“ The wicked have laid a snare for me: yet I erred not from thy precepts. ”
The wicked have laid a snare for me - As men do to take wild beasts or birds. See the notes at Psalms 119:85 . Compare Job 18:8 , note; Job 18:10 , note; Psalms 9:15 , note; Psalms 69:22 , n...
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...
erred . to err from the paths of virtue and piety. Hebrew. ta'ah . not the same word as in verses: Psalms 119:21 ; Psalms 119:118 .
110. The wicked have laid a snare for me The meaning of this verse is similar to that of the preceding. The prophet shows more definitely in what respect he carried his life in his hand; nam...
The wicked have laid a snare for me: yet I erred not from thy precepts. The wicked have laid a snare - Thus their lives were continually exposed to danger.
The wicked have laid a snare for me: yet I erred not from thy precepts. The wicked have laid a snare for me: yet I erred not from thy precepts - a commentary on Psalms 119:109 . In Psalms 1...
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...
The wicked have laid a snare for me ,.... To draw him into sin, and so into mischief; and even to take away his life, as they are said to dig pits for him, Psalms 119:85 ; yet I erred not from th...
The wicked have laid a snare for me: yet I erred not from thy precepts. Ver. 110. The wicked have laid a snare for me ] Such as, rather than their lives, would have had mine; such as sought and fa...
My soul is continually in my hand Exposed to perpetual and extreme danger, as any precious and frail thing is which a man carries openly in his hand, and which he may easily let fall, or be deprive...
109 My soul is continually in my hand: yet do I not forget thy law. 110 The wicked have laid a snare for me: yet I erred not from thy precepts. Here is, 1. David in danger of los...
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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...
My soul is continually in my hand. Religion Religion is here presented in three aspects. I. As a deeply felt need in the immediate prospect of death. “My soul is continually in my hand.” Tha...
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...
The wicked have laid a snare for me, to destroy him unawares; yet I erred not from Thy precepts, not daring to wander away from his one certain source of comfort and strength, the Word of God.
Daniel 6:10 ; Jeremiah 18:22 ; Luke 20:19-26 ; Proverbs 1:11 ; Proverbs 1:12 ; Psalms 10:8-18 ; Psalms 119:85 ; Psalms 124:6 ; Psalms 124:7 ; Psalms 140:5 ; Psalms 141:9