“ DALETH. My soul cleaveth unto the dust: quicken thou me according to thy word. ”
My soul cleaveth unto the dust - This commences a new division of the psalm, in which each verse begins with the “fourth” letter of the Hebrew alphabet - Daleth ( ד d ), equivalent to the Eng...
DALETH. My soul cleaveth unto the (a) dust: quicken thou me according to thy word. (a) That is, it is almost brought to the grave and without your word I cannot live.
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...
dust. Put by Figure of speech Metonymy (of Adjunct), App-6, for the dead, as in Psalms 30:9 ; Ecclesiastes 12:7 . Quicken... me . Give me life, or keep me alive. The first of nine prayers for...
25. My soul cleaveth to the dust (409) He means that he had no more hope of life than if he had been shut up in the tomb; and this must be carefully attended to, that we my not become impat...
DALETH. My soul cleaveth unto the dust: quicken thou me according to thy word. My soul cleaveth unto the dust - It would be best to translate נפשי naphshi, my life; and then cleaving to the dust may...
My soul cleaveth unto the dust: quicken thou me according to thy word. My soul cleaveth unto the dust: quicken thou me according to thy word. The first clause is from Psalms 44:25 ; cf. Psa...
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...
DALETH. (25) Cleaveth to the dust. — The same figure is used in Psalms 22:29 ; Psalms 44:25 , in the former of death, in the latter of deep degradation and dishonour. The prayer, “make me liv...
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...
DALETH. These verses compose the fourth part of this divine Psalm. Whether David, the supposed writer of it, thus complains in himself; or whether it means the Son of David, who in another part decl...
d DALETH.--The Fourth Part . Ver. 25. DALETH. My soul cleaveth unto the dust ,.... Either to the dust of death, having the sentence of it; being almost in despair of life, upon the brink of the gr...
DALETH. My soul cleaveth unto the dust: quicken thou me according to thy word. Ver. 25. My soul cleaveth unto the dust ] Those princes, my persecutors (Saul's counsellors), have brought me to deat...
DALETH. Psalms 119:25 . My soul cleaveth unto the dust That is, as some understand it, I am in danger of present death: I am like one laid in the grave; so this phrase is used Psalms 22:15 ....
4. DALETH. 25 My soul cleaveth unto the dust: quicken thou me according to thy word. Here is, I. David's complaint. We should have tho...
DALETH My soul cleaveth unto the dust; I am in evident danger of present death, through the rage and power of mine enemies; I am like one laid in the grave, without all hopes of recovery. So this p...
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 119:25 These words express, with great intensity of humiliation, a consciousness which is universal among all sincere Christians I mean, the power of the world and of the body over the soul...
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...
My soul cleaveth unto the dust: quicken Thou me according to Thy Word. Cleaving to the dust Several verses of this long psalm begin with the same words: “My soul melteth away from very heavines...
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...
My soul cleaveth unto the dust, is often in great spiritual depression; quicken Thou me, daily filling him with new life and strength, according to Thy Word, it being the privilege of the believe...
2 Samuel 7:27-29 ; Colossians 143:11 ; Colossians 3:2 ; Colossians 71:20 ; Colossians 80:18 ; Deuteronomy 30:6 ; Isaiah 65:25 ; Matthew 16:23 ; Philippians 3:19 ; Psalms 22:15 ; Psalms 44:...
The dust — I am in danger of present death: I am like one laid in the grave. Quicken — Preserve my life, or raise me out of the dust. Word — According to thy promise.