Psalms 19:9 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ The fear of the LORD is clean, enduring for ever: the judgments of the LORD are truec and righteous altogether. ”

Psalms 19:9 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The fear of the Lord - The word rendered fear in this place - יראה yir'âh - means properly fear, terror, Jonah 1:10 ; then, reverence, or holy fear, Psalms 2:11 ; Psalms 5:7 ; and hence,...
Psalms 19:9 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

The fear of the LORD [is] clean, enduring for ever: the judgments of the LORD [are] (g) true [and] righteous (h) altogether. (g) So that all man's inventions and intentions are lies. (h) Everyone w...
Psalms 19:9 - 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 19:9 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

fear . reverence. clean . cleansing (especially Levitically). Compare Leviticus 16:30 ; Numbers 8:7 ; Numbers 8:21 . Ezekiel 36:33 , &c. Hebrew. taher. judgments . judicial requirements...
Psalms 19:9 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

9. The fear of Jehovah is clean. By the fear of God we are here to understand the way in which God is to be served; and therefore it is taken in an active sense for the doctrine which pre...
Psalms 19:9 - 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 19:9 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

The fear of the LORD is clean, enduring for ever: the judgments of the LORD are true and righteous altogether. The fear of the Lord - יראה yirah, from ירא yara, to fear, to venerate; often put...
Psalms 19:9 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

The fear of the LORD is clean, enduring for ever: the judgments of the LORD are true and righteous altogether. The fear of the Lord is clean, enduring for ever. "The fear of the Lord" is show...
Psalms 19:9 - 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 19:9 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

The fear of the Lord. — Here plainly not a moral quality of the individual, but, as in Proverbs 15:33 (comp. Deuteronomy 17:19 ), religion, the service demanded by the Law, which, being “ pure...
Psalms 19:9 - 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 19:9 - 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 19:9 - 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 19:9 - 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 19:9 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

Psalms 19 Proper Psalm for Christmas Day ( Morning ). Psalms 19-21 = Day 4 ( Morning ).
Psalms 19:9 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

The fear of the Lord [is] clean ,.... Still the word of God is intended, which teaches men to fear the Lord; gives a full account of the worship of God, which is often meant by the fear of God; it i...
Psalms 19:9 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

The fear of the LORD [is] clean, enduring for ever: the judgments of the LORD [are] true [and] righteous altogether. Ver. 9. The fear of the Lord is clean ] That is, the doctrine which teacheth th...
Psalms 19:9 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The fear of the Lord True religion and godliness, prescribed in the word, reigning in the heart and practised in the life; or rather, that word or law itself is intended, and called the fear of th...
Psalms 19:9 - 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 19:9 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

The fear of the Lord; by which he understands not the grace of God's fear, as this phrase is commonly taken; nor the whole worship of God, as it is taken Psalms 34:9,11 Mt 15:9 ; but the law and...
Psalms 19:9 - 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 19:9 - 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 19:9 - Scofield Reference Notes

fear of the Lord The "fear of the Lord," a phrase of the Old Testament piety, meaning reverential trust, with hatred of evil.
Psalms 19:9 - 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 19:9 - 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 19:9 - 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 19:9 - The Biblical Illustrator

The fear of the Lord is clean, enduring forever. The Word of God enduring forever We are to consider the abiding and habitual effect of the Word of God upon believing hearts. And this effect is...
Psalms 19:9 - 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 19:9 - 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 19:9 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Kings 18:12 ; 1 Kings 18:3 ; 1 Kings 18:4 ; 1 Samuel 12:24 ; Acts 10:22 ; Deuteronomy 4:8 ; Exodus 21:1 ; Genesis 22:12 ; Genesis 42:18 ; Isaiah 26:8 ; Nehemiah 5:15 ; Proverbs 8:13 ;...
Psalms 19:9 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

The fear — The law and word of God, because it is both the object and the rule, and the cause of holy fear. Clean — Sincere, not adulterated with any mixture. Constant and unchangeable, the same fo...

Psalms 19:9 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Psalms 19:9 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Psalms 19:9 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Psalms 19:9 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Psalms 19:9 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Psalms 19:9 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

Psalms 19:9 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Psalms 19:9 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Psalms 19:9 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Psalms 19:9 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Psalms 19:9 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Psalms 19:9 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Psalms 19:9 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Psalms 19:9 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Psalms 19:9 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

Psalms 19:9 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Psalms 19:9 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Psalms 19:9 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Psalms 19:9 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Psalms 19:9 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Psalms 19:9 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Psalms 19:9 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Psalms 19:9 - Scofield Reference Notes

Psalms 19:9 - Sermon Bible Commentary

Psalms 19:9 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Psalms 19:9 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Psalms 19:9 - The Biblical Illustrator

Psalms 19:9 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Psalms 19:9 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Psalms 19:9 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 19:9 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes