“ Plead my cause, and deliver me: quicken me according to thy word. ”
Plead my cause ... - Undertake my cause, as an advocate does. See the notes at Psalms 35:1 . Quicken me ... - Give me life. See the notes at Psalms 119:25 .
Plead my cause, and deliver me: quicken me according to thy (a) word. (a) For without God's promise there is no hope of deliverance.
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. Hebrew. ga'al = redeem. See notes on Exodus 6:6 with Exodus 13:13 , Not the same word as in verses: Psalms 119:134 ; Psalms 119:153 ; Psalms 119:170 .
154. Debate thy cause, and redeem me. In this verse David specifics the kind of his affliction, which was the wrongful and harassing treatment which he met with at the hands of evil and unpr...
Plead my cause, and deliver me: quicken me according to thy word. Plead my cause - ריבה ריבי ribah ribi. "Be my Advocate in my suit." Contend for us against the Babylonians, and bring us out of our b...
Plead my cause, and deliver me: quicken me according to thy word. Plead my cause - ( Psalms 35:1 .) So David in respect to his enemy, Saul ( 1 Samuel 24:15 ). Israel at last shall confidently...
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...
Plead my cause, and deliver me ,.... This shows that his affliction was chiefly from men, wicked, ungodly, and unreasonable men; such as were Saul and his courtiers, and a whole ungodly nation: his...
Plead my cause, and deliver me: quicken me according to thy word. Ver. 154. Plead my cause, and deliver me ] Litiga litigium meum. Be both mine advocate and my redeemer.
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...
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...
deliver Hebrew, "goel," Redemption (Kinsman type). ( See Scofield) - ( Isaiah 59:20 ).
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...
Resh. The Increasing Confidence of the Believer.
1 John 2:1 ; 1 Samuel 24:15 ; Jeremiah 11:20 ; Jeremiah 50:34 ; Jeremiah 51:36 ; Job 5:8 ; Micah 7:9 ; Proverbs 22:23 ; Psalms 35:1 ; Psalms 43:1 ; Psalms 119:25 ; Psalms 119:40