“ I have not departed from thy judgments: for thou hast taught me. ”
I have not departed from thy judgments - Thy law; thy commands. This cannot mean that he had never done this, but that as a great rule of life he had not done it. The character and aim of his lif...
I have not departed from thy judgments: for (c) thou hast taught me. (c) So then of ourselves we can do nothing, but when God inwardly instructs us with his spirit, we feel his graces sweeter than h...
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...
departed . swerved. taught . directed.
I have not departed from thy judgments: for thou hast taught me.
I have not departed from thy judgments: for thou hast taught me. I have not departed from thy judgments: for thou hast taught me - inwardly by the Spirit, without which all other teaching is...
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 not departed from thy judgments ,.... From the precepts of the word, from the ways and worship and ordinances of God; he had not wickedly and on purpose departed from them; whenever he did, i...
I have not departed from thy judgments: for thou hast taught me. Ver. 102. I have not departed from thy judyments ] i.e. From thy law, which is called judgments, because God will thereby judge t...
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...
102 I have not departed from thy judgments: for thou hast taught me. Here is, 1. David's constancy in his religion. He had not departed from God's judgments; he had not chosen any...
To wit, by thy blessed Spirit, illuminating my mind, and working upon my heart, which other teachers cannot do.
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.
1 John 2:19 ; 1 John 2:27 ; 1 Thessalonians 2:13 ; Ephesians 4:20-24 ; Jeremiah 32:40 ; Proverbs 5:7 ; Psalms 18:21
Taught me — By thy blessed spirit, illuminating my mind, and working upon my heart.