“ Mine eyes prevent the night watches, that I might meditate in thy word. ”
Mine eyes prevent the night watches - Luther renders this, “I wake up early.” The Hebrew word means a “watch” - a part of the night, so called from military watches, or a dividing of the night to...
Mine eyes (b) prevent the [night] watches, that I might meditate in thy word. (b) He was more earnest in the study of God's word, than they who kept the watch were in their charge.
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...
prevent . anticipate, or forestall. watches. See App-51.
148. My eyes have prevented the night watchers. (21) The Psalmist here intimates, that he was more sedulously intent on meditating upon the law of God than watchmen of the night were to kee...
DISCOURSE: 712 DAVID’S DESIRE TO SERVE GOD Psalms 119:145-148 . I cried with my whole heart; Hear me, O Lord: I will keep thy statutes. I cried unto thee; save me, and I shall keep thy testimoni...
Mine eyes prevent the night watches, that I might meditate in thy word. Mine eyes prevent - קדמו kiddemu, "go before the watches." Before the watchman proclaims the hour, I am awake, meditating on...
Mine eyes prevent the night-watches— The Jews anciently divided the night into three watches, which began at what we now call six of the clock in the evening, and consisted each of four hours: the...
Mine eyes prevent the night watches, that I might meditate in thy word. Mine eyes prevent the night watches - Mine eyes are already awake before the night-watches are past (Maurer). 'The nigh...
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...
the Joy of Communion with God Psalms 119:145-160 There is great eagerness in the psalmist's prayerfulness. He calls with his whole heart; he awakes before the dawn and continues long after the...
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...
KOPH. These verses give us an interesting view of Jesus, and are descriptive of some of those conflicts, under which he was constrained to lift up his voice to God his Father, with strong cryings an...
Mine eyes prevent the [night] watches ,.... The Targum is, "the morning and evening watches.'' There were three of them; Kimchi interprets it of the second and third; the meaning is, that the psal...
Mine eyes prevent the [night] watches, that I might meditate in thy word. Ver. 148. Mine eyes prevent the night watches ] By this verse and the former it appeareth that he spent whole nights in pr...
KOPH. Psalms 119:147 . I prevented the dawning of the morning Hebrew, בנשׁ Š, the twilight , namely, of the morning. In this sense this word is used 1 Samuel 30:17 . Mine eyes prevent the...
147 I prevented the dawning of the morning, and cried: I hoped in thy word. 148 Mine eyes prevent the night watches, that I might meditate in thy word. David goes on here to rela...
The night watches, Heb. the watches ; which were kept only by night. And these watches were then three, as hath been more than once observed. And this is not to be understood of the first watch, w...
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 119:137 . Righteous art thou, O LORD, and upright are thy judgments. It is well to be able to say this when you are being tried, when the hand of God lies heavy upon you; it is hard to kic...
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...
Mine eyes prevent the night watches, that I might meditate in Thy Word. The inexhaustibleness of the Bible There is something very surprising in the fact--but that it is a fact admits of no deb...
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...
Koph. Constant Prayer for Faithfulness over against Opposition.
Lamentations 2:19 ; Luke 6:12 ; Psalms 119:62 ; Psalms 139:17 ; Psalms 139:18 ; Psalms 63:1 ; Psalms 63:6
Watches — The middle watch, which was set in the middle of the night; and the morning watch, which was set some hours before the dawning of the day.