Psalms 119:157-160 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Many are my persecutors David, being a public person, had many enemies. In this he was a type both of Christ and of his church. The enemies, the persecutors of both, are many, implacable and unwearied in their endeavours against them. Yet do I not decline from thy testimonies Though they tempt me so to do, and persecute me because I will not do it: for I know while I adhere to them God is for me, and then I need not regard who is against me. A man that is steady in the way of his duty, though he may have many enemies, he needs to fear none. I beheld transgressors I observed and considered their ungodly courses; and was grieved Commiserating their sin and folly, and distressed to think of the misery they were bringing on themselves; because they kept not thy word And thereby exposed themselves to thy wrath and indignation. Consider how I love thy precepts My love to which is the cause of my grief for the violation of them. Thy word is true from the beginning From the beginning of the world. “God's word, and every article of his law, was, and ever will be, truth, first and last; what he spoke first was truth, and so will be every determination of his to the end of the world.” Waterland.