“ I have refrained my feet from every evil way, that I might keep thy word. ”
I have refrained my feet from every evil way - I have walked in the path which thy law marks out. I have avoided the way of wickedness, and have not yielded to the seductions of a sinful life....
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. a...
evil. Hebrew. ra'a'. App-44. way. Including religious way, in the sense of Acts 9:2 ; Acts 19:9 ; Acts 19:23 ; Acts 24:14 . Compare Acts 16:17 ; Acts 18:26 . especially in Psalms 119:10...
101. I have restrained my feet from every evil path He intimates that he proclaimed war against every vice, that he might wholly devote himself to the service of God. From this we learn the...
I have refrained my feet from every evil way, that I might keep thy word. I have refrained my feet - By avoiding all sin, the spirit of wisdom still continues to rest upon me.
I have refrained my feet from every evil way, that I might keep thy word. I have refrained my feet from every evil way, that I might keep thy word. My object in refraining from all evil is no...
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...
Psalms 119:1-176 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 i...
“Thy Word Is a Lamp, unto My Feet” Psalms 119:97-112 The psalmist cries, O how love I thy law! He then proceeds to say that he has become wiser than his enemies and has more understanding tha...
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 sign...
MEM. Reader! let us listen to these sweet words, as the words of Jesus. Let us beg of God the Holy Ghost to give us grace to feel and know our interest in what he here saith, from our interest in hi...
I have refrained my feet from every evil way ,.... Of error or immorality, forbidden and condemned by the word of God; every way that is evil in itself, or leads to evil, and in which evil men walk;...
I have refrained my feet from every evil way, that I might keep thy word. Ver. 101. I have refrained my feet, &c. ] I have clapped up my unruly affections close prisoners, and hampered them;...
I have refrained, &c., from every evil way Every way which either is evil, or leads to evil; sin, and the temptations or occasions of sin; that I might keep thy word Not for any worldly or ca...
101 I have refrained my feet from every evil way, that I might keep thy word. Here is, 1. David's care to avoid the ways of sin: " I have refrained my feet from the evil ways they w...
Evil way; or, way of evil ; which either is evil, or leads to it; sin, and the temptations or occasions of sin. That, I might keep thy word; I did this not for any carnal reasons, as some men ab...
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 119:89 . For ever, O LORD, thy word is settled in heaven. It is not a changeable or vanishing thing: «Thy word is settled,» settled for ever, settled «for ever in heaven.» As God changes n...
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 mos...
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...
Mem. God's Word the Essence of True Wisdom.
Psalms 18:23 ; 1 Peter 2:1 ; 1 Peter 2:2 ; 1 Peter 3:10 ; 1 Peter 3:11 ; Isaiah 53:6 ; Isaiah 55:7 ; Jeremiah 2:36 ; Proverbs 1:15 ; Titus 2:11 ; Titus 2:12