Psalms 119:141

small. insignificant. Compare Judges 6:15.

Related Commentaries of Psalms 119:141

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

I am small and despised - The word here rendered “small” may mean “small” in respect to number - that is, “few,” Micah 5:2 ; Isaiah 60:22 ; or...
Arno Geneva Study Bible

I [am] (c) small and despised: [yet] do not I forget thy precepts. (c) This is the true trial to praise God in adversity.
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

141. I am, insignificant and despised. The meaning is, that although he was tried with poverty and many other calamities, he steadily persev...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

I am small and despised: yet do not I forget thy precepts. I am small and despised - And on these accounts have every thing to fear. Being small,...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

I am small and despised: yet do not I forget thy precepts. I am small and despised; (yet) do not I forget thy precepts. This makes me great b...
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...
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

These words are hardly applicable to an individual, while to the struggling Israel, in relation to the great Eastern Powers, they are peculiarly suit...
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

TZADDI. In this portion is that memorable verse which throws a light upon the whole Psalm, and fully authorizes us to apply many parts of it directl...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

I [am] small and despised ,.... Or, "I have been" x. Some versions render it "young" y; as if it had respect to the time of his anointing by Samuel,...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

I [am] small and despised: [yet] do not I forget thy precepts. Ver. 141. I am small and despised ] Minutus, a worm and no man, an abject and out...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

My zeal hath consumed me My zeal toward thy law, which my enemies violate and contemn. “Zeal is a high degree of love; and when the object of that...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

141 I am small and despised: yet do not I forget thy precepts. Here is, 1. David pious and yet poor. He was a man after God's ow...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Small; or, a little one ; not for age, but in respect of my condition in the world; mean and obscure.
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 ;...
Sermon Bible Commentary

Psalms 119:141 I. Man, among all his other weaknesses, is so prone to vanity, conceit, and pride that in teaching the lesson of self-respect, in p...
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...
Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Psalms 119:137 . Righteous art thou, O LORD, and upright are thy judgments. It is well to be able to say this when you are being tried, when the...
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

Righteous art Thou, O Lord, and upright are Thy judgments. The testimony of a tried saint I. His testimony concerning God. 1. Concerning the...
The Biblical Illustrator

I am small and despised: yet do not I forget Thy precepts. The common lot I wish to speak of our own separate lives. To the most wearied of you...
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

Tzaddi. The Proper Appreciation of the Word of God.
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

I am small and despised, young and insignificant, without influential connections in the world, his opinions, therefore, being belittled and ridicule...
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 Corinthians 8:9 ; Isaiah 53:3 ; James 2:5 ; Luke 6:20 ; Luke 9:58 ; Proverbs 15:16 ; Proverbs 16:8 ; Proverbs 19:1 ; Proverbs 3:1 ; Psalm...

¹⁴¹ I am small and despised: yet do not I forget thy precepts.

Related Commentaries of Psalms 119:141

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole 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

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

Sermon Bible Commentary

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

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 Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 119:141