“ For I am become like a bottle in the smoke; yet do I not forget thy statutes. ”
For I am become like a bottle in the smoke - Bottles in the East were commonly made of skins. See the notes at Matthew 9:17 . Such “bottles,” hanging in tents where the smoke had little opportun...
For I am become like a (b) bottle in the smoke; [yet] do I not forget thy statutes. (b) Like a skin bottle or bladder that is parched in the smoke.
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...
bottle . wine-skin: i.e. black and shrivelled. Compare Job 30:30 .
83. For I have been as a bottle in the smoke. (426) The particle כי, ki, translated for, might also, not improperly, be resolved into the adverb of time, when; so that we might rea...
For I am become like a bottle in the smoke; yet do I not forget thy statutes. Like a bottle in the smoke - In the eastern countries their bottles are made of skins; one of these hung in the smoke m...
For I am become like a bottle in the smoke; yet do I not forget thy statutes. For I am become like a bottle in the smoke - my skin is become parched and shrivelled like an eastern wine bottle...
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...
A bottle in the smoke. — The insertion of yet by our translators shows that they understood this as a figure of abject misery. The wine-skin would, of course, shrivel, if hung above a fire, and w...
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...
the Word That Stands Fast Psalms 119:81-96 They persecute wrongfully; they dig pits; they have almost consumed; they have waited to destroy; but thy Word abides steadfast. The driven soul flees...
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...
CAPH. The opening of this portion is also very beautiful, in reference to the Lord Jesus, who waited with longing expectation for the time of his being manifested unto Israel. Hence we find him, in...
For I am become like a bottle in the smoke ,.... Like a bottle made of the skins of beasts, as was usual in those times and countries: hence we read of old and new bottles, and of their rending, Ju...
For I am become like a bottle in the smoke; [yet] do I not forget thy statutes. Ver. 83. For I am become like a bottle in the smoke ] Shrivelled, wrinkled, withered, dried up. My body by long suff...
CAPH. Psalms 119:81 . My soul fainteth for thy salvation With longing desire, earnest expectation, and hope deferred. Mine eyes fail With looking hither and thither, and to thee for help....
83 For I am become like a bottle in the smoke; yet do I not forget thy statutes. David begs God would make haste to comfort him, 1. Because his affliction was great, and therefore...
In the smoke; hung up in a smoking chimney. My natural moisture is dried and burnt up; I am withered, and deformed, and despised, and my case grows worse and worse every day.
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...
In this Psalm we have, as it were, notes from David's pocket book. Psalms 119:73 . Thy hands have made me and fashioned me: give me understanding, that I may learn thy commandments. This is a ve...
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...
My soul fainteth for Thy salvation: but I hope in Thy Word. Painful soul moods and their antidotes I. Painful moods of soul. 1. Painful yearning ( Psalms 119:81-83 ). (1) The general obje...
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...
Caph. The Consolation of God's Word in the Midst of Great Troubles.
Job 30:30 ; Psalms 102:3 ; Psalms 102:4 ; Psalms 22:15 ; Psalms 119:16 ; Psalms 119:176 ; Psalms 119:61
Bottle — A leathern bottle. My natural moisture is dryed and burnt up.