“ The law of thy mouth is better unto me than thousands of gold and silver. ”
The law of thy mouth - The law which proceeds out of thy mouth, or which thou hast spoken. Is better unto me - The Hebrew is, “Good to me is the law of thy mouth above thousands of gold and s...
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...
gold and silver. Put by Figure of speech Metonymy (of Cause), App-6, for coins made from these metals. Jod. This is the small letter referred to in Matthew 5:18 .
The law of thy mouth is better unto me than thousands of gold and silver. The law of thy mouth is better - Who can say this? Who prefers the law of his God, the Christ that bought him, and the heav...
The law of thy mouth is better unto me than thousands of gold and silver. The law of thy mouth is better unto me than thousands of gold and silver - ( Psalms 119:127 ; Psalms 19:10 .) Rabbi...
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...
Better unto me — i.e. , better for me. Thousands of. — We must supply shekels or pieces.
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 law of thy mouth [is] better unto me than thousands of gold and silver. The word of God, the doctrines contained in it; which, coming out of the mouth of God, and spoken by him, carries in it w...
The law of thy mouth [is] better unto me than thousands of gold and silver. Ver. 72. The law of thy mouth is better unto me, &c. ] For what is all this trash to that true treasure, those livel...
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...
72 The law of thy mouth is better unto me than thousands of gold and silver. This is a reason why David reckoned that when by his afflictions he learned God's statutes, an the prof...
Not only thy promises, but even thy precepts, which are so unpleasant and hard to ungodly men, to me they are more desirable and more needful and profitable, because they do not only give me abundant...
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 119:72 This is a very hard thing to believe. We are to prove that the Bible is a better thing than heaps of money taken by themselves. The Bible can give you better things than money can ev...
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 law of Thy mouth is better unto me than thousands of gold and silver. The Bible better than money I. Because it gives us better food. It is well designated the “word of life,” because by it...
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.
Psalms 19:10 ; Matthew 13:44-46 ; Proverbs 16:16 ; Proverbs 3:14 ; Proverbs 3:15 ; Proverbs 8:10 ; Proverbs 8:11 ; Proverbs 8:19