“ This is my comfort in my affliction: for thy word hath quickened me. ”
This is my comfort in my affliction - Compare Romans 15:4 . The word here rendered “comfort” occurs only here and in Job 6:10 . The obvious meaning is, that his only consolation in his afflicti...
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...
comfort. The word occurs (as. noun) elsewhere only in Job 6:10 . quickened me . kept me alive. See note on Psalms 119:25 . proud . insolent (like Rabshakeh).
This is my comfort in my affliction: for thy word hath quickened me. This is my comfort - While enduring our harsh captivity, we anticipated our enlargement; and thy word of promise was the means o...
This is my comfort in my affliction: for thy word hath quickened me. This is my comfort in my affliction: for thy word hath quickened me - thy word of promise of salvation has given me life,...
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...
ZAIN. (50) Comfort. — As in Job 6:10 , where the same noun occurs, its only other use. We might render, “This is my comfort, that thy word quickeneth me.”
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...
Comforted by God's Judgments Psalms 119:49-64 Rays of comfort begin to steal into the psalmist's heart. Thou hast caused me to hope; this is my comfort in my affliction; thy statutes have been...
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...
ZAIN. While we contemplate the ever-blessed Jesus thus hanging upon the promises of the Father, we may in him, and through him, humbly adopt the same language, and remind God our Father of all his c...
COMFORT AND LIFE ‘The same is my comfort in my trouble: for Thy word hath quickened me.’ Psalms 119:50 (Prayer Book Version) When we study the Psalms with a religious purpose, we would know...
This [is] my comfort in my affliction ,.... David had his afflictions, and so has every good man; none are without; it is the will and pleasure of God that so it should be; and many are their afflic...
This [is] my comfort in my affliction: for thy word hath quickened me. Ver. 50. This is my comfort ] The promises yield strong consolation. Philosophical comforts are of little force, as Plato ack...
ZAIN. Psalms 119:49 . Remember the word That is, thy promises; upon which thou hast caused me to hope By thy command requiring it of me, and by thy grace working it in me. This Namely, th...
50 This is my comfort in my affliction: for thy word hath quickened me. Here is David's experience of benefit by the word. 1. As a means of his sanctification: " Thy word has quick...
This, to wit, thy word, as is evident both from the foregoing and following words. Hath quickened me; hath preserved my life in manifold dangers, and hath revived and cheered my spirit.
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...
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...
This is my comfort in my affliction: for Thy Word hath quickened me. Comfort and quickening I. In our affliction, the word of God quickens to comfort. 1. By leading us to God, who is able to...
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...
Zain. Patience in Persecution and Crosses.
1 Peter 1:3 ; 1 Peter 2:2 ; Ezekiel 37:10 ; Hebrews 12:11 ; Hebrews 12:12 ; Hebrews 6:17-19 ; James 1:18 ; Jeremiah 15:16 ; John 6:63 ; Psalms 27:13 ; Psalms 28:7 ; Psalms 42:11 ; Psalms...