Psalms 119:27 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Make me to understand the way of thy precepts: so shall I talk of thy wondrous works. ”

• Psalms 119:27 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  Make me to understand ... - See the notes at Psalms 119:18 . So shall I talk of thy wondrous works - The things in thy works - thy providential dealings - that are wondrous. That is, with a...

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• Psalms 119:27 - 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...

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• Psalms 119:27 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  talk . meditate.

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• Psalms 119:27 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Make me to understand the way of thy precepts: so shall I talk of thy wondrous works.

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• Psalms 119:27 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  Make me to understand the way of thy precepts: so shall I talk of thy wondrous works. Make me to understand the way of thy precepts: so shall I talk of thy wondrous works - ( Psalms 145:5-6 .)...

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• Psalms 119:27 - 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...

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• Psalms 119:27 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  Make me to understand. — Only the Israelite truly loyal to the covenant was considered worthy to enquire into the marvels of the dealings of God. (See Psalms 106:2 , Note.) Perhaps we might extend...

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• Psalms 119:27 - 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...

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• Psalms 119:27 - 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...

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• Psalms 119:27 - 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...

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• Psalms 119:27 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  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...

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• Psalms 119:27 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Make me to understand the way of thy precepts ,.... The meaning of them, to have a more comprehensive, clear, and distinct knowledge of them; and to be led into the way they direct unto, and walk th...

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• Psalms 119:27 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Make me to understand the way of thy precepts: so shall I talk of thy wondrous works. Ver. 27. Make me to understand, &c. ] Give me a mouth and wisdom, that I may not talk at random of thy wor...

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• Psalms 119:27 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  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...

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• Psalms 119:27 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

        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...

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• Psalms 119:27 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Make me to understand, more thoroughly and more practically, the way of thy precepts; either, 1. The full mind and meaning of thy precepts, which are exceeding broad, as he saith afterwards; or,...

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• Psalms 119:27 - 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...

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• Psalms 119:27 - 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...

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• Psalms 119:27 - 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...

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• Psalms 119:27 - The Biblical Illustrator

  Make me to understand the way of Thy precepts; so shall I talk of Thy wondrous works. The student’s prayer I. The student’s prayer. I hope that we are all students in the school of Christ--all...

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• Psalms 119:27 - 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...

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• Psalms 119:27 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Daleth. The Grace of Being Confirmed in the Truth.

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• Psalms 119:27 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Acts 2:11 ; Exodus 13:14 ; Exodus 13:15 ; Joshua 4:6 ; Joshua 4:7 ; Psalms 1:1 ; Psalms 71:17 ; Psalms 78:4 ; Revelation 15:3

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• Psalms 119:27 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Understand — More throughly.

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