“ I have chosen the way of truth: thy judgments have I laid before me. ”
I have chosen the way of truth - Among all the paths of life I have selected this. I prefer this. I desire to walk in this. Religion is, wherever it exists, a matter of preference or choice; and...
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...
laid . set.
30. I have chosen the way of truth. In this and the following verse he affirms that he was so disposed as to desire nothing more than to follow righteousness and truth. It is, therefore, wit...
DISCOURSE: 699 CHRISTIAN EXPERIENCE Psalms 119:30-32 . I have chosen the way of truth: thy judgments have I laid before me. I have stuck unto thy testimonies: O Lord, put me not to shame! I will...
I have chosen the way of truth: thy judgments have I laid before me . I have chosen the way of truth - And that I may continue in its "remove from me the way of lying." See above.
I have chosen the way of truth: thy judgments have I laid before me. I have chosen the way of truth; thy judgments have I laid (before me) - I have laid them down as the rule of my conduct. "...
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 119:1-176 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 chosen the way of truth ,.... Christ, who is the way and the truth, the true way to God and to eternal happiness; and to choose him is to choose the good part, which shall never be taken away...
I have chosen the way of truth: thy judgments have I laid [before me]. Ver. 30. I have chosen the way of truth ] I am fully bent against lying, and am resolved to speak truth; though I have done o...
Remove from me the way of lying Hebrew, דרךְ שׁקר, dereech sheker , the way of falsehood or deceit , of guile or dissimulation. Let me neither practise it myself, nor countenance, nor be deceiv...
30 I have chosen the way of truth: thy judgments have I laid before me. 31 I have stuck unto thy testimonies: O L ORD , put me not to shame. 32 I will run the way of thy commandments, w...
I have chosen the way of truth, to wit, thy word or law, for my portion, and the rule of my worship and whole life. Laid before me; or, set before me, as the phrase is fully expressed, Psalms 1...
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 chosen the way of truth: Thy judgments have I laid before me. The commendable past and the desirable future in life I. The commendable in the past. 1. The best choice has been made. T...
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 Peter 2:2 ; 2 John 1:4 ; Deuteronomy 11:18-20 ; John 3:19-21 ; John 8:45 ; Joshua 24:15 ; Luke 10:42 ; Proverbs 1:29 ; Psalms 119:111 ; Psalms 119:173 ; Psalms 119:24 ; Psalms 119:29 ;...
Laid — Or, set before me as a mark to aim at; as a rule to direct me.