“ Thy testimonies also are my delight and my counsellors.c ”
Thy testimonies also are my delight - See the notes at Psalms 119:16 . He found his main happiness in the word of God. And my counselors - Margin, as in Hebrew, “men of my counsel.” He sough...
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...
also . nevertheless. See Psalms 129:2 . my counsellors . men (Hebrew. 'ish, App-14) of my counsel.
24. Also thy testimonies are my delight The particle גם, gam, connects this with the preceding verse. To adhere unflinchingly to our purpose, when the world takes up an unjust opinion of...
Thy testimonies also are my delight and my counsellers. Thy testimonies also are - my counsellors - אנשי עצתי anshey atsathi, "the men of my counsel." I sit with them; and I consider every testim...
Thy testimonies also are my delight and my counsellors. Thy testimonies also (are) my delight, (and) my counselors ( Psalms 119:77 ; Psalms 119:92 ) - in opposition to the 'princes sitting'...
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...
Counsellors. — See margin. Instead of taking the princes of Psalms 119:23 into counsel. he takes God’s testimonies.
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...
Thy testimonies also [are] my delight ,.... Or "delights" x; exceeding delightful to me. The whole of Scripture is so to a good man; he delights in the law of God, after the inward man; the Gospel i...
Thy testimonies also [are] my delight [and] my counsellors. Ver. 24. Thy testimonies are my delight ] In mediis crucibus; to them I run as to my cordial; they are my pleasure and pastime. An...
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...
24 Thy testimonies also are my delight and my counsellors. Here David explains his meditating in God's statutes ( Psalms 119:23 Psalms 119:23 ), which was of such use to him wh...
My delight; my chief comfort under all their censures and persecutions. My counsellors, to teach me how to carry myself under them.
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.
2 Timothy 3:15-17 ; Colossians 3:16 ; Deuteronomy 17:18-20 ; Isaiah 8:20 ; Jeremiah 19:11 ; Jeremiah 6:10 ; Job 27:10 ; Joshua 1:8 ; Proverbs 6:20-23
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...