Psalms 119:23 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Princes also did sit and speak against me: but thy servant did meditate in thy statutes. ”

Psalms 119:23 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Princes also did sit and speak against me - This would have been applicable to David many times in his life, but it was also applicable to many others, and there is nothing in the language which...
Psalms 119:23 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

(d) Princes also did sit [and] speak against me: [but] thy servant did meditate in thy statutes. (d) When the powers of the world gave false sentence against me, your word was a guide and counsellor...
Psalms 119:23 - 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...
Psalms 119:23 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Princes also did sit and speak against me: but thy servant did meditate in thy statutes. Princes also did sit - It is very likely that the nobles of Babylon did often, by wicked misrepresentation...
Psalms 119:23 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Princes also did sit and speak— Though princes are continually consulting against me, thy servant will make thy ordinances his theme: Psalms 119:24 . For thy testimonies are my delight, thy sta...
Psalms 119:23 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Princes also did sit and speak against me: but thy servant did meditate in thy statutes. Princes also did sit (and) speak against me: (but) thy servant did meditate in thy statutes - ( Psalms...
Psalms 119:23 - 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...
Psalms 119:23 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Speak. — Comp. Psalms 50:20 for the same implied sense in this verb. This verse reads as if Israel, and not a mere individual, were the subject of the psalms.
Psalms 119:23 - 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...
Psalms 119:23 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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...
Psalms 119:23 - 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...
Psalms 119:23 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

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...
Psalms 119:23 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Princes also did sit [and] speak against me ,.... The princes in the court of Saul, who suggested to him that David sought his hurt; the princes of his own court, Absalom, his own son, a prince of t...
Psalms 119:23 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Princes also did sit [and] speak against me: [but] thy servant did meditate in thy statutes. Ver. 23. Princes also did sit, &c. ] By public invectives; such as were those of our Henry VIII, an...
Psalms 119:23 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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...
Psalms 119:23 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

23 Princes also did sit and speak against me: but thy servant did meditate in thy statutes. See here, 1. How David was abused even by great men, who should have known better his...
Psalms 119:23 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Did sit and speak; did speak against me continually, (for sitting notes continuance,) and when they sat upon their seats of judicature, and when they sat together in companies, entertaining one ano...
Psalms 119:23 - 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...
Psalms 119:23 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

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...
Psalms 119:23 - 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...
Psalms 119:23 - The Biblical Illustrator

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...
Psalms 119:23 - 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...
Psalms 119:23 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Gimel. Prayer For Enlightenment Unto A Godly Life.
Psalms 119:23 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Samuel 20:31 ; 1 Samuel 22:7-13 ; Luke 22:66 ; Luke 23:1 ; Luke 23:10 ; Luke 23:11 ; Luke 23:2 ; Psalms 2:1 ; Psalms 2:2 ; Psalms 119:15
Psalms 119:23 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

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...

Psalms 119:23 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Psalms 119:23 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Psalms 119:23 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Psalms 119:23 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Psalms 119:23 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Psalms 119:23 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Psalms 119:23 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Psalms 119:23 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Psalms 119:23 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Psalms 119:23 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Psalms 119:23 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Psalms 119:23 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Psalms 119:23 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Psalms 119:23 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Psalms 119:23 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Psalms 119:23 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Psalms 119:23 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Psalms 119:23 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Psalms 119:23 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Psalms 119:23 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Psalms 119:23 - The Biblical Illustrator

Psalms 119:23 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Psalms 119:23 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Psalms 119:23 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 119:23 - Wells of Living Water Commentary