“ Greatp are thy tender mercies, O LORD: quicken me according to thy judgments. ”
Great are thy tender mercies, O Lord - They are many, or multiplied. The word rendered “tender mercies” is the same which occurs in Psalms 40:11 ; Psalms 51:1 ; Psalms 69:16 ; Psalms 79:8 ;...
Great [are] thy tender mercies, O LORD: quicken me according to thy (b) judgments. (b) According to your promise made in the law, which because the wicked lack they have no hope of salvation.
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...
tender mercies . compassions.
156. O Jehovah,! thy tender mercies are many; as if he had said that no offenders are safe but those who betake themselves to the divine mercy. Farther, to encourage himself to approach God...
Great are thy tender mercies, O LORD: quicken me according to thy judgments. Great are thy tender mercies - They are רבים rabbim, multitudes. They extend to all the wretchednesses of all men.
Great are thy tender mercies, O LORD: quicken me according to thy judgments. Quicken me according to thy judgments - ( Psalms 119:149 , note.)
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...
Great [are] thy tender mercies, O Lord ,.... Not his providential mercies only, which are many and undeserved, and constantly repeated; but his special mercies in Christ, which flow from the tendern...
Great [are] thy tender mercies, O LORD: quicken me according to thy judgments. Ver. 156. Great are thy tender mercies, &c. ] Or, many and mother-like. This is great comfort to greatest sinners...
156 Great are thy tender mercies, O L ORD : quicken me according to thy judgments. Here, 1. David admires God's grace: Great are thy tender mercies, O Lord! The goodness of God's...
According to the manner of thy administrations towards thy people, as Psalms 119:149 .
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...
Resh. The Increasing Confidence of the Believer.
1 Chronicles 21:13 ; Isaiah 55:7 ; Isaiah 63:7 ; Psalms 51:1 ; Psalms 86:13 ; Psalms 86:15 ; Psalms 86:5 ; Psalms 119:149