“ The bandsg of the wicked have robbed me: but I have not forgotten thy law. ”
The bands of the wicked - Margin, “companies.” The Hebrew word properly means a cord, a rope; then a snare, gin, net; then, a band or a company of men. The reference is to some time in the life o...
The bands of the wicked have (c) robbed me: [but] I have not forgotten thy law. (c) They have gone about to draw me into their company.
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...
robbed . surrounded. Compare Sennacherib's investment of Hezekiah. See App-67.
61. The cords of the wicked have caught hold of me. Those who translate חבלי , cheblei, by sorrows, bring out no natural meaning, and perplex themselves as well as wrest the passage. T...
The bands of the wicked have robbed me: but I have not forgotten thy law. The bands of the wicked have robbed me - חבלי chebley, the cables, cords, or snares of the wicked. They have hunted us like...
The bands of the wicked, &c.— The troops, &c. "I have been beset with troops of wicked men, who stripped me of all I had." Houbigant, after the LXX and Vulgate, reads, The cords or sna...
The bands of the wicked have robbed me: but I have not forgotten thy law. The bands of the wicked have robbed me: but I have not forgotten thy law. So Kimchi takes the verb from a Chaldee roo...
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...
The bands... — Rather, cords of the wicked surrounded me. (See Psalms 18:5-6 .) So all ancient versions except the Targum.
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...
CHETH. This eighth part of this lovely Psalm opens most beautifully, in which we clearly behold Jesus as the speaker. The royal Prophet, under the Spirit's influence (as Peter was commissioned to ex...
The bands of the wicked have robbed me ,.... Very probably Saul and his ministers seized on his effects, when he fled from him; and the Amalekites plundered him of all his substance, when they took...
The bands of the wicked have robbed me: [but] I have not forgotten thy law. Ver. 61. The bands of the wicked have robbed me ] In these late stripping times many a poor man's whole life's settings...
I thought on my ways I seriously considered both my former conduct, and my duty in all my future actions; and turned my feet unto thy testimonies And finding my feet had too often swerved from th...
61 The bands of the wicked have robbed me: but I have not forgotten thy law. Here is, 1. The malice of David's enemies against him. They were wicked men, who hated him for his godl...
Robbed me; or, made a prey of me ; done me many injuries for my respect to thy law.
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...
I thought on my ways, and turned my feet unto Thy testimonies. A godly life I. The way into a godly life. “I thought.” Wonderful act is this; an act which no creature on earth bug man can perfo...
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...
1 Samuel 24:9-11 ; 1 Samuel 26:9-11 ; 1 Samuel 30:3-5 ; Hosea 6:9 ; Job 1:17 ; Proverbs 24:29 ; Psalms 119:176 ; Psalms 119:95 ; Psalms 3:1 ; Romans 12:17-21
Robbed — Done me many injuries, for my respect to thy law.