“ Thou art near, O LORD; and all thy commandments are truth. ”
Thou art near, O Lord - God was present with him; he was ready to hear his cry; he was at hand to save him. Compare Psalms 145:18 . The psalmist had the assurance, springing from deep feeling, a...
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...
151. Thou, O Jehovah! art near. He encourages himself from the consolatory consideration, that God, when he sees his own people sore pressed, comes forward, seasonably to afford them succor;...
Thou art near, O LORD; and all thy commandments are truth. Thou art near - As they are near to destroy, so art thou near to save. When the enemy comes in as a flood, the Spirit of the Lord lifts...
Thou art near, O LORD; and all thy commandments are truth. Thou art near, O Lord; and all thy commandments (are) truth - ( Psalms 119:142 .) My enemies draw near ( Psalms 119:150 ), but thou...
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...
Near. — Notice the antithesis. They, the wicked, are near with their temptation to sin and their hindrances to virtue. Thou art near with the aid and support of Thy law.
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...
Thou [art] near, O Lord ,.... This was the comfort of the psalmist, that though his enemies drew nigh with a mischievous design upon him, yet his God was also near, and nearer than they; he was near...
Thou [art] near, O LORD; and all thy commandments [are] truth. Ver. 151. Thou art near, O Lord ] To counterwork and control the enemy; as also to safeguard and support thy people.
Thou art near, O Lord Namely, to me. Thou art as ready and present to succour me, as they are to molest me. And all thy commandments are truth Considered with the promises and threatenings which...
150 They draw nigh that follow after mischief: they are far from thy law. 151 Thou art near, O L ORD ; and all thy commandments are truth. Here is, I. The apprehension David wa...
Thou art near to me. Thou art as ready and present to succour me as they are to molest me. Thy commandments; considered with the promises and threatenings, which are frequently annexed to them. O...
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...
Thou art near, O Lord. The nearness of God I. God is near us in the hour of human desertion. We are never in reality alone, never in reality deserted. On our right hand and on our left the Invi...
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.
Deuteronomy 4:7 ; Matthew 1:23 ; Psalms 139:2 ; Psalms 145:18 ; Psalms 46:1 ; Psalms 75:1 ; Psalms 119:138 ; Psalms 119:142