“ LORD, I have hoped for thy salvation, and done thy commandments. ”
Lord, I have hoped for thy salvation - As a prevailing habit or principle in my life. I have looked to thee for deliverance in the time of danger; I have looked to thee for salvation in the world...
LORD, I have (d) hoped for thy salvation, and done thy commandments. (d) He shows that we must first have faith before we can work and please God.
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...
166 O Jehovah! I have waited for thy salvation. It is not without cause that the Prophet often repeats this sentence, which is in all men’s mouths, there being nothing easier than to ascribe...
LORD, I have hoped for thy salvation, and done thy commandments. Lord, I have hoped - Thou hast promised deliverance, and I have expected it on the ground of that promise.
LORD, I have hoped for thy salvation, and done thy commandments. Lord, I have hoped for thy salvation, and done thy commandments - ( Psalms 119:174 .) So Jacob on his death-bed ( Genesis 49:1...
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...
Jehovah Inspires Continual Praise Psalms 119:161-170 What a noble conclusion we reach in these closing stanzas! I rejoice at thy word; thy law do I love; seven times a day do I praise thee; le...
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...
SCHIN. Still prosecuting the same subject of suffering, here are the same petitions lodged before the throne. The apostle to the Hebrews was commissioned by the Holy Ghost to teach the church some v...
Lord, I have hoped for thy salvation ,.... Either temporal salvation and deliverance from enemies, and from afflictions, which God had promised, and therefore he had reason to hope for; or spiritual...
LORD, I have hoped for thy salvation, and done thy commandments. Ver. 166. Lord, I have hoped for thy salvation ] This saying he borrowed from good old Jacob, Genesis 49:18 And done thy comma...
166 L ORD , I have hoped for thy salvation, and done thy commandments. Here is the whole duty of man; for we are taught, 1. To keep our eye upon God's favour as our end: " Lord, I ha...
Thus performing the condition which thou hast required, I justly and confidently hope for thy mercy promised.
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...
Lord, I have hoped for Thy salvation, and done Thy commandments. A justifiable hope There is a true hope and a false hope, a justifiable and an unjustifiable hope--the words direct us to the fo...
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...
Schin (and Sin ) The Believer's Fellowship with God in Prayer.
1 John 2:3 ; 1 John 2:4 ; Genesis 49:18 ; John 7:17 ; Psalms 24:3-5 ; Psalms 4:5 ; Psalms 50:23 ; Psalms 119:174 ; Psalms 119:81 ; Psalms 130:5-7