Psalms 119:159 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Consider how I love thy precepts: quicken me, O LORD, according to thy lovingkindness. ”

• Psalms 119:159 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  Consider how I love thy precepts - Search me. Behold the evidence of my attachment to thy law. This is the confident appeal of one who was conscious that he was truly attached to God; that he rea...

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• Psalms 119:159 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  Consider how I (d) love thy precepts: quicken me, O LORD, according to thy lovingkindness. (d) It is a sure sign of our adoption, when we love the Law of God.

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• Psalms 119:159 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  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...

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• Psalms 119:159 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  159. Behold, O Jehovah how I have loved thy commandments. What I have state before must be remembered — that when the saints speak of their own piety before God they are not chargeable with...

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• Psalms 119:159 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Consider how I love thy precepts: quicken me, O LORD, according to thy lovingkindness.

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• Psalms 119:159 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  Consider how I love thy precepts: quicken me, O LORD, according to thy lovingkindness. Consider how I love thy precepts. Translate (the Hebrew being the same as in Psalms 119:158 ), 'Behold...

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• Psalms 119:159 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  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...

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• Psalms 119:159 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  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...

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• Psalms 119:159 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  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...

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• Psalms 119:159 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  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...

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• Psalms 119:159 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  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...

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• Psalms 119:159 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Consider how I love thy precepts ,.... How ardently and affectionately, how cordially and sincerely, Psalms 119:127 ; and that was the reason why he was so grieved and distressed when wicked men tr...

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• Psalms 119:159 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Consider how I love thy precepts: quicken me, O LORD, according to thy lovingkindness. Ver. 159. Consider how I love thy precepts ] And love facilitateth duty, helping us over all the hardship of...

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• Psalms 119:159 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Many are my persecutors David, being a public person, had many enemies. In this he was a type both of Christ and of his church. The enemies, the persecutors of both, are many, implacable and unwear...

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• Psalms 119:159 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

        159 Consider how I love thy precepts: quicken me, O L ORD , according to thy lovingkindness.       Here is, 1. David's appeal to God concerning his love to his precepts: "Lord, thou knowes...

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• Psalms 119:159 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  I love thy precepts; which was the cause of my grief for their violation of them.

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• Psalms 119:159 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  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...

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• Psalms 119:159 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

  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...

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• Psalms 119:159 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  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...

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• Psalms 119:159 - The Biblical Illustrator

  Many are my persecutors and mine enemies. The trials and traits of piety I. The trials of piety. They are twofold--objective and subjective. 1. Objective. “Many are my persecutors and enemie...

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• Psalms 119:159 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  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...

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• Psalms 119:159 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Resh. The Increasing Confidence of the Believer.

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• Psalms 119:159 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  2 Kings 20:3 ; Nehemiah 13:22 ; Nehemiah 5:19 ; Psalms 119:153 ; Psalms 119:88 ; Psalms 119:97

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