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Verse Psalms 119:24. _THY TESTIMONIES ALSO_ ARE - _my counsellors._]
אנשי עצתי _anshey atsathi_, "the men of my counsel." I sit
with them; and I consider every testimony thou hast given as a
particula...
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THY TESTIMONIES ALSO ARE MY DELIGHT - See the notes at Psalms 119:16.
He found his main happiness in the word of God.
AND MY COUNSELORS - Margin, as in Hebrew, “men of my counsel.” He
sought directio...
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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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ALSO. nevertheless. See Psalms 129:2.
MY COUNSELLORS. men (Hebrew. _'ish,_ App-14) of my counsel....
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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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Thy testimonies also are my delight and my counsellors.
THY TESTIMONIES ALSO (ARE) MY DELIGHT, (AND) MY COUNSELORS (; ) - in
opposition to the 'princes sitting' in council against me (). King
Alph...
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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).
THE STORY OF PSALMS 119
Solomon was king of Israel nearly 1000 years Be...
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COUNSELLORS. — See margin. Instead of taking the princes of Psalms
119:23 into counsel. he takes God’s testimonies....
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גַּֽם ־עֵ֭דֹתֶיךָ שַׁעֲשֻׁעָ֗י
אַנְשֵׁ֥י עֲצָתִֽי׃...
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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 c...
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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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GIMEL.
Here are again many very gracious and fervent breathings after divine
favor, which need nothing explanatory by way of comment. Some of them
very highly correspond with what might be supposed t...
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24._Also thy testimonies are my delight _The particle גם, _gam,
_connects this with the preceding verse. To adhere unflinchingly to
our purpose, when the world takes up an unjust opinion of us, and, a...
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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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THY TESTIMONIES ALSO [ARE] MY DELIGHT,.... Or "delights" x; exceeding
delightful to me. The whole of Scripture is so to a good man; he
delights in the law of God, after the inward man; the Gospel is a...
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Thy testimonies also [are] my delight [and] my counsellors.
Ver. 24. _Thy testimonies are my delight_] _In mediis crucibus; _ to
them I run as to my cordial; they are my pleasure and pastime.
_ And...
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_Remove from me reproach_ Which I suffer, and that unjustly, for thy
sake; _for I have kept thy testimonies_ And therefore I am innocent of
those things for which they censure and reproach me: or, and...
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_ Gimel._ Prayer For Enlightenment Unto A Godly Life....
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MY COUNSELLORS:
_ Heb._ men of my counsel...
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17-24 If God deals in strict justice with us, we all perish. We ought
to spend our lives in his service; we shall find true life in keeping
his word. Those that would see the wondrous things of God's...
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MY DELIGHT; my chief comfort under all their censures and
persecutions. MY COUNSELLORS, to teach me how to carry myself under
them....
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Psalms 119:24 testimonies H5713 delight H8191 counselors H582 H6098
testimonies - Psalms 119:16, Psalms 119:77, Psalms 119:92, Psalms
119:143, Psalms 119:162; Job 27:10;...
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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 reproach and contempt; for I have kept Thy
testimonies._
SOCIAL CONTEMPT AND CONSCIOUS RECTITUDE
I. Social contempt (verse 22).
1. Is a thing to be deprecated.
2. Is a thing not al...
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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 psalms as 1 and 112. It is the longes...
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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; Psalms 119:141; Psalms...
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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 prope...
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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 Timothy 3:15; Colossians 3:16; Deuteronomy 17:18; Isaiah 8:20;
Jeremiah 19:11; Jeremiah 6:10; Job 27:10; Joshua 1:8; Proverbs 6:20...
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THE WONDERFUL WORD
Psalms 119:1
INTRODUCTORY WORDS
When we hold the Bible in our hands we are holding a Book that is
distinct from any and every other book the world has ever known.
1. IT IS DISTI...