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Psalms 119:113

PSALM—NOTE ON Psalms 119:113 double-minded. See 1 Kings 18:21. These are people who should be devoted to the Lord but who allow their loyalties to be divided. The strong terms hate and love refer not so much to emotions as to deliberate rejection and obedience. See Psalms 119:158; see also v. Psalms 119:118, where this reflects God’s own attitude.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    LETTER ס SAMECH. - _FIFTEENTH DIVISION_ Verse Psalms 119:113. _I HATE_ VAIN _THOUGHTS_] I have hated סעפים _seaphim_, "tumultuous, violent men." I abominate all _mobs_ and _insurrections_, and troubl...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    I HATE VAIN THOUGHTS - This commences a new portion of the psalm, distinguished by the Hebrew letter _Samech_ (ס _s_), answering to our “s.” The word rendered “vain thoughts” occurs only in this place...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    THOUGHTS. divided or doubting thoughts. Same root as 1 Kings 18:21 (compare James 1:8); or, them that are of double mind....

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    I HATE WILD IMAGINATIONS— The original word סעפים _seiaphiim,_ signifies the shootings or branchings of the mind, all wild roving fancies, (such was the heathen theology) in opposition to the truth an...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    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...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    I hate vain thoughts: but thy law do I love. I HATE VAIN THOUGHTS: BUT THY LAW DO I LOVE. "Vain thoughts" (as the antithesis to "thy law" shows) are all thoughts opposed to God's law, whether subtl...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    Psalms 107:150 _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ THE WORD OF GOD PSALMS 119 JESUS SAID, "IF YOU LOVE ME YOU WILL OBEY ME" (JOHN 14:15)....

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    SAMECH. (113) I HATE VAIN THOUGHTS. — Rather, _I hate men who halt between two opinions,_ following 1 Kings 18:21, where the cognate noun from the same root, _to divide,_ appears. Probably we are to t...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    סֵעֲפִ֥ים שָׂנֵ֑אתִי וְֽ תֹורָתְךָ֥ אָהָֽבְתִּי׃...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    SAMECH. I hate (a) [vain] thoughts: but thy law do I love. (a) Whoever will embrace God's word correctly must abhor all fantasies and imaginations both of himself and others....

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

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  • James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

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  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    113._I have hated crooked thoughts. _Those who are of opinion that the word סעפום _seaphim, _the first in the verse, and which is rendered _crooked thoughts, _is an appellate noun, translate it, _thos...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

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  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    SAMECH. I hate [vain] thoughts: but thy law do I love. Ver. 113. _I hate vain thoughts_] Which, though they may swarm in my head, shall never lodge in my heart, Jeremiah 4:14, for there I have entert...

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

    _SAMECH._ Psalms 119:113. _I hate vain thoughts_ Or, _wild imaginations_, as some render סעפים, a word which signifies the shootings, or branchings of the mind; namely, all wild, roving fancies, in op...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

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  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    _ Samech._ The Need of a Firm Stand for the Truth of God's Word....

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    SAMECH Ver. 113. THOUGHTS -this word signifies thoughts, JOB 4:13, JOB 20:2, or opinions, 1 KINGS 18:21; which being indifferent to good and evil, is here taken in an evil sense, for vain _thoughts_,...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Psalms 119:113 hate H8130 (H8804) double-minded H5588 love H157 (H8804) law H8451 hate -...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    Psalms 119:113 I. First, what are vain thoughts? (1) There are the vain, worldly thoughts, which we must hate. Thoughts which in themselves are perfectly harmless and innocent may become vain through...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    Psalms 119:1. _I hate vain thoughts: but thy law do I love._ Presumptuous thoughts, erroneous thoughts, wicked thoughts, foolish thoughts,-all three David hated. A good man ought to be a good hater,...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    The proper way in which to read these verses is to peruse them in the spirit of prayer, turning every verse into a personal supplication to God. I do trust that many of us may be so in the Spirit toda...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    We will read tonight two of the stanzas which make up the 119 th Psalm, beginning at the 105 th verse. Psalms 119:105. _Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path._ God's Word is full...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    Psalms 119:105. _Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path._ We are walkers through the city of this world, and we are often called to go out into its darkness; let us never venture t...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

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  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

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  • The Pulpit Commentaries

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  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    2 Corinthians 10:5; Isaiah 55:7; Jeremiah 4:14; Mark 7:21; Psal

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