“ It is time for thee, LORD, to work: for they have made void thy law. ”
It is time for thee, Lord, to work - literally, “Time to do for Yahweh;” and the construction might be either that it is time to do (something) for Yahweh; or, that it is time for Yahweh himself...
[It is] (c) time for [thee], LORD, to work: [for] they have made void thy law. (c) The prophet shows that when the wicked have brought all things to confusion, and God's word to utter contempt, then...
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...
to work: i.e. to intervene.
126. It is time for thee, O Jehovah! to be doing. It being the object of the Prophet to imprecate upon the impious and wicked the vengeance which they have deserved, he says, that the fit ti...
It is time for thee , LORD, to work: for they have made void thy law. It is time for thee, Lord, to work - The time is fulfilled in which thou hast promised deliverance to thy people. They - the...
It is time for thee, Lord, to work— Or as some render it, It is time to perform to the Lord. Or, it is time to execute judgment. Bishop Hare. The phrase as it stands in our version, means the s...
It is time for thee, LORD, to work: for they have made void thy law. It is time for thee, Lord, to work; (for) they have made void thy law. "To work;" or, literally, 'to do (it)'-namely, to v...
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...
They have made void thy law. — Some treat the verse as parenthetical, but is it not that the irreligion of the wicked makes the Law even more dear to the psalmist? What they reject is to him pricel...
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...
AIN. How sweetly do these words become Christ! but who, except Christ, could ever use them? One might be led to conclude, from the very many similar examples we meet with in the book of Psalms, that...
[It is] time for [thee], Lord, to work ,.... To send the Messiah, to work righteousness; to fulfil the law, and vindicate the honour of it, broken by men. It was always a notion of the Jews that the...
Psalms 119:126 [It is] time for [thee], LORD, to work: [for] they have made void thy law. Ver. 126. It is time for thee, Lord, to work ] For else what will become of thy great name, and of thy p...
It is time It is high time, or a fit season; for thee, Lord, to work To put forth thy power for the vindication of thy own name and cause, and for the restraint and punishment of evildoers. For...
126 It is time for thee, L ORD , to work: for they have made void thy law. Here is, 1. A complaint of the daring impiety of the wicked. David, having in himself a holy indignat...
It is time; it is high time, or a fit season. To work ; to put forth thy power for the vindication of thy own name and cause, and for the restraint and punishment of evildoers. They, to wit, min...
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 119:126 The text brings before us: I. A melancholy fact: "Men have made void Thy law." This might at first view seem impossible, as if it were the defeat of Omnipotence itself by the creat...
Psalms 119:1-19 . I hate vain thoughts: but thy law do I love. Presumptuous thoughts, erroneous thoughts, wicked thoughts, foolish thoughts,-all three David hated. A good man ought to be a good h...
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...
Deal with Thy servant according unto Thy mercy. In these words we have a prayer I. For merciful treatment. 1. Not according to Thy justice. This would involve our ruin. 2. Not according...
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...
Ain. The Proper Estimation of God's Word in the Midst of Oppression.
Deuteronomy 32:36 ; Genesis 22:10 ; Genesis 22:11 ; Genesis 22:14 ; Habakkuk 1:4 ; Isaiah 42:14 ; Jeremiah 18:23 ; Jeremiah 8:8 ; Malachi 2:8 ; Malachi 3:17 ; Matthew 15:6 ; Psalms 102:13...
To work — To put forth thy power for the restraint of evil — doers. They — The wicked. Made void — Or, abrogated thy law, have openly cast off its authority.