“ I am afflicted very much: quicken me, O LORD, according unto thy word. ”
I am afflicted very much - The form of the affliction is not mentioned. There are frequent allusions in the psalm to the fact that the author was and had been afflicted - as, in fact, must be the...
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...
107. I am greatly afflicted, O Jehovah! This verse teaches, that God did not cherish the fathers under the law in his bosom so delicately as not to exercise them with grievous temptations; f...
I am afflicted very much: quicken me, O LORD, according unto thy word. I am afflicted very much - עד מאד ad meod, "to extremity, excessively." We are in the most oppressive captivity. Quicken me - D...
I am afflicted very much: quicken me, O LORD, according unto thy word. I am afflicted very much: quicken me, O Lord, according unto thy word. Life was promised on the condition of obedience (...
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...
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...
I am afflicted very much ,.... In a temporal sense, in his body, in his family, and by his enemies; in a spiritual sense, with the corruptions of his heart, with the temptations of Satan, and with t...
I am afflicted very much: quicken me, O LORD, according unto thy word. Ver. 107. I am adflicted very much ] Usque valde, extremely. If David be so fully bent to obey God, he shall have troubles...
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...
107 I am afflicted very much: quicken me, O L ORD , according unto thy word. Here is, 1. The representation David makes of the sorrowful condition he was in: I am afflicted very muc...
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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. 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...
I am afflicted very much: quicken me, O Lord, according unto Thy Word. A common condition and an indispensable blessing I. A condition that is common to man. How varied the afflictions of men,...
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...
I am afflicted very much, bent down to the earth under the heavy burden of misery laid upon him; quicken me, O Lord, filling him with new spiritual life and strength, according unto Thy Word.
Psalms 22:14-18 ; Psalms 34:19 ; Psalms 6:1 ; Psalms 119:25 ; Psalms 119:88 ; Psalms 143:11