“ Behold, I have longed after thy precepts: quicken me in thy righteousness. ”
Behold, I have longed after thy precepts - I have earnestly desired them. See the notes at Psalms 119:20 . Quicken me in thy righteousness - Make me to live; to live in obedience to thy righ...
Behold, I have longed after thy precepts: (f) quicken me in thy righteousness. (f) Give me strength to continue in your word even to the end.
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...
in: or by. righteousness. Hebrew. zedakah. See App-73.
40. Behold, I have a desire to thy precepts This is a repetition of what he declared a little before, with regard to his pious affection, and his love of righteousness; and that nothing was...
Behold, I have longed after thy precepts: quicken me in thy righteousness. Behold, I have longed - Thou searchest the heart; thou knowest that I have long desired thy salvation; thou seest that this...
Behold, I have longed after thy precepts: quicken me in thy righteousness. Behold, I have longed after thy precepts: quicken me in thy righteousness - according to thy righteousness, whereby...
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...
Quicken me in thy righteousness — i.e. , Let the sense of thy eternal justice give me vigour and life. Or the thought may be of the invigorating influence of a complete surrender to a righteous la...
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...
Behold, I have longed after thy precepts ,.... After a greater degree of knowledge of them, and an opportunity of hearing them explained and enforced, and of yielding obedience to them; see Psalms...
Behold, I have longed after thy precepts: quicken me in thy righteousness. Ver. 40. Behold, I have longed after thy precepts ] This he could boldly and safely say to God, offering himself to his t...
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...
40 Behold, I have longed after thy precepts: quicken me in thy righteousness. Here, 1. David professes the ardent affection he had to the word of God: " I have longed after thy prece...
After thy precepts; after a more solid knowledge and constant performance of thy precepts. Quicken me; do thou preserve and maintain both my natural and spiritual life. In thy righteousness; ac...
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 119:33 . Teach me, O Lord, the way of thy statutes; The psalmist is constantly talking about «the way.» We have that expression in the 27 th verse, then in the 29 th, the 30 th, and the 3...
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 Corinthians 15:45 ; 2 Corinthians 7:1 ; 3 John 1:2 ; Ephesians 2:5 ; Galatians 5:17 ; John 10:10 ; John 5:21 ; Mark 9:24 ; Matthew 26:41 ; Philippians 3:13 ; Philippians 3:14 ; Psalms 1...
Longed — After a more solid knowledge and constant performance of them. In — According to thy faithfulness.