
(a) The threatenings and persecutions of princes could not cause me to
cease to confess you whom I fea...
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SCHIN.
Still prosecuting the same subject of suffering, here are the same
petitions lodged before the throne. The apostle to the Hebrews was
commissioned by the Holy Ghost to teach the church some ver...
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161_Princes have persecuted me without a cause. _(34) Here the
Psalmist, informs us that sore and grievous as his temptation had
been, he was restrained by the fear of God from desiring to attempt
any...
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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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v, SCHIN.--THE TWENTY-FIRST PART.
Ver. 161. SCHIN. PRINCES HAVE PERSECUTED ME WITHOUT A CAUSE,.... These
were either the princes of the Philistines at the court of Achish; or
the princes of Israel, w...
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SCHIN. Princes have persecuted me without a cause: but my heart
standeth in awe of thy word.
Ver. 161. _Princes have persecuted me without a cause_] And
_ Quae venit indigne poena, dolenda venit._...
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_SCHIN._
Psalms 119:161. _Princes_ The rulers and prime ministers of thy
kingdom; _have persecuted me_ Whom they ought to have used their
authority to protect, knowing me to be innocent and injured; _...
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Princes, the mighty and influential ones of the earth, HAVE PERSECUTED
ME WITHOUT A CAUSE, although he had done nothing which might justly
have provoked their hatred; BUT MY HEART STANDETH IN AWE OF T...
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_ Schin_ (and _ Sin_) The Believer's Fellowship with God in Prayer....
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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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SCHIN Ver. 161. PRINCES; who had power to do it, and who ought to have
used their authority to protect me, whom they knew to be innocent and
injured. BUT MY HEART STANDETH IN AWE OF THY WORD; but I fe...
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Psalms 119:161 Princes H8269 persecute H7291 (H8804) cause H2600 heart
H3820 awe H6342 (H8804) word H1697...
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Psalms 119:153. _Consider mine affliction, and deliver me: for I do
not forget thy law._
As much as if he said, «Lord, I do not forget thee; do not forget
me.» Thy grace has kept my memory; let thy g...
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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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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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_Princes have persecuted me without a cause: but my heart standeth in
awe of Thy Word._
A COMMON FACT AND A RARE EXPERIENCE
I. A common fact. The history of persecution and martyrdom has been,
if no...
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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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But — But I feared thine offence and displeasure more than their
wrath....