Psalms 119:136

Rivers of waters. Hebrew. palgey-mayim. See note on Proverbs 21:1. Eng. idiom. Floods of tears.

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Rivers of waters run down mine eyes - My heart is sad, and my eyes pour forth floods of tears. It is not a gentle weeping, but my eyes are like a...
Arno Geneva Study Bible

Rivers of waters (d) run down mine eyes, because they keep not thy law. (d) He shows what should be the zeal of God's children when they see his wor...
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

136. Rivers of waters run from my eyes. (15) Here David affirms that he was inflamed with no ordinary zeal for the glory of God, inasmuch a...
Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

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Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Rivers of waters run down mine eyes, because they keep not thy law. Rivers of waters run down mine eyes - How much had this blessed man the honor of...
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Rivers of waters run down mine eyes— Mine eyes run down streams of water. The genius of the language requires that it be so translated; not stre...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Rivers of waters run down mine eyes, because they keep not thy law. Rivers of waters run down mine eyes, because they keep not thy law - ( La...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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...
Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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...
G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

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,...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

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...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Rivers of waters run down mine eyes ,.... That is, "out of" them; as the Syriac version: or, "mine eyes let down rivers of waters" t; see Lamentati...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

Rivers of waters run down mine eyes, because they keep not thy law. Ver. 136. Rivers of waters run down mine eyes ] My countenance is clouded, and...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Rivers of water run down mine eyes , &c. Plentiful and perpetual tears, witnesses of the deep sorrow I feel on account of the dishonour which si...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

136 Rivers of waters run down mine eyes, because they keep not thy law. Here we have David in sorrow. 1. It is a great sorrow, to su...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Rivers of waters; plentiful and perpetual tears, witnesses of my deep sorrow for God's dishonour and displeasure, and for the miseries which sinner...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

INTRODUCTION 1. Date and authorship. Some ascribe the authorship to “David, before his accession to the kingdom, in exile and peril ( Psalms 119:9 ;...
Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

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...
Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

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...
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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...
The Biblical Illustrator

Rivers of waters run down mine eyes, because they keep not Thy law. The wail of the good over the sins of the world I. They are the tears of or...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION This is an "alphabetic psalm" of a more stringent character than any other. It consists of twenty-two stanzas, each of eight verses,...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Pe. The Need Of Spiritual Light in the Midst of Godlessness.
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Rivers of waters run down mine eyes, in deep grief and sorrow over the manner in which men reject the Lord and bring destruction upon themselves, be...
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Samuel 15:11 ; Ezekiel 9:4 ; Jeremiah 13:17 ; Jeremiah 14:17 ; Jeremiah 9:1 ; Jeremiah 9:18 ; Luke 19:41 ; Psalms 119:158 ; Psalms 119:53...
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Rivers — Plentiful tears, witness of my deep sorrow for God's dishonour, and for the miseries which sinners bring upon themselves.

¹³⁶ Rivers of waters run down mine eyes, because they keep not thy law.

Related Commentaries of Psalms 119:136

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the 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

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

Preacher's Complete Homiletical 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

Psalms 119:136