“ O that my ways were directed to keep thy statutes! ”
O that my ways were directed ... - Indicating the desire of the pious heart. That desire - a prevailing, constant, uniform desire - is to keep the law of God. It is the aim of the life; it is the...
(c) O that my ways were directed to keep thy statutes! (c) David acknowledges his imperfection, desiring God to reform it, that his life may be conformable to God's 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...
statutes. The ninth in order of the ten words. See App-73.
5 I wish that my ways may be directed The original word כון, kun, is sometimes rendered to establish, and, accordingly, it may seem as if the prophet were soliciting for himself the v...
DISCOURSE: 695 PRACTICAL RELIGION ENFORCED Psalms 119:4-6 . Thou hast commanded us to keep thy precepts diligently: O that my ways were directed to keep thy statutes! Then shall I not he ashamed...
O that my ways were directed to keep thy statutes! O that my ways were directed - "I wish that my way may be confirmed to keep thy statutes." Without thee I can do nothing; my soul is unstable and fi...
O that my ways— The word here principally signifies, the motions and inclinations of the mind and heart, upon which all our actions depend. When I have respect unto, in the next verse, is rendere...
O that my ways were directed to keep thy statutes! O that my ways were directed - `confirmed,' (Hengstenberg: cf. Psalms 78:37 ; Psalms 51:10 , margin.) Prepared, directed aright, and made...
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...
Directed... — So LXX. and Vulg. The He brew is perhaps slightly different, established, or settled. (See Proverbs 4:26 .)
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...
God's Word an Inner Power Psalms 119:1-16 This long and noble psalm is devoted to the praise of God's Word, which is mentioned in every verse but one, Psalms 119:122 . Probably if we were to s...
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...
Here again, we cannot possibly conceive that the word statutes hath a reference to the statutes of Moses. The law (saith an apostle) having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of...
O that my ways were directed to keep thy statutes !] The psalmist, sensible of his own inability, as every good man is, to keep the commands of God, prays for grace, direction, and assistance in it;...
O that my ways were directed to keep thy statutes! Ver. 5. O that my ways were directed, &c. ] David can wish well to that perfection which he cannot attain unto. The whole life of a good Chri...
Thou hast commanded us , &c. Nor is it strange that thy people do so exactly and diligently observe thy precepts, because they are commanded so to do by thee, their sovereign Lord. O that my wa...
4 Thou hast commanded us to keep thy precepts diligently. 5 O that my ways were directed to keep thy statutes! 6 Then shall I not be ashamed, when I have respect unto all thy commandmen...
My desires answer thy commands. Directed, or established , to wit, by thy grace and Holy Spirit; for the direction of God's word he had already.
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...
The first eight verses of this Psalm, in the Hebrew, begin with the letter A, and the second eight begin with the letter B. The whole Psalm is the good man's alphabet; the Holy Spirit condescended to...
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...
Blessed are the undefiled in the way, who walk in the law of the Lord. Moral law I. There is a Divine moral law for the regulation of moral life. The Creator has given a law to every creature H...
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...
The Christian's Golden ABC of the Praise, Power, and Value of God's Word. This beautiful psalm, whose writer is not known, is divided into twenty-two sections of eight verses each. All the verses...
2 Thessalonians 3:5 ; Psalms 51:10 ; Hebrews 13:21 ; Jeremiah 31:33 ; Romans 7:22-24
The Wonderful Word Psalms 119:1-24 INTRODUCTORY WORDS When we hold the Bible in our hands we are holding a Book that is distinct from any and every other book the world has ever known. 1. It...