Psalms 119:116 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Uphold me according unto thy word, that I may live: and let me not be ashamed of my hope. ”

• Psalms 119:116 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  Uphold me - Sustain me in the trials and the temptations of life. Help me to bear afflictions without sinking under them; to meet temptations without yielding to them; to encounter opposition fro...

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• Psalms 119:116 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  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...

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• Psalms 119:116 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  live. See note || on p. 827.

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• Psalms 119:116 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  116. Sustain me by thy word, and I shall live. Many read, According to thy word, so that the letter ב, beth, which signifies in, is taken for the letter כ, caph, which signifies...

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• Psalms 119:116 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Uphold me according unto thy word, that I may live: and let me not be ashamed of my hope. Depart from me - Odi profanum vulgus, etarceo, I abominate the profane, and will have no communion with them....

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• Psalms 119:116 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  Uphold me according unto thy word, that I may live: and let me not be ashamed of my hope. Uphold me according unto thy word, that I may live - Do not let me either be destroyed or seduced by...

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• Psalms 119:116 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  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...

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• Psalms 119:116 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  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...

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• Psalms 119:116 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  “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...

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• Psalms 119:116 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  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...

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• Psalms 119:116 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  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...

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• Psalms 119:116 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Uphold me according unto thy word ,.... In thy ways, that my footsteps slip not; in thine arms, and with the right hand of thy righteousness, from fainting and sinking under difficulties and discour...

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• Psalms 119:116 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Uphold me according unto thy word, that I may live: and let me not be ashamed of my hope. Ver. 116. Uphold me according unto thy word ] The promise is the soul's support. Turn we the palm and not...

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• Psalms 119:116 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Uphold me according to thy word Or hold me up, as he says in the next verse, seeing himself to be not only unable to go on in his duty, by his own strength, but in danger of falling into sin, unles...

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• Psalms 119:116 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

        116 Uphold me according unto thy word, that I may live: and let me not be ashamed of my hope.   117 Hold thou me up, and I shall be safe: and I will have respect unto thy statutes continually...

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• Psalms 119:116 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Or, because of my hope , or confidence in thy promises, of the certainty whereof I have oft made my boast before others.

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• Psalms 119:116 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  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...

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• Psalms 119:116 - Sermon Bible Commentary

  Psalms 119:73 , Psalms 119:116 I. Consider the care of the Creator for the lower creatures of His hand. The lower creatures have instincts given to them by God for their preservation. These in...

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• Psalms 119:116 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

  We will read tonight two of the stanzas which make up the 119 th Psalm, beginning at the 105 th verse. Psalms 119:105 . Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path. God's Word is f...

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• Psalms 119:116 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  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...

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• Psalms 119:116 - The Biblical Illustrator

  Thou art my hiding-place and my shield: I hope in Thy Word. The Guardian and Support of souls I. The guardianship of god enjoyed. “Hiding-place” is a place of protection, a place where the enem...

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• Psalms 119:116 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  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...

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• Psalms 119:116 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Samech. The Need of a Firm Stand for the Truth of God's Word.

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• Psalms 119:116 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Peter 2:6 ; Isaiah 41:10 ; Isaiah 42:1 ; Isaiah 45:17 ; Psalms 25:2 ; Psalms 37:17 ; Psalms 37:24 ; Psalms 41:12 ; Psalms 63:8 ; Psalms 94:18 ; Romans 10:11 ; Romans 5:5 ; Romans 9:32...

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