Psalms 119:5 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Bible Comments

Here again, we cannot possibly conceive that the word statutes hath a reference to the statutes of Moses. The law (saith an apostle) having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually, make the comers thereunto perfect, Hebrews 10:1. But if we explain the word, as the original will allow, as referring to the design and will of Jehovah in the gracious plan of salvation in the one ordinance of Christ; then it will be evident, that the sacred writer desireth above all things, to have his whole mind directed to Jesus, and to be kept in those statutes which proclaim salvation wholly in and by him.

Psalms 119:5

5 O that my ways were directed to keep thy statutes!