wonderful. Same root as in verses: Psalms 119:18; Psalms 119:27.
keep. keep safely.
Thy testimonies are wonderful - This commences a new division of the psalm, indicated by the Hebrew letter Pe ( פ p ), corresponding to our “...
PE. Thy testimonies [are] (a) wonderful: therefore doth my soul keep them. (a) Containing high and secret mysteries, so that I am moved with admirat...
CXIX. Praise of the Law. This is the longest and most artificial Ps. in the whole collection. It is divided into twenty-two strophes, each beginnin...
129. Thy testimonies are marvelous. I have given this translation to avoid an ambiguous form of expression. The Prophet does not simply mean...
PE. Thy testimonies are wonderful: therefore doth my soul keep them. Thy testimonies are wonderful - There is a height, length, depth, and breadth...
Thy testimonies are wonderful— Namely, on account of the excellent wisdom contained in them. Mudge renders the first clause of the next verse thus:...
Thy testimonies are wonderful: therefore doth my soul keep them. Thy testimonies are wonderful: therefore doth my soul keep them - "wonderful...
The longest Ps. and the best example of an alphabetical Ps. There are in it twenty-two stanzas; each of the 8 vv. of each stanza commences with the s...
Psalms 119:1-176 IT is lost labour to seek for close continuity or progress in this psalm. One thought pervades it-the surpassing excellence of th...
Why Love God's Word? Psalms 119:129-144 What a beautiful soul this is that utters itself in these stanzas! The psalmist acknowledges his simpli...
Any dealing with this psalm must necessarily be general and not particular. It has been called the psalm of the Law, not inaccurately; but the term,...
PE. The verses in this portion form a beautiful reduplication of the same delightful truths. It is Jesus speaking through the whole of them, in his...
p, PE.--The Seventeenth Part . Ver. 129. PE. Thy testimonies [are] wonderful ,.... The Scriptures, which testify of God, his mind and will, are wo...
PE. Thy testimonies [are] wonderful: therefore doth my soul keep them. Ver. 129. Thy testimonies are wonderful ] As comprehending high and hidden...
PE. Psalms 119:129 . Thy testimonies are wonderful In regard of the deep mysteries, the most excellent counsels and directions, and the excee...
17. PE. 129 Thy testimonies are wonderful: therefore doth my soul keep them. See h...
PE Ver. 129. Wonderful; in regard of the deep and wonderful mysteries, and most excellent counsels and directions, far exceeding all the rules of...
INTRODUCTION 1. Date and authorship. Some ascribe the authorship to “David, before his accession to the kingdom, in exile and peril ( Psalms 119:9 ;...
Psalms 119:129 I. Consider, first, how the wonderfulness of God's word is calculated to produce the observance of it. The human mind is possessed...
Psalms 119:129 . Thy testimonies are wonderful: therefore doth my soul keep them. Every true believer admires God's Word; and, more than that, it...
Psalms 119:129 . Thy testimonies are wonderful: therefore doth my soul keep them. It is very wonderful that God should speak to us at all, and st...
That David was the author of this psalm, no one ever doubted. It is divided into twenty two octo-distichs, having a letter of the Hebrew alphabet at...
Therefore I love Thy commandments above gold. God’s Word God’s Word is here revealed in several aspects-- I. As a prize. It is “above gold.”...
Thy testimonies are wonderful; therefore doth my soul keep them. Wonder an element of religion “The Scriptures,” says an old bishop, “are wonde...
EXPOSITION This is an "alphabetic psalm" of a more stringent character than any other. It consists of twenty-two stanzas, each of eight verses,...
Thy testimonies are wonderful, elevated above everyday life and the common understanding, becoming more marvelous the longer one contemplates them;...
Pe. The Need Of Spiritual Light in the Midst of Godlessness.
Isaiah 25:1 ; Isaiah 9:6 ; Psalms 119:146 ; Psalms 119:18 ; Psalms 119:2 ; Psalms 119:31 ; Psalms 139:6 ; Psalms 25:10 ; Revelation 19:10
Wonderful — In regard of the deep mysteries, the most excellent directions, and the exceeding great and precious promises of God contained in them....
129 PE. Thy testimonies are wonderful: therefore doth my soul keep them.