“ MEM. O how love I thy law! it is my meditation all the day. ”
O how love I thy law! - This commences a new division of the Psalm, indicated by the Hebrew letter Mem ( מ m , “m”). The expression here, “O how love I thy law,” implies intense love - as if a...
MEM. O how love I thy law! it [is] my meditation (a) all the day. (a) He shows that we cannot love God's word unless we exercise ourselves in it and practise it.
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...
97. O how have I loved thy law! Not contented with a simple affirmation, the prophet exclaims, by way of interrogation, that he was inflamed with incredible love to the law of God; and, in p...
DISCOURSE: 708 DAVID’S BOASTING EXPLAINED AND VINDICATED Psalms 119:97-100 . O how love I thy Law! It is my meditation all the day. Thou, through thy commandments, hast made me wiser than mine e...
MEM. O how love I thy law! it is my meditation all the day. O how love I thy law - This is one of the strongest marks of a gracious and pious heart, cast in the mould of obedience. Such love the pr...
O how love I thy law! it is my meditation all the day. O how love I thy law! it is my meditation all the day - ( Psalms 1:2 .) He says so, not to praise his own devotion, but the excellence o...
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...
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...
“Thy Word Is a Lamp, unto My Feet” Psalms 119:97-112 The psalmist cries, O how love I thy law! He then proceeds to say that he has become wiser than his enemies and has more understanding tha...
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...
MEM. Reader! let us listen to these sweet words, as the words of Jesus. Let us beg of God the Holy Ghost to give us grace to feel and know our interest in what he here saith, from our interest in hi...
m, MEM.--The Thirteenth Part . Ver. 97. MEM. O how love I thy law !.... The whole word of God, the preceptive part of it; the commands of the moral law, which are holy, just, and good, and to be l...
MEM. O how love I thy law! it [is] my meditation all the day. Ver. 97. O how love I thy law! ] Such a pang of love he felt as could not otherwise be vented but by a pathetic exclamation; and thi...
MEM. Psalms 119:97 . O how I love thy law! O Lord, thou knowest my love to it is inexpressible: to then I appeal herein against all the censures and calumnies of my enemies to the contrary....
13. MEM. 97 MEM. O how love I thy law! it is my meditation all the day. Here is, 1. David's inexpressible love to the word of God:...
MEM O how love I thy law! O Lord, thou knowest it, and to thee I appeal herein against all the censures and calumnies of mine enemies to the contrary.
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 119:89 . For ever, O LORD, thy word is settled in heaven. It is not a changeable or vanishing thing: «Thy word is settled,» settled for ever, settled «for ever in heaven.» As God changes n...
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...
O how love I Thy law! it is my meditation all the day. Love to the Scriptures I. They are indubitably authenticated and divinely inspired. 1 The concurrent testimony of Jew and Gentile, of frie...
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...
Oh, how love I Thy Law! the entire instruction in God's holy Word, as the revelation of His holy will. It is my meditation all the day; the longer he ponders upon it, the dearer it becomes to him.
Psalms 11:1 ; Deuteronomy 17:19 ; Deuteronomy 6:6-9 ; Joshua 1:8 ; Proverbs 18:1 ; Proverbs 2:10