“ How sweet are thy words unto my taste! yea, sweeter than honey to my mouth! ”
How sweet are thy words unto my taste ... - Margin, as in Hebrew, “palate.” The reference is to the taste, perhaps because the sense of taste was supposed to reside in the palate. The Hebrew word...
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...
sweet . smooth, or agreeable. Not the same word as in Psalms 19:10 .
103. O how sweet have been thy words to my palate! He again repeats what he had previously stated in different words, that he was so powerfully attracted by the sweetness of the Divine Law,...
How sweet are thy words unto my taste! yea, sweeter than honey to my mouth! Sweeter than honey to my mouth! - What deep communion must this man have had with his Maker! These expressions show a sou...
How sweet are thy words unto my taste! yea, sweeter than honey to my mouth! How sweet are thy words unto my taste! yea, sweeter than honey to my mouth - ( Psalms 19:10 .) The spiritual 'palate...
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...
How sweet are thy words unto my taste !.... Who had a spiritual one; and could discern perverse things, and could taste how good and gracious the Lord is: and so his words were sweet unto him; the d...
How sweet are thy words unto my taste! [yea, sweeter] than honey to my mouth! Ver. 103. How sweet are thy words unto my taste! ] Heb. to my palate; Syr. coelis gutturis mei, the roof of the mout...
How sweet are thy words to my taste! Observe, reader, there is such a thing as a spiritual taste, an inward savour and relish of divine things; such an evidence of them to ourselves, by experience,...
103 How sweet are thy words unto my taste! yea, sweeter than honey to my mouth! 104 Through thy precepts I get understanding: therefore I hate every false way. Here is, 1. The wo...
The study and obedience of thy words yields me more satisfaction and delight than any worldly men find in their sensual pleasures.
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...
How sweet are Thy words unto my taste! yea, sweeter than honey to my mouth! The best Christmas fare I like this way of describing the reception of God’s Word as a matter of eating, for a man c...
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.
Job 23:12 ; Proverbs 24:13 ; Proverbs 24:14 ; Proverbs 3:17 ; Proverbs 8:11 ; Psalms 19:10 ; Psalms 63:5 ; Song of Solomon 1:2-4 ; Song of Solomon 5:1