Psalms 19:9

fear of the Lord

The "fear of the Lord," a phrase of the Old Testament piety, meaning reverential trust, with hatred of evil.

Related Commentaries of 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 h...
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 i...
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...
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. He...
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 t...
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,...
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 yira...
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,...
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, a...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

The fear of the lord ] another expression for the Law, which produces this fear in the heart. Clean ] opposed to impurity of life. Enduring for ev...
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...
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, w...
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...
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...
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 Jeho...
James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

Psalms 19 Proper Psalm for Christmas Day ( Morning ). Psalms 19-21 = Day 4 ( Morning ).
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...
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...
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...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Excellency of the Scriptures. 7 The law of the L ORD is perfec...
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...
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 t...
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 hea...
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 t...
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 volum...
Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

This Psalm teaches us the excellence of the two revelations which God has made to man. The first is the revelation which he has made in nature, and t...
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, so...
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 Wor...
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 hi...
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...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The fear of the Lord is clean, enduring forever; the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether. The childlike fear and reverence of God...
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 ;...
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 a...

⁹ The fear of the LORD is clean, enduring for ever: the judgments of the LORD are truec and righteous altogether.

Related Commentaries of Psalms 19:9

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sermon Bible Commentary

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

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