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Joseph Benson’s Bible Commentary

Psalms 119:7,8

I will praise thee That is, worship and serve thee; with uprightness of heart With a single eye to thy glory, and with a sincere desire to know and do thy will; when I shall have learned, &c. When, by thy good Spirit, I shall be more fully instructed in the meaning of thy word. I will keep thy statutes It is my full purpose so to do, whatsoever it may cost me. O forsake me not utterly For then I should fall into the foulest sins. Not that he was contented to be forsaken in the least degree, but this he more especially deprecates, as he had great reason to do.

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See also Psalms 119:7,8 in other biblical comments:

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    I WILL PRAISE THEE WITH UPRIGHTNESS OF HEART - With an upright and sincere heart. WHEN I SHALL HAVE LEARNED - Hebrew, “In my learning.” In the practice or act of learning them. His own experience of t...

  • 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

    PRAISE. give thanks, as in Psalms 92:1, &c. RIGHTEOUS. righteousness: i.e. judgments of Thy righteousness. The eighth in order of the ten words. See App-73. JUDGMENTS. The seventh in order of the te...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    I WILL PRAISE THEE, &C.— _I do homage to thee in honesty of heart, when I am learning the judgments of thy righteousness._ This expresses the rapture that he is in when learning the laws of God. He ca...

  • 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 will praise thee with uprightness of heart, when I shall have learned thy righteous judgments. I WILL PRAISE THEE WITH UPRIGHTNESS OF HEART (I:E., SINCERITY; AS OPPOSED TO FORMAL LIP SERVICE), WH...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    119:7 thanks (g-5) Or 'I will praise thee.' judgments. (h-17) Or 'ordinances.' so throughout....

  • 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)....

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    אֹ֭ודְךָ בְּ יֹ֣שֶׁר לֵבָ֑ב בְּ֝ לָמְדִ֗י מִש

  • 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

    GOD'S WORD AN INNER POWER Psalms 119:1 This long and noble psalm is devoted to the praise of God's Word, which is mentioned in every verse but one, Psalms 119:122. Probably if we were to substitute _...

  • 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

    I will praise thee with uprightness of (d) heart, when I shall have learned thy righteous (e) judgments. (d) For true religion stands in serving God without hypocrisy. (e) That is, your precepts, wh...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

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  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    If by judgments were meant the strict letter of God's law, how is it possible to conceive that the Psalmist should express himself, as he hath in this Psalm, in love with them? My soul (saith he) brea...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    7._I will praise thee _He affirms it to be a singular instance of the loving-kindness of God, if a person has made considerable proficiency in his law. As a token and testimony of this, he here puts t...

  • 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

    I WILL PRAISE THEE WITH UPRIGHTNESS OF HEART,.... In the most sincere manner, in the most affectionate way, with the whole heart; sensible of great favours received, and great obligations laid under;...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    I will praise thee with uprightness of heart, when I shall have learned thy righteous judgments. Ver. 7. _I will praise thee with uprightness_] David was yet but a learner; and if God would teach him...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE CHRISTIAN'S GOLDEN ABC OF THE PRAISE, POWER, AND VALUE OF GOD'S WORD. This beautiful psalm, whose writer is not known, is divided into twenty-two sections of eight verses each. All the verses in t...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    I will praise Thee with uprightness of heart, without a trace of hypocrisy, WHEN I SHALL HAVE LEARNED THY RIGHTEOUS JUDGMENTS, the decisions based upon God's justice, of approval as well as of condemn...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    THY RIGHTEOUS JUDGMENTS: _ Heb._ judgments of thy righteousness...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    1-8 This psalm may be considered as the statement of a believer's experience. As far as our views, desires, and affections agree with what is here expressed, they come from the influences of the Holy...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    PRAISE THEE, i.e. worship thee; one eminent duty of God's worship being put for all, as is frequent in Scripture. WITH UPRIGHTNESS OF HEART; or, _with a right mind_ or _heart_; in a right manner, so a...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Psalms 119:7 praise H3034 (H8686) uprightness H3476 heart H3824 learn H3925 (H8800) righteous H6664 judgments H4941

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    It is not easy to see the special subjects that are spoken of by David in each of the short portions of eight verses, yet I do not doubt that if each portion were very carefully examined, we should se...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    The first eight verses of this Psalm, in the Hebrew, begin with the letter A, and the second eight begin with the letter B. The whole Psalm is the good man's alphabet; the Holy Spirit condescended to...

  • 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

    _I will praise Thee with uprightness of heart._ THE DUTY OF THANKFULNESS Thankfulness is a duty wherein we are all obliged to the Lord. It is good in regard of the equity of it. Since the Lord gives...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Blessed are the undefiled in the way, who walk in the law of the Lord._ MORAL LAW I. There is a Divine moral law for the regulation of moral life. The Creator has given a law to every creature He h...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    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

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    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;...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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...

  • 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

    1 Chronicles 143:10; 1 Chronicles 25:4; 1 Chronicles 25:5; 1 Chronicles 25:8;...

  • Wells of Living Water Commentary

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  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    When — When by thy good spirit I shall he more fitly instructed in the meaning of thy word....

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