Psalms 119:86 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ All thy commandments are faithful:i they persecute me wrongfully; help thou me. ”

• Psalms 119:86 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  All thy commandments are faithful - Margin, “faithfulness.” The idea in the Hebrew is that they are worthy to be relied on. They are founded in truth, and they should secure our confidence. Th...

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• Psalms 119:86 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  All thy commandments [are] faithful: they persecute me wrongfully; (e) help thou me. (e) He assures himself that God will deliver his and destroy such as unjustly persecute them.

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• Psalms 119:86 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  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...

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• Psalms 119:86 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  faithful . faithfulness. wrongfully. See note on "perversely", Psalms 119:78 .

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• Psalms 119:86 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  86. All thy commandments are truth. In this verse he again confirms the statement, That, in whatever ways he was afflicted, his mind had not been distracted by various devices, because, trus...

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• Psalms 119:86 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  All thy commandments are faithful: they persecute me wrongfully; help thou me.

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• Psalms 119:86 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  All thy commandments are faithful: they persecute me wrongfully; help thou me. All thy commandments are faithful - literally, faithfulness ( Psalms 119:75 ); have attached to them promises to...

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• Psalms 119:86 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  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...

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• Psalms 119:86 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  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...

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• Psalms 119:86 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  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...

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• Psalms 119:86 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  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...

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• Psalms 119:86 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  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...

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• Psalms 119:86 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  All thy commandments [are] faithful ,.... Or, "faithfulness" x they are made by a faithful God, who is holy, just, and true; they command faithfulness, sincerity, and uprightness; and require men to...

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• Psalms 119:86 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  All thy commandments [are] faithful: they persecute me wrongfully; help thou me. Ver. 86. All thy commandments are faithful ] Heb. faithfulness, that is, they are true, sure, equal, infallible....

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• Psalms 119:86 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  The proud have digged pits for me Have sought to destroy me by deceit and treachery, as well as by violence; which are not after thy law Which pits, that is, which insidious designs against an in...

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• Psalms 119:86 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

        85 The proud have digged pits for me, which are not after thy law.   86 All thy commandments are faithful: they persecute me wrongfully; help thou me.   87 They had almost consumed me upo...

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• Psalms 119:86 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Are faithful; they are in themselves most just and true, and they require justice and faithfulness from men, promising many blessings to those that perform it, and severely forbid all fraud and fal...

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• Psalms 119:86 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  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...

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• Psalms 119:86 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

  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...

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• Psalms 119:86 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  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...

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• Psalms 119:86 - The Biblical Illustrator

  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...

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• Psalms 119:86 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  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...

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• Psalms 119:86 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Caph. The Consolation of God's Word in the Midst of Great Troubles.

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• Psalms 119:86 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Psalms 19:9 ; Jeremiah 18:20 ; Psalms 1:1 ; Psalms 119:78 ; Psalms 35:19 ; Psalms 35:7 ; Psalms 38:19 ; Psalms 59:3 ; Psalms 59:4 ; Psalms 7:1-5 ; Psalms 70:5 ; Romans 7:12

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• Psalms 119:86 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Faithful — Just and true.

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