“ SAMECH. I hate vain thoughts: but thy law do I love. ”
I hate vain thoughts - This commences a new portion of the psalm, distinguished by the Hebrew letter Samech ( ס s ), answering to our “s.” The word rendered “vain thoughts” occurs only in thi...
SAMECH. I hate (a) [vain] thoughts: but thy law do I love. (a) Whoever will embrace God's word correctly must abhor all fantasies and imaginations both of himself and others.
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...
thoughts . divided or doubting thoughts. Same root as 1 Kings 18:21 (compare James 1:8 ); or, them that are of double mind.
113. I have hated crooked thoughts. Those who are of opinion that the word סעפום seaphim, the first in the verse, and which is rendered crooked thoughts, is an appellate noun, transla...
SAMECH. I hate vain thoughts: but thy law do I love. I hate vain thoughts - I have hated סעפים seaphim, "tumultuous, violent men." I abominate all mobs and insurrections, and troublers of the publi...
I hate wild imaginations— The original word סעפים seiaphiim, signifies the shootings or branchings of the mind, all wild roving fancies, (such was the heathen theology) in opposition to the truth...
I hate vain thoughts: but thy law do I love. I hate vain thoughts: but thy law do I love. "Vain thoughts" (as the antithesis to "thy law" shows) are all thoughts opposed to God's law, whether...
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...
SAMECH. (113) I hate vain thoughts. — Rather, I hate men who halt between two opinions, following 1 Kings 18:21 , where the cognate noun from the same root, to divide, appears. Probably we...
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...
“Time for the Lord to Work” Psalms 119:113-128 There is an ineradicable difference between the child of God and evil-doers, and the believer does not want to be involved in their fate. Therefor...
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...
SAMECH. After the observations which have been proposed upon the foregoing portions of this most blessed Psalm, the Reader will not be surprised, neither, I hope, offended, if I go on to accept this...
A GOOD HATER! ‘I hate vain thoughts.’ Psalms 119:113 I. First, what are vain thoughts? —(1) There are the vain, worldly thoughts, which we must hate. Thoughts which in themselves are perfec...
o, SAMECH.--The Fifteenth Part . Ver. 113. SAMECH. I hate vain thoughts ,.... Or thoughts: evil thoughts are undoubtedly meant, no other can be the object of hatred to a good man; they are such as...
SAMECH. I hate [vain] thoughts: but thy law do I love. Ver. 113. I hate vain thoughts ] Which, though they may swarm in my head, shall never lodge in my heart, Jeremiah 4:14 , for there I have en...
SAMECH. Psalms 119:113 . I hate vain thoughts Or, wild imaginations , as some render סעפים, a word which signifies the shootings, or branchings of the mind; namely, all wild, roving fancies,...
15. SAMECH. 113 I hate vain thoughts: but thy law do I love. Here we have, 1. David's dread of the risings of sin, and the first beg...
SAMECH Ver. 113. Thoughts -this word signifies thoughts, Job 4:13 , Job 20:2 , or opinions, 1 Kings 18:21 ; which being indifferent to good and evil, is here taken in an evil sense, for va...
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 119:113 I. First, what are vain thoughts? (1) There are the vain, worldly thoughts, which we must hate. Thoughts which in themselves are perfectly harmless and innocent may become vain thro...
Psalms 119:105 . Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path. We are walkers through the city of this world, and we are often called to go out into its darkness; let us never ventur...
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 hate vain thoughts: but Thy law do I love. The hated and the loved I. The hated. “I hate vain thoughts.” The number of these is legion, the variety all but endless. Vain thoughts may include...
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 hate vain thoughts, literally, "wavering ones I hate," that is, those who are divided between two beliefs, those who waver in their loyalty, not knowing whether to turn to God or to false gods; bu...
2 Corinthians 10:5 ; Isaiah 55:7 ; Jeremiah 4:14 ; Mark 7:21 ; Psalms 119:103 ; Psalms 119:97 ; Psalms 94:11