“ Teach me good judgment and knowledge: for I have believed thy commandments. ”
Teach me good judgment - The word here rendered “judgment” means, properly, “taste,” that power by which we determine the quality of things as sweet, bitter, sour, etc. Then it is applied to the...
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...
66. Teach me goodness of taste and acknowledge After having confessed that he had found, by experience, the faithfulness of God to his promises, David here adds a request similar to what is...
Teach me good judgment and knowledge: for I have believed thy commandments. Teach me good judgment and knowledge - טוב טעם ודעי למדני tob taam vedaath lammnedeni. Teach me (to have) a good taste and...
Teach me good judgment— The Hebrew words properly signify, a goodness of taste, with relation to the palate; and it is only figuratively, and by way of analogy, that they signify a goodness of judg...
Teach me good judgment and knowledge: for I have believed thy commandments. Teach me good judgment and knowledge. "Judgment" ( ta`am ( H2940 )) - literally, taste. So experimental underst...
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...
TETH. (66) Good judgment. — More exactly, good taste. Here, however, in a moral, not æsthetic sense. Perhaps tact or delicate moral perception represents it. We may compare St. Paul’s use...
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...
Profiting from Affliction Psalms 119:65-80 Before I was afflicted, I went astray; it is good for me that I have been afflicted; thou in faithfulness hast afflicted me . Here is the far-off in...
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...
TETH. As the first verse of the foregoing portion proved that Jesus was the speaker; so the last verse of this portion as plainly points to the same. None but the ever-blessed Jesus had such testimo...
Teach me good judgment and knowledge ,.... Or, "a good taste" p: of the Lord himself, how good and gracious he is; of his grace and love, which is better than wine; of his word and the truths of it,...
Teach me good judgment and knowledge: for I have believed thy commandments. Ver. 66. Teach me good judgment ] Heb. good taste, for the soul also hath her senses; and as the mouth tasteth meat, so...
TETH. Psalms 119:66 . Teach me good judgment Whereby I may rightly discern between truth and falsehood, good and evil; that so I may be kept from those errors in which many are involved, and...
9. TETH. 65 Thou hast dealt well with thy servant, O L ORD , according unto thy word. 66 Teach me good judgment and knowledge: for I have bel...
Good judgment; whereby I may rightly discern between truth and falsehood, good and evil, between the mind of God and my own or others inventions; that so I may be kept from those mistakes and error...
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 119:64-67 . The earth, O LORD, is full of thy mercy: teach me thy statutes. Thou hast dealt well with thy servant, O LORD, according unto thy word. Teach me good judgment and knowledge: for...
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...
Thou hast dealt with Thy servant, O Lord. A good man I. The testimony of a good man. 1. Concerning God. His kind treatment and faithful promise. 2. Concerning affliction. II. The praye...
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...
Teth. The Realization that God's Humiliation of Man is Salutary.
1 Kings 3:28 ; 1 Kings 3:9 ; Isaiah 11:2-4 ; James 3:13-18 ; Judges 3:15 ; Matthew 13:11 ; Nehemiah 9:13 ; Nehemiah 9:14 ; Philippians 1:9 ; Proverbs 2:1-9 ; Proverbs 8:20 ; Psalms 119:12...
Judgment — Whereby I may rightly discern between truth and falsehood. Knowledge — A spiritual experimental knowledge.