Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Psalms 119:43
Take not — Do not deal so with me, that I shall be ashamed to mention thy word. Judgments — In thy word.
Take not — Do not deal so with me, that I shall be ashamed to mention thy word. Judgments — In thy word.
Verse Psalms 119:43. _TAKE NOT THE WORD OF TRUTH_] Grant that the assurances which thy prophets have given to the people of approaching deliverance may not fall to the ground; let it appear that _they...
AND TAKE NOT THE WORD OF TRUTH UTTERLY OUT OF MY MOUTH - Do not take it entirely or altogether from me. Let me not be utterly hopeless; let me be at no time without some evidence that thy word dwells...
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...
TAKE NOT THY WORD OF TRUTH UTTERLY, &C.— The judgments of God were that word of truth in which he trusted: to pray God, therefore, not to take them out of his mouth, is the same as to pray that God wo...
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...
And take not the word of truth utterly out of my mouth; for I have hoped in thy judgments. AND TAKE NOT THE WORD OF TRUTH UTTERLY OUT OF MY MOUTH - take not from me, by withholding thy saving deliv...
119:43 hoped (a-16) The word means 'to wait with earnest desire and longing' (see Psalms 69:3 ); and so vers. 49,74,81,114,147; Psalms 147:11 , &c....
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...
He prays never to be deprived of the power of testifying to God's trathfulness. 46, BEFORE KINGS] i.e. in exile....
Psalms 107:150 _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ THE WORD OF GOD PSALMS 119 JESUS SAID, "IF YOU LOVE ME YOU WILL OBEY ME" (JOHN 14:15)....
וְֽ אַל ־תַּצֵּ֬ל מִ פִּ֣י דְבַר ־אֱמֶ֣ת
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...
LOVE FOR GOD'S COMMANDS Psalms 119:33 Twice over the psalmist says, “thy commandments which I have loved,” and then proceeds to give the key to perfect love of them in the words, “I will _meditate_ i...
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...
V A U. The Reader will not need information that Jesus is Jehovah's salvation unto the ends of the earth; Isaiah 49:6. And the answers of Jesus to those that reproached him, are fully set forth in the...
43._Take not the word of truth too long out of my mouth _(414) It may be asked, why he demands rather to have his tongue filled with, than his heart fortified by, the _word of truth; _inasmuch as the...
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...
AND TAKE NOT THE WORD OF TRUTH UTTERLY OUT OF MY MOUTH,.... The Scriptures, which are by divine inspiration, come from the God of truth, contain nothing but truth in them, and are called "the Scriptur...
And take not the word of truth utterly out of my mouth; for I have hoped in thy judgments. Ver. 43. _And take not the word of truth utterly_] Give me free utterance, "that in nothing I be ashamed; bu...
_VAU._ Psalms 119:41. _Let thy mercies_, &c. Let thy promised mercies be performed to me. _So shall I answer him that reproacheth me_ That chargeth me with folly for my piety and trust in thy promises...
And take not the Word of Truth, the believer's only weapon in his battle against unbelief, UTTERLY OUT OF MY MOUTH, this punishment of the Lord having occasionally struck such as did not properly appr...
_ Vau._ The Need of a Fearless Confession of the Divine Truth....
41-48 Lord, I have by faith thy mercies in view; let me by prayer prevail to obtain them. And when the salvation of the saints is completed, it will plainly appear that it was not in vain to trust in...
Do not deal so with me, that I shall be altogether ashamed to mention thy word, which I have so often affirmed to be a word of truth and infallible certainty, of which I have often made my boast. IN T...
Psalms 119:43 take H5337 (H8686) word H1697 truth H571 utterly H3966 mouth H6310 hoped H3176 (H8765) ordinances...
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...
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 2:23; Ephesians 1:13; Isaiah 59:21; James 1:18; Psalms 119:1