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See also Psalms 119 - Introduction in other biblical comments:

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    This is an Alphabetical Psalm - the longest, and most perfect in its kind, in the collection of Psalms. The peculiarity of the composition consists in this - that the first eight verses of the psalm b...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    This great "Psalm of the Law" is based upon the prophetic (Ezra 9:11) presentation of the Law in the Book of Deuteronomy, with the spirit and language of which its author's mind was saturated. It repr...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    CXIX. An acrostic must wear an artificial form, and one carried out on the elaborate plan set himself by this author could not fail to sacrifice logical sequence to the prescribed form. Why the number...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    INTRODUCTION TO PSALM 119 This psalm is generally thought to be written by David, but when is uncertain; very probably towards the decline of life; and, as some think, for the sake or his son Solomon...

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

    _A.M. 2987. B.C. 1017._ This Psalm is supposed to have been written by David, under the reign of Saul, in which he was frequently persecuted, but in which also he had some quiet intervals, (see Psalm...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    * The general scope and design of this psalm is to magnify the Divine law, and make it honourable. There are ten words by which Divine revelation is called in this psalm, and each expresses what God...

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