“ Through thy precepts I get understanding: therefore I hate every false way. ”
Through thy precepts I get understanding - A true understanding; a correct view of things; a knowledge of thee, of myself, of the human character, of the destiny of man, of the way of salvation -...
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...
104 By thy statutes I have acquired understanding The prophet seems here to invert the order he has just now laid down. He observed that he had kept his feet from going astray, that he might...
Through thy precepts I get understanding: therefore I hate every false way. Through thy precepts I get understanding - Spiritual knowledge increases while we tread in the path of obedience. Obedience...
Through thy precepts I get understanding: therefore I hate every false way. Through thy precepts I get understanding: therefore I hate every false way - (cf. Psalms 119:29 .) I get understan...
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...
Through thy precepts I get understanding ,.... Of the will of God; of his worship, the nature and manner of it; of his ordinances, their use and importance; and of his doctrines, and the excellency...
Through thy precepts I get understanding: therefore I hate every false way. Ver. 104. Through thy precepts I get understanding ] Those are the statutes of heaven; and as men, by studying the statu...
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...
Understanding; true, and useful and powerful knowledge. Therefore; because that discovers to me, as the wickedness, so the folly and mischief of such practices. Every false way; every thing whi...
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.
Amos 5:15 ; Matthew 7:13 ; Proverbs 14:12 ; Proverbs 8:13 ; Psalms 101:3 ; Psalms 119:100 ; Psalms 119:128 ; Psalms 119:29 ; Psalms 119:30 ; Psalms 119:98 ; Psalms 36:4 ; Psalms 97:10 ;...