“ Therefore I love thy commandments above gold; yea, above fine gold. ”
Therefore I love thy commandments ... - The more people break them Psalms 119:126 , the more I see their value; the more precious they are to me. The fact that they make thy law void, and that e...
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...
127. And therefore I have loved thy statutes above gold. This verse, I have no doubt, is connected with the preceding; for otherwise the illative particle therefore would be without meani...
Therefore I love thy commandments above gold; yea, above fine gold. Therefore I love thy commandments - I see thou wilt do all things well. I will trust in thee. Above gold - מזהב mizzahab, more tha...
Therefore I love thy commandments above gold; yea, above fine gold. Therefore I love thy commandments above gold, yea, above fine gold - ( Psalms 19:10 .) "Therefore" - namely, because of the...
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...
“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...
Therefore I love thy commandments ,.... Because he was the Lord's servant, as Aben Ezra; or rather because the wicked made void the law. His love was the more inflamed and increased towards it by th...
Therefore I love thy commandments above gold; yea, above fine gold. Ver. 127. Therefore I love thy commandments ] I like them the better because they slight them, and prize that way the more they...
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...
127 Therefore I love thy commandments above gold; yea, above fine gold. 128 Therefore I esteem all thy precepts concerning all things to be right; and I hate every false way. ...
Partly, because it is one evidence of their excellency, that they are disliked by the vilest of men; partly, out of a just indignation and opposition against my sworn enemies; and partly, because the...
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 119:1-19 . 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...
It is time for Thee, Lord, to work: for they have made void Thy law. “Time for Thee to work” The psalmist was surrounded, as would appear, by widespread defection from God’s law. But instead of...
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.
Ephesians 3:8 ; Matthew 13:45 ; Matthew 13:46 ; Proverbs 16:16 ; Proverbs 3:13-18 ; Proverbs 8:11 ; Psalms 119:72 ; Psalms 19:10
Therefore — Because the general apostacy of others makes this duty more necessary.