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CONSIDER HOW I LOVE THY PRECEPTS - Search me. Behold the evidence of
my attachment to thy law. This is the confident appeal of one who was
conscious that he was truly attached to God; that he really l...
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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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Consider how I love thy precepts: quicken me, O LORD, according to
thy lovingkindness.
CONSIDER HOW I LOVE THY PRECEPTS. Translate (the Hebrew being the
same as in ), 'Behold how I love thy precept...
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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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רְ֭אֵה כִּי ־פִקּוּדֶ֣יךָ
אָהָ֑בְתִּי יְ֝הוָ֗ה כְּֽ...
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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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THE JOY OF COMMUNION WITH GOD
Psalms 119:145
There is great eagerness in the psalmist's prayerfulness. He calls
with his whole heart; he awakes before the dawn and continues long
after the fall of ni...
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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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RESH.
The same cries of soul are continued through this portion as in the
former; and we may, without any forced construction of the words,
consider what is here said as peculiarly applicable to the m...
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159._Behold, O Jehovah how I have loved thy commandments. _What I have
state before must be remembered — that when the saints speak of
their own piety before God they are not chargeable with obtruding...
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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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CONSIDER HOW I LOVE THY PRECEPTS,.... How ardently and affectionately,
how cordially and sincerely, Psalms 119:127; and that was the reason
why he was so grieved and distressed when wicked men transgr...
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Consider how I love thy precepts: quicken me, O LORD, according to thy
lovingkindness.
Ver. 159. _Consider how I love thy precepts_] And love facilitateth
duty, helping us over all the hardship of ho...
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_Many are my persecutors_ David, being a public person, had many
enemies. In this he was a type both of Christ and of his church. The
enemies, the persecutors of both, are many, implacable and unweari...
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_ Resh._ The Increasing Confidence of the Believer....
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Consider how I love Thy precepts, marking well this love for the Word
which is characteristic of all true children of God. QUICKEN ME, O
LORD, ACCORDING TO THY LOVING-KINDNESS, the appeal being again...
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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...
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I LOVE THY PRECEPTS; which was the cause of my grief for their
violation of them....
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Psalms 119:159 Consider H7200 (H8798) love H157 (H8804) precepts H6490
Revive H2421 (H8761) LORD H3068 lovingk
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Psalms 119:153. _Consider mine affliction, and deliver me: for I do
not forget thy law._
As much as if he said, «Lord, I do not forget thee; do not forget
me.» Thy grace has kept my memory; let thy g...
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Psalms 119:145. _I cried with my whole heart: hear me, O LORD: I will
keep thy statutes._
In the time of trouble there is no resort like that of prayer, but it
must be intense and earnest. «I cried w...
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Psalms 119:145. _I cried with my whole heart; hear me. O LORD: I will
keep thy statutes._
It is sweet to look back upon our prayers, if those prayers were
uttered with our whole heart, for it is no s...
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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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_Many are my persecutors and mine enemies._
THE TRIALS AND TRAITS OF PIETY
I. The trials of piety. They are twofold--objective and subjective.
1. Objective. “Many are my persecutors and enemies.” “...
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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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2 Kings 20:3; Nehemiah 13:22; Nehemiah 5:19; Psalms 119:153;...