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Verse Psalms 119:29. _THE WAY OF LYING_] The propensity to _falsity_
and _prevarication_, whatsoever is contrary to _truth_. _Remove me_
from its solicitations, and _remove_ it from _me_. "Grant me t...
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REMOVE FROM ME - Take it from me; cause it to depart; let me not be
under its influence or power.
THE WAY OF LYING - Every false, deceitful, hypocritical way. We are
not to suppose that the psalmist w...
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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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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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Remove from me the way of lying: and grant me thy law graciously.
REMOVE FROM ME THE WAY OF LYING; AND GRANT ME THY LAW GRACIOUSLY.
"The way of lying" is every unfaithfulness to the covenant - i:e....
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WAY OF LYING] i.e. faithlessness to God's law....
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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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WAY OF LYING. — Not of falsehood to men so much as insincerity and
unfaithfulness towards God, the opposite of the truth and faithfulness
of Psalms 119:30.
GRANT ME. — Rather, _be gracious to me acco...
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דֶּֽרֶךְ ־שֶׁ֭קֶר הָסֵ֣ר מִמֶּ֑נִּי
וְֽ תֹורָתְךָ֥...
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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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A PRAYER FOR UNDERSTANDING
Psalms 119:17
These verses are full of yearning and unsatisfied desire. The soul
breaks for longing, cleaves to the dust, and melts for heaviness. We
are reminded of the co...
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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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Remove from me the (d) way of lying: and grant me thy law graciously.
(d) Instruct me in your word, by which my mind may be purged from
vanity and taught to obey your will....
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DALETH.
These verses compose the fourth part of this divine Psalm. Whether
David, the supposed writer of it, thus complains in himself; or
whether it means the Son of David, who in another part declar...
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29._Take away from me the way of falsehood. _Knowing how prone the
nature of man is to vanity and falsehood, he first asks the
sanctification of his thoughts, lest, being entangled by the snares of
Sa...
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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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REMOVE FROM ME THE WAY OF LYING,.... Not the sin of lying to men, and
a course of it, which David was not addicted to; but a "false way", or
"way of falsehood" b; as it may be rendered, and so the Tar...
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Remove from me the way of lying: and grant me thy law graciously.
Ver. 29. _Remove from me the way of lying_] A sin that David, through
diffidence, fell into frequently. See 1Sa 21:2; 1 Samuel 21:8,...
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_Remove from me the way of lying_ Hebrew, דרךְ שׁקר, _dereech
sheker_, the way of _falsehood_ or _deceit_, of guile or
dissimulation. Let me neither practise it myself, nor countenance, nor
be deceive...
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_ Daleth._ The Grace of Being Confirmed in the Truth....
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Remove from me the way of lying, of unfaithfulness, of denial of the
truth, AND GRANT ME THY LAW GRACIOUSLY, the believer asking this only
as a gift of mercy on the part of God, since he knows that he...
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25-32 While the souls of the children of this world cleave to the
earth as their portion, the children of light are greatly burdened,
because of the remains of carnal affections in their hearts. It i...
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THE WAY OF LYING; or, _of falsehood_; either,
1. The practice of lying, and dissembling, and cheating, which is so
rife in Saul's court, and in the courts of most princes; but, Lord,
let it not be so...
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By the help of God's Holy Spirit, this psalm may serve for the
purposes of self-examination, for we may ask ourselves as we read,
«Do I feel in that way? Are my prayers like those of this good man?
Is...
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Psalms 119:25. _My soul cleaveth unto the dust: quicken thou me
according to thy word._
«I feel heavy, unhappy, dull: ‘My soul cleaveth unto the dust.' Or
I feel worldly, lethargic, lifeless: ‘My sou...
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Psalms 119:25. _My soul cleaveth unto the dust:_
«It sticks to it as though it were glued to it; my soul cannot be
lifted up, at least by myself, out of its sadness, and its
earthiness.» The psalmist...
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Psalms 119:21. _Thou hast rebuked the proud that are cursed, which do
err from thy commandments._
Wherever there is pride in the heart, there is sure to be error in the
life. A proud man is wrong, to...
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Psalms 119:9. _Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way? by
taking heed thereto according to thy word._
«Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way?» A vital and solemn
question. His way is f...
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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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_Remove from me the way of lying: and grant me Thy law graciously._
LYING
I. The faculty of lying. Man has a faculty for misrepresenting facts
and for deceiving men. The mere possession of this facu...
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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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Psalms 141:3; Psalms 141:4; 1 John 1:8; 1 John 2:4; Ephesians 4:22;...
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Grant me — Vouchsafe me an accurate knowledge of thy word, and let
me govern myself by it in all things....