Psalms 19:8 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ The statutes of the LORD are right, rejoicing the heart: the commandment of the LORD is pure, enlightening the eyes. ”

• Psalms 19:8 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  The statutes of the Lord - The word here rendered statutes properly means mandates, precepts - rules given to anyone to guide him, Psalms 103:18 ; Psalms 111:7 . It refers to the laws of God co...

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• Psalms 19:8 - 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...

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• Psalms 19:8 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  statutes . precepts. Heb pikkudim. Found only in the Psalms, and in the Plural right . righteous: i.e. equitable and just. enlightening . giving light, as the sun ( Genesis 1:15 ; Genesis 1:1...

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• Psalms 19:8 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  8. The statutes of Jehovah are right. The Psalmist at first view may seem to utter a mere common-place sentiment when he calls the statutes of the Lord right. If we, however, more attenti...

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• Psalms 19:8 - 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...

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• Psalms 19:8 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  The statutes of the LORD are right, rejoicing the heart: the commandment of the LORD is pure, enlightening the eyes. The statutes of the Lord - פקודים pikkudim, from פקד pakad, he visited, cared,...

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• Psalms 19:8 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  The statutes of the LORD are right, rejoicing the heart: the commandment of the LORD is pure, enlightening the eyes. The statutes of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart: the commandment of...

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• Psalms 19:8 - 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...

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• Psalms 19:8 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  Right. — Here in its original sense of “straight,” or direct. A fine moral insight suggested this touch. The road of duty, when plain and unmistakable, inspires a sense of gladness, even if it be d...

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• Psalms 19:8 - 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...

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• Psalms 19:8 - 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...

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• Psalms 19:8 - 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...

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• Psalms 19:8 - 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...

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• Psalms 19:8 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

  Psalms 19 Proper Psalm for Christmas Day ( Morning ). Psalms 19-21 = Day 4 ( Morning ).

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• Psalms 19:8 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  The statutes of the Lord [are] right ,.... The word of God may be called "statutes", or "visitations" d because that God will visit, in a way of resentment, such persons as despise its authority, do...

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• Psalms 19:8 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  The statutes of the LORD [are] right, rejoicing the heart: the commandment of the LORD [is] pure, enlightening the eyes. Ver. 8. The statutes of the Lord are right ] As being the issue of the most...

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• Psalms 19:8 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  The statutes of the Lord Another word signifying the same thing with law and testimonies, are right Both in themselves, and in their effect, as guiding men in the ready way to eternal happiness....

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• Psalms 19:8 - 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...

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• Psalms 19:8 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Statutes , another word signifying the same thing with law and testimonies, are right; both in themselves, as being free from crookedness or error; and in their effect, as guiding and directing men...

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• Psalms 19:8 - 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....

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• Psalms 19:8 - 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...

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• Psalms 19:8 - 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...

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• Psalms 19:8 - 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...

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• Psalms 19:8 - 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...

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• Psalms 19:8 - The Biblical Illustrator

  The statutes of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart. Joy in God’s statutes Not content with celebrating the eternal fitness and rectitude of the Divine statutes, the Psalmist recommends the...

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• Psalms 19:8 - 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...

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• Psalms 19:8 - 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...

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• Psalms 19:8 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Deuteronomy 12:11 ; Deuteronomy 12:12 ; Deuteronomy 16:11 ; Deuteronomy 16:14 ; Deuteronomy 4:5 ; Deuteronomy 4:6 ; Exodus 18:16 ; Ezekiel 36:27 ; Galatians 2:19 ; Galatians 3:10-13 ; Gala...

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• Psalms 19:8 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Right — Both in themselves, and in their effect, as guiding men in the ready way to eternal happiness. Rejoicing — By the discoveries of God's love to sinful men, in offers and promises of mercy. C...

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