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 same throughout, viz. the great help and guidance and comfort to be derived from studying continually... [ Continue Reading ]
STRANGER] or, 'sojourner,' passenger, with but a short time to learn God's will.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE PROUD] perhaps Jews who had been influenced by foreign culture.... [ Continue Reading ]
QUICKEN] i.e. revive.... [ Continue Reading ]
WAY OF LYING] i.e. faithlessness to God's law.... [ Continue Reading ]
MY REPROACH WHICH I FEAR] viz. of sinning against God.... [ Continue Reading ]
He prays never to be deprived of the power of testifying to God's trathfulness. 46, BEFORE KINGS] i.e. in exile.... [ Continue Reading ]
'Melodies have thy statutes been to me in the house of my sojourning,' i.e. in this brief life: cp. Psalms 39:12.... [ Continue Reading ]
'This (comfort) I have that I have kept thy law.'... [ Continue Reading ]
FAT AS GREASE] dull, gross: cp. Job 15:26; Isaiah 6:10.... [ Continue Reading ]
BOTTLE] RM 'wine skin.' Bottles were made of the untanned hide of an animal. In the smoke they would be dried up, shrivelled and useless. Such Israel seemed to be in captivity.... [ Continue Reading ]
HOW MANY, etc.] i.e. my days are few.... [ Continue Reading ]
THEY] i.e. the heavens and the earth.... [ Continue Reading ]
The most perfect earthly things are finite and limited; but God's law is for all needs and for all time.... [ Continue Reading ]
MY SOUL, etc.] i.e. my life is ever in jeopardy.... [ Continue Reading ]
THEIR DECEIT _is_ FALSEHOOD] better, 'their self-deception is a lie.'... [ Continue Reading ]
FAIL FOR] fail through longing for.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE ENTRANCE] RV 'the opening,' i.e. the unfolding.... [ Continue Reading ]
USEST TO DO] i.e. art wont to do.... [ Continue Reading ]
VERY PURE] i.e. true metal: cp. Psalms 18:30.... [ Continue Reading ]
I PREVENTED, etc.] i.e. Before daybreak I cried.... [ Continue Reading ]
'Mine eyes forestall the night-watches,' i.e. when each watch comes I am already awake.... [ Continue Reading ]
PRINCES] probably it was Israel, i.e. the Jewish nation, that was so persecuted.... [ Continue Reading ]
SEVEN TIMES] i.e. very often.... [ Continue Reading ]
NOTHING SHALL OFFEND THEM] RV 'they have none occasion of stumbling.'... [ Continue Reading ]
LIKE A LOST SHEEP] probably refers to the Jews scattered in exile. The last clause of the v. precludes the idea of straying into sin.... [ Continue Reading ]