“ NUN. Thy word is a lampk unto my feet, and a light unto my path. ”
Thy word is a lamp unto my feet - This begins a new portion of the psalm, indicated by the Hebrew letter Nun ( נ n ), equivalent to our “n.” The margin here is “candle.” The Hebrew word means a...
NUN. Thy word [is] a (a) lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path. (a) Of ourselves we are but darkness and cannot see unless we are lightened with God's 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...
lamp: or lantern, for light on the path for the feet; not merely. light for the eyes ( Psalms 19:8 ).
105. Thy word is a lamp to my feet. In this verse the Psalmist testifies that the Divine Law was his schoolmaster and guide in leading a holy life. He thus, by his own example, prescribes th...
NUN. Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path. Thy word is a lamp - This is illustrated thus by Solomon, Proverbs 6:23 : "The commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; and rep...
Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path. Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path. The Word is "a lamp" to us, a "light that shineth in a dark place until t...
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...
NUN. (105) See Proverbs 6:23 . So Wordsworth calls Duty: “A light to guide.”
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...
NUN. I pass over several very interesting observations which might be offered on the verses in this portion, (for there is not a part of them but is well calculated to make our meditation sweet); bu...
n, NUN.--The Fourteenth Part . Ver. 105. NUN. Thy word [is] a lamp unto my feet ,.... The same Solomon says of the law and commandment, the preceptive part of the word, Proverbs 6:23 ; and the Se...
NUN. Thy word [is] a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path. Ver. 105. Thy word is a lamp unto my feet ] Without the direction whereof, both for my whole course of life, and for every particu...
NUN. Psalms 119:105 . Thy word is a lamp unto my feet To direct me in all my doubts and difficulties, and to comfort me in all my fears and distresses. I have sworn, and will perform it I h...
14. NUN. 105 NUN. Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path. Observe here, 1. The nature of the word of God, and the...
NUN Ver. 105. To direct me in all my doubts and difficulties, to preserve from sin and misery, both which oft come under the name of darkness, and to comfort me in all my fears and distresses.
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 119:105 The two parts of this verse are not two different ways of saying the same thing. The word of God is a lamp or lantern to the feet at night; it is a light like that of the sun by day...
Psalms 119:89 . For ever, O LORD, thy word is settled in heaven. Other things come, and go, and change, moons wax and wane, tides ebb and flow, everything earthly is changeable; but «Thy word is...
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...
Thy Word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path. The Divine lamp God’s Word as a lamp is-- I. Ever needful. Man needs a guide through life. His mental eyes are dim, and the road is...
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...
Thy Word is a lamp unto my feet, guiding his footsteps past the abysses of so many and severe dangers, and a light unto my path, not with a dim and uncertain illumination, but with a direct and cle...
2 Peter 1:19 ; Ephesians 5:13 ; Job 29:3 ; Proverbs 6:23 ; Psalms 18:28 ; Psalms 19:8 ; Psalms 43:3