“ Remove from me reproach and contempt; for I have kept thy testimonies. ”
Remove from me reproach and contempt - Show me thy favor, and let me not suffer in the estimation of mankind on account of my religion. Let me not be exposed to malicious charges; to accusations...
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...
reproach and contempt. Compare Psalms 123:3 ; Psalms 123:4 , confirming Hezekiah's suggested authorship.
22. Remove from me reproach This verse may admit of two senses: Let the children of God walk as circumspectly as it is possible for them to do, they will not escape being liable to many slan...
Remove from me reproach and contempt; for I have kept thy testimonies. Remove from me reproach and contempt - Of these the captives in Babylon had a more than ordinary load.
Remove from me reproach and contempt; for I have kept thy testimonies. Remove from me reproach and contempt - Hebrew, gal ( H1540 ); 'roll away from me reproach'-namely, such as Israel b...
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...
Remove. — Some render “roll,” with allusion to Joshua 5:9 . But it is more probably the same word as that rendered “open ” in Psalms 119:18 (see Note) which may have for object the covering tak...
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...
a Prayer for Understanding Psalms 119:17-32 These verses are full of yearning and unsatisfied desire. The soul breaks for longing, cleaves to the dust, and melts for heaviness. We are reminded...
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...
GIMEL. Here are again many very gracious and fervent breathings after divine favor, which need nothing explanatory by way of comment. Some of them very highly correspond with what might be supposed...
Remove from me reproach and contempt ,.... Or, "roll [it] from me" u. It lay as a load, as a heavy burden upon him, which pressed him sore; and he therefore desired ease from it, being probably in a...
Remove from me reproach and contempt; for I have kept thy testimonies. Ver. 22. Remove from me reproach and contempt ] Cast upon me by those proud haughty scorners, Psalms 119:21 , and that for n...
Remove from me reproach Which I suffer, and that unjustly, for thy sake; for I have kept thy testimonies And therefore I am innocent of those things for which they censure and reproach me: or, an...
22 Remove from me reproach and contempt; for I have kept thy testimonies. Here, 1. David prays against the reproach and contempt of men, that they might be removed, or (as the word...
Reproach, which I suffer unjustly and for thy sake, as he elsewhere complains. I have kept thy testimonies, and therefore I am innocent from those crimes for which they censure and reproach me. O...
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 119:9 . Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way? by taking heed thereto according to thy word. «Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way?» A vital and solemn question. His way...
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...
Remove from me reproach and contempt; for I have kept Thy testimonies. Social contempt and conscious rectitude I. Social contempt (verse 22). 1. Is a thing to be deprecated. 2. Is a thing...
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...
Gimel. Prayer For Enlightenment Unto A Godly Life.
1 Peter 2:20 ; 1 Peter 3:16 ; 1 Peter 3:17 ; 1 Peter 4:14-16 ; 1 Samuel 25:10 ; 1 Samuel 25:39 ; 2 Samuel 16:7 ; 2 Samuel 16:8 ; Hebrews 13:13 ; Job 16:20 ; Job 19:2 ; Job 19:3 ; Psalms...
The Wonderful Word Psalms 119:1-24 INTRODUCTORY WORDS When we hold the Bible in our hands we are holding a Book that is distinct from any and every other book the world has ever known. 1. It...