“ Turn away my reproach which I fear: for thy judgments are good. ”
Turn away my reproach - The reproach which is likely to come upon me from being a professed worshipper of God. In all ages good men have been exposed to this reproach. Which I fear - Which I...
Turn away (e) my reproach which I fear: for thy judgments [are] good. (e) Let me not fall to your dishonour but let my heart still delight in your gracious word.
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...
fear . dread.
39. Take away my reproach. It is not certain to what reproach he alludes. Knowing that many calumniators were on the watch to find occasion for reviling him, should they happen to detect him...
Turn away my reproach which I fear: for thy judgments are good. Turn away my reproach, which I fear - This may be understood of the reproach which a man may meet with in consequence of living a god...
Turn away my reproach which I fear: for thy judgments are good. Turn away my reproach which I fear. The reproach of the enemy makes the suppliant fear that he may come to a bad end at last (c...
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...
My reproach which I fear. — The word for fear is an unusual one, used in Deuteronomy 9:19 ; Deuteronomy 28:60 , for very strong dread. The reproach may be either the disgrace in God’s sight of vi...
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...
Love for God's Commands Psalms 119:33-48 Twice over the psalmist says, “thy commandments which I have loved,” and then proceeds to give the key to perfect love of them in the words, “I will me...
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...
HE. How very beautiful is this portion of the psalm, considered as descriptive of the work of the Holy Ghost. It is his blessed province, and from his great love to the persons of Christ's people, h...
Turn away my reproach which I fear ,.... Either for the sake of religion, which was disagreeable to him; and he might be afraid it would be too heavy for him to bear, and be a temptation to him to f...
Turn away my reproach which I fear: for thy judgments [are] good. Ver. 39. Turn away my reproach ] Cover it, cure it, suffer it not to break forth, to my disgrace among men. For thy judgments a...
Turn away my reproach which I fear For my instability in thy ways; which, in respect to my own weakness, I have great cause to fear; I have longed after thy precepts After a more solid knowledge...
39 Turn away my reproach which I fear: for thy judgments are good. Here, 1. David prays against reproach, as before, Psalms 119:22 Psalms 119:22 . David was conscious to himse...
Turn away my reproach; either, 1. For the shameful disappointment of my hopes and confident boastings concerning the truth and certainty of thy promises; or, 2. For my manifold failings, and pa...
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...
We have here some of the jottings from David's pocket-book, the notes of his experience as recorded in his diary. The whole Psalm is a great casket full of golden rings. They all fit one into the oth...
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...
Turn away my reproach which I fear; for Thy judgments are good. The dreaded and the desired I. What is here dreaded (verse 39). 1. Reproach is of two kinds. (1) The deserved. The man who...
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...
He. The Constancy of the Believer Upheld and Nourished by God's Word.
1 Timothy 3:7 ; 1 Timothy 5:14 ; 2 Samuel 12:14 ; Deuteronomy 4:8 ; Isaiah 26:8 ; Psalms 119:22 ; Psalms 119:31 ; Psalms 39:8 ; Psalms 57:3 ; Revelation 19:2 ; Romans 2:2 ; Titus 19:9 ;...
I fear — For my instability in thy ways; which in respect to my own weakness, I have great cause to fear.