“ This I had, because I kept thy precepts. ”
This I had, because I kept thy precepts - literally, “This was to me;” that is, This has happened to me; this has occurred. This joyful remembrance of thy law in the night of affliction Psalms 1...
(g) This I had, because I kept thy precepts. (g) That is, all these benefits.
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...
This. Supply Ellipsis (App-6) thus: "This [comfort]. had".
56. This was done to me. I doubt not that the prophet, under the term זאת, zoth, comprehends all God’s benefits; but as he comes before God in relation to blessings then being enjoyed by...
This I had, because I kept thy precepts. This I had, because I kept thy precepts - Though thou didst leave us under the power of our enemies, yet thou hast not left us without the consolations of thy...
This I had, &c.— That is, "this sweet composure of mind, this cheerfulness of spirit, under all these afflictions." CHETH.
This I had, because I kept thy precepts. This I had, because I kept thy precepts - "this" good I have had as my reward (namely, that thy statutes are "my songs in my pilgrimage," and that "I...
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...
This I had, because... — Literally, This was to me, &c, i.e., this consoling recollection of the mercies of God, of His covenant grace, was to him, happened, or came to him, in consequence...
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...
This I had, because I kept thy precepts. Either the comfort he had from the word, the pleasure and delight he had in it, being his songs in his pilgrimage, Psalms 119:50 ; see Psalms 119:165 ; or...
This I had, because I kept thy precepts. Ver. 56. This I had ] This comfort, or this remembrance, or this ability to keep thy law. Because I keep thy precepts ] A strange reason, I kept it beca...
Thy statutes have been my songs The matter of my songs, my delight and recreation; in the house of my pilgrimage In this present world, wherein I am a pilgrim, as all my fathers were. I have rem...
55 I have remembered thy name, O L ORD , in the night, and have kept thy law. 56 This I had, because I kept thy precepts. Here is, 1. The converse David had with the word of God; h...
This I had, this comfortable and profitable remembrance and contemplation of thy name and statutes, of which he spoke Psalms 119:54,55 , because I kept thy precepts; which if I had wilfully and...
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 119:55-56 I. The keeping of God's law is promoted by the remembering of God's name. The name of God includes all the attributes of God. (1) If I remember the attributes of God, I must remem...
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 remembered Thy name, O Lord, in the night, and have kept Thy law. Thought It is the glory of man that he can think. We conquer Nature by thought. Thought has stretched out its hand, reac...
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 John 3:19-24 ; Psalms 119:165 ; Psalms 18:18-22
This — This comfortable remembrance.