Psalms 19:7 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ The lawb of the LORD is perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise the simple. ”

Psalms 19:7 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The law of the Lord - Margin, doctrine. The word used here - תורה tôrâh - is that which is commonly employed in the Old Testament with reference to the law of God, and is usually rendered “...
Psalms 19:7 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

The (f) law of the LORD [is] perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of the LORD [is] sure, making wise the simple. (f) Though the creatures cannot serve, yet this should be sufficient to lead u...
Psalms 19:7 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

XIX. A. Psalms 19:1-6 . The Revelation of God in Nature. A fragment of a longer poem. Day and night are pictured as living beings who hand on the tradition of God's creative act from age to age (s...
Psalms 19:7 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

law. Note the synthetic parallelism of the second half of this Psalm, which compares the written words in the Scripture with the words written in the heavens, and preserved in the names of the sign...
Psalms 19:7 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

7. The law of the Lord. Here the second part of the psalm commences. After having shown that the creatures, although they do not speak, nevertheless serve as instructors to all mankind, and...
Psalms 19:7 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

DISCOURSE: 520 EXCELLENCY OF GOD’S WORD Psalms 19:7-9 . The law of the Lord is perfect, converting the soul; the testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple: the statutes of the Lord a...
Psalms 19:7 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

The law of the LORD is perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise the simple. The law of the Lord - And here are two books of Divine Revelation: 1. The visible...
Psalms 19:7 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

The law of the Lord is perfect, converting the soul— { Restoring / Refreshing } the soul. The connection seems to be this: From the mighty scene and prospect of nature in the former verses, the...
Psalms 19:7 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

The law of the LORD is perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise the simple. The law of the Lord is perfect, converting the soul. How is this to be reconcil...
Psalms 19:7 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

This Ps. falls into two well-marked divisions. Psalms 19:1-6 describe the glory of God ( El ) as seen in the heavenly bodies, especially the sun, and are thus parallel to Psalms 8 ; Psalms 19:7-1...
Psalms 19:7 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

The law. — The ear catches even in the English the change of rhythm, which is as marked as the change of subject. Instead of the free lyric movement of the preceding verse, we come suddenly upon th...
Psalms 19:7 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Psalms 19:1-14 Is this originally one psalm or bits of two, pieced together to suggest a comparison between the two sources of knowledge of God, which the authors did not dream of? The affirmative...
Psalms 19:7 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

the Works and the Word of God Psalms 19:1-14 This is the “Psalm of the Two Books”-Nature and Scripture. If Psalms 8:1-9 were written at night, Psalms 19:1-14 was surely written by day. In...
Psalms 19:7 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

The burden of this psalm is the twofold revelation of Jehovah. He is revealed in Nature and in law. Yet in Nature Jehovah is revealed as God and not by those especial qualities suggested by the great...
Psalms 19:7 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Here the sacred writer makes a beautiful transition from the works of nature to contemplate the works of grace. Having celebrated the praises of Jehovah in his outward courts, he now enters the inner...
Psalms 19:7 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

Psalms 19 Proper Psalm for Christmas Day ( Morning ). Psalms 19-21 = Day 4 ( Morning ).
Psalms 19:7 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

The law of the Lord [is] perfect ,.... By which is meant, not the law of Moses, or the ten commandments, but the "doctrine" of the Lord; as the word תורה, "torah", signifies, even the whole word of...
Psalms 19:7 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

The law of the LORD [is] perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of the LORD [is] sure, making wise the simple. Ver. 7. The law of the Lord is perfect ] Or, doctrine; the whole word of God, co...
Psalms 19:7 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The law of the Lord The doctrine delivered to his church, whether by Moses, or by other prophets and holy men of God after him: for the title law is not only given to the ten commandments, or the...
Psalms 19:7 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Excellency of the Scriptures. 7 The law of the L ORD is perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of the L ORD...
Psalms 19:7 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

The law of the Lord, i.e. the doctrine delivered by God to his church, whether by Moses or by other prophets, and holy men of God after him; for the title of law is given not only to the ten comm...
Psalms 19:7 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

God Speaks Through His Word And Covenant ( Psalms 19:7-11 ). Psalms 19:7 ‘ The instruction (law) of YHWH is perfect, restoring the soul, The testimony of YHWH is sure, making wise the simple....
Psalms 19:7 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

INTRODUCTION “This psalm instructs its readers in the glory and goodness of God; first, by directing their contemplation to the structure of the heavens, to the course of the sun, and to the kindly...
Psalms 19:7 - Sermon Bible Commentary

Psalms 19:7-9 There are here six different names by which the law of Jehovah is called, and six different statements regarding it, corresponding to these different names. I. "The law of the Lord...
Psalms 19:7 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

This Psalm has the same subject as Psalms 119:1 . Both of them are full of praise of God's Word. God has written two books for us to read,-the volume of the Creation and the volume of the Sacred Scr...
Psalms 19:7 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Psalms 19:4 . Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. The LXX, φθογγος, phthoggos. Vulgate, sonus, their sound; the music of their voice. The...
Psalms 19:7 - The Biblical Illustrator

The law of the Lord is perfect. The best book I would not have you forget the true and proper mission of the Bible,--to reveal saving truth. But it is well to remember that, even as a classic,...
Psalms 19:7 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION THE nineteenth psalm is one of meditative praise. The psalmist, looking abroad over the whole world, finds two main subjects for his eulogy—first, the glorious fabric of the materia...
Psalms 19:7 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

A Prophecy of the Gospel. Luther says of this psalm that it is a prophecy of the Gospel as it was intended to go forth into all the world, as wide as the heavens extend, and to be proclaimed and t...
Psalms 19:7 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 John 5:9-12 ; 2 Samuel 23:5 ; 2 Timothy 1:8 ; 2 Timothy 2:19 ; 2 Timothy 3:15-17 ; Acts 10:43 ; Colossians 3:16 ; Deuteronomy 17:18-20 ; Deuteronomy 32:4 ; Deuteronomy 6:6-9 ; Hebrews 6:...
Psalms 19:7 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

The law — The doctrine delivered to his church, whether by Moses, or by other prophets. Having discoursed hitherto of the glory of God shining forth in, the visible heavens, he now proceeds to anot...

Psalms 19:7 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Psalms 19:7 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Psalms 19:7 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Psalms 19:7 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Psalms 19:7 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Psalms 19:7 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

Psalms 19:7 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Psalms 19:7 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Psalms 19:7 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Psalms 19:7 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Psalms 19:7 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Psalms 19:7 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Psalms 19:7 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Psalms 19:7 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Psalms 19:7 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Psalms 19:7 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

Psalms 19:7 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Psalms 19:7 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Psalms 19:7 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Psalms 19:7 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Psalms 19:7 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Psalms 19:7 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Psalms 19:7 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Psalms 19:7 - Sermon Bible Commentary

Psalms 19:7 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Psalms 19:7 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Psalms 19:7 - The Biblical Illustrator

Psalms 19:7 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Psalms 19:7 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Psalms 19:7 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 19:7 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes