“ I have declared my ways, and thou heardest me: teach me thy statutes. ”
I have declared my ways - That is, I have declared or recounted them to thee. I have made mention of my cares, troubles, anxieties, purposes. I have laid them all before thee, reserving or keepin...
I have (b) declared my ways, and thou heardest me: teach me thy statutes. (b) I have confessed my offences and now depend wholly on you.
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...
26. I have declared my ways. In the first part of this verse he affirms he had prayed sincerely, and had not imitated the proud, who, trusting to their own wisdom, fortitude, and opulence, m...
I have declared my ways, and thou heardest me: teach me thy statutes. I have declared my ways - ספרתי sipparti, "I have numbered my ways," I have searched them out; I have investigated them. And that...
I have declared my ways— I recount over my ways when thou afflictest me. Mudge. Affliction made him reflect on his ways, and gave him sufficient reason to pray to God to teach him his ordinances....
I have declared my ways, and thou heardest me: teach me thy statutes. I have declared my ways, and thou heardest me - namely, in my prayer under affliction ( Psalms 118:5 ; Psalms 118:21 )....
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...
I have declared. — Or, recounted. My ways. — Or, as we should say, my courses, my past life, including, as the context shows, confession of sins and prayer for pardon.
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...
I have declared my ways ,.... That is, to the Lord; either the ways he had chose and desired to walk in, and not wander from, and therefore entreated help and assistance, guidance and direction, in...
I have declared my ways, and thou heardest me: teach me thy statutes. Ver. 26. I have declared my ways ] My sins and troubles; those thou hast remitted, and these thou hast remedied. Teach me t...
I have declared my ways My manner of life, my sins, my temptations, my sorrows, my wants, dangers, fears, cares, and concerns; my designs, undertakings, and pursuits: I have spread them all before...
26 I have declared my ways, and thou heardest me: teach me thy statutes. 27 Make me to understand the way of thy precepts: so shall I talk of thy wondrous works. We have here, 1. T...
My ways; my sins, in way of confession; and all my cares, and fears, and troubles, and concerns, in way of humble petition to thee, as appears from God's answer.
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...
I have declared my ways, and Thou heartiest me: teach me Thy statutes. A man of God alone with God The first lesson for man is, to know his God; the second is, to know himself; and as the unbel...
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...
Daleth. The Grace of Being Confirmed in the Truth.
1 Kings 8:36 ; Proverbs 28:13 ; Psalms 119:106 ; Psalms 119:12 ; Psalms 143:8-10 ; Psalms 25:4 ; Psalms 25:8 ; Psalms 25:9 ; Psalms 27:11 ; Psalms 32:5 ; Psalms 38:18 ; Psalms 51:1-19 ;...
My ways — My sins; and all my cares, and fears, and troubles.