Psalms 119:148

prevent. anticipate, or forestall.

watches. See App-51.

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Mine eyes prevent the night watches - Luther renders this, “I wake up early.” The Hebrew word means a “watch” - a part of the night, so called fr...
Arno Geneva Study Bible

Mine eyes (b) prevent the [night] watches, that I might meditate in thy word. (b) He was more earnest in the study of God's word, than they who kept...
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

148. My eyes have prevented the night watchers. (21) The Psalmist here intimates, that he was more sedulously intent on meditating upon the...
Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

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Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Mine eyes prevent the night watches, that I might meditate in thy word. Mine eyes prevent - קדמו kiddemu, "go before the watches." Before the watch...
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Mine eyes prevent the night-watches— The Jews anciently divided the night into three watches, which began at what we now call six of the clock in t...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Mine eyes prevent the night watches, that I might meditate in thy word. Mine eyes prevent the night watches - Mine eyes are already awake bef...
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...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

'Mine eyes forestall the night-watches,' i.e. when each watch comes I am already awake.
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

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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

KOPH. These verses give us an interesting view of Jesus, and are descriptive of some of those conflicts, under which he was constrained to lift up h...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Mine eyes prevent the [night] watches ,.... The Targum is, "the morning and evening watches.'' There were three of them; Kimchi interprets it of t...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

Mine eyes prevent the [night] watches, that I might meditate in thy word. Ver. 148. Mine eyes prevent the night watches ] By this verse and the fo...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

KOPH. Psalms 119:147 . I prevented the dawning of the morning Hebrew, בנשׁ Š, the twilight , namely, of the morning. In this sense this word...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

147 I prevented the dawning of the morning, and cried: I hoped in thy word. 148 Mine eyes prevent the night watches, that I might meditat...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

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Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

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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...
Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

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Psalms 119:145 . I cried with my whole heart: hear me, O LORD: I will keep thy statutes. In the time of trouble there is no resort like that of p...
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

Mine eyes prevent the night watches, that I might meditate in Thy Word. The inexhaustibleness of the Bible There is something very surprising i...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

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The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Koph. Constant Prayer for Faithfulness over against Opposition.
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Mine eyes prevent the night watches, the coming of each of which finds him awake, that I might meditate in Thy Word, give himself to its undisturbe...
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Lamentations 2:19 ; Luke 6:12 ; Psalms 119:62 ; Psalms 139:17 ; Psalms 139:18 ; Psalms 63:1 ; Psalms 63:6
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

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¹⁴⁸ Mine eyes prevent the night watches, that I might meditate in thy word.

Related Commentaries of Psalms 119:148

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

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

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 119:148