“ RESH. Consider mine affliction, and deliver me: for I do not forget thy law. ”
Consider mine affliction ... - This commences a new division of the psalm, indicated by the Hebrew letter Resh ( ר r ), corresponding to our “r.” The prayer here is, that God would look upon...
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...
deliver. Twenty-five Hebrew words so rendered. Here, halaz = rescue (with. gentle hand); not the same word as in verses: Psalms 119:134 ; Psalms 119:154 ; Psalms 119:170 .
153. Behold my affliction and rescue me. The Psalmist teaches by his own example that those who are devoted to the service and fear of God, must not be discouraged though they are not reward...
RESH. Consider mine affliction, and deliver me: for I do not forget thy law. Consider mine affliction - See mine addiction or humiliation: but the eye of the Lord affects his heart; and therefore he...
Consider mine affliction, and deliver me: for I do not forget thy law. Consider mine affliction, and deliver me; for I do not forget thy law - ( Lamentations 5:1 .)
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...
RESH. The same cries of soul are continued through this portion as in the former; and we may, without any forced construction of the words, consider what is here said as peculiarly applicable to the...
r, RESH.--The Twentieth Part . Ver. 153. RESH. Consider mine affliction, and deliver me ,.... Or, "look upon mine affliction" e; as in Psalms 25:18 . The Lord seems as if he did not, when he does...
RESH. Consider mine affliction, and deliver me: for I do not forget thy law. Ver. 153. Consider mine affliction, and deliver me ] Vide commiserationes oculis, look upon it, and let thine eye aff...
20. RESH. 153 Consider mine affliction, and deliver me: for I do not forget thy law. 154 Plead my cause, and deliver me: quicken me according...
RESH Ver. 153. No text from Poole on this verse.
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 119:145 . I cried with my whole heart; hear me. O LORD: I will keep thy statutes. It is sweet to look back upon our prayers, if those prayers were uttered with our whole heart, for it is n...
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...
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...
Consider mine affliction, taking careful note of its severity, and deliver me; for I do not forget Thy Law, and he sets up his childlike obedience as a reason why God should regard his prayer favor...
Exodus 3:7 ; Exodus 3:8 ; Lamentations 2:20 ; Lamentations 5:1 ; Nehemiah 9:32 ; Psalms 119:159 ; Psalms 13:3 ; Psalms 13:4 ; Psalms 25:19 ; Psalms 9:13