“ It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes. ”
It is good for me that I have been afflicted - See the notes at Psalms 119:67 . Whatever may have been the form of the affliction, it was good for me. The design was benevolent; the result has b...
[It is] (d) good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes. (d) He confesses that before he was chastened he was rebellious as man by nature is.
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...
It is. See note on Psalms 119:67 . good . right, or fitting.
71. It has been good for me that I was afflicted. He here confirms the sentiment which we have previously considered — that it was profitable to him to be subdued by God’s chastisements, tha...
DISCOURSE: 706 THE BENEFIT OF AFFLICTION Psalms 119:71 . It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes . DAVID had “been afflicted from his youth up” — — — and w...
It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes. It is good for me that I have been afflicted - See on Psalms 119:67 (note).
It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes. It is good for me that I have been afflicted - ( Hebrews 12:10 ; John 15:2 ; Job 5:6 : cf. Psalms 119:67 ; P...
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...
It is good... — See Psalms 119:67 . Probably the result of discipline on the nation is intended, though the “sweet uses of adversity” were long ago a truism of moralists. See Æsch., Agam., 172:...
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...
THE DISCIPLINE OF PAIN ‘It is good for me that I have been in trouble: that I may learn Thy statutes.’ Psalms 119:71 (Prayer Book Version) It is scarcely surprising if the mystery of pain ha...
[It is] good for me that I have been afflicted ,.... The good and profit of which he had observed before; Psalms 119:67 . The following end being also answered thereby, that I might learn thy sta...
Psalms 119:71 [It is] good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes. Ver. 71. It is good for me that I have been afflicted ] And thereby humbled; for else the fruit of...
It is good for me Necessary and very beneficial; that I have been afflicted He repeats what, in effect, he said before, ( Psalms 119:67 ,) partly to intimate the certainty and importance of this...
71 It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes. See here, 1. That it has been the lot of the best saints to be afflicted. The proud and the wicked...
Good; necessary, and greatly beneficial. He repeats what in effect he said before, Psalms 119:67 , partly to intimate the certainty and importance of this truth, and partly because it is a great...
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 119:71 Times of political decadence are times of spiritual growth. It is out of the inner experience of hidden lives, in ages when statesmen saw little hope, that such priceless contributio...
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...
The proud have forged a lie against me. The slanderer, the corrupt, the pious I. The tongue of the slanderer. Slander is-- 1. Malicious. Its inspiration is envy, jealousy, or revenge. 2....
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 Corinthians 11:32 ; Hebrews 12:10 ; Hebrews 12:11 ; Isaiah 27:9 ; Psalms 119:67 ; Psalms 94:12 ; Psalms 94:13