laid. set.
I have chosen the way of truth - Among all the paths of life I have selected this. I prefer this. I desire to walk in this. Religion is, wherever...
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...
30. I have chosen the way of truth. In this and the following verse he affirms that he was so disposed as to desire nothing more than to fol...
DISCOURSE: 699 CHRISTIAN EXPERIENCE Psalms 119:30-32 . I have chosen the way of truth: thy judgments have I laid before me. I have stuck unto th...
I have chosen the way of truth: thy judgments have I laid before me . I have chosen the way of truth - And that I may continue in its "remove from m...
I have chosen the way of truth: thy judgments have I laid before me. I have chosen the way of truth; thy judgments have I laid (before me) -...
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...
a Prayer for Understanding Psalms 119:17-32 These verses are full of yearning and unsatisfied desire. The soul breaks for longing, cleaves to t...
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,...
DALETH. These verses compose the fourth part of this divine Psalm. Whether David, the supposed writer of it, thus complains in himself; or whether i...
I have chosen the way of truth ,.... Christ, who is the way and the truth, the true way to God and to eternal happiness; and to choose him is to cho...
I have chosen the way of truth: thy judgments have I laid [before me]. Ver. 30. I have chosen the way of truth ] I am fully bent against lying, an...
Remove from me the way of lying Hebrew, דרךְ שׁקר, dereech sheker , the way of falsehood or deceit , of guile or dissimulation. Let me neither...
30 I have chosen the way of truth: thy judgments have I laid before me. 31 I have stuck unto thy testimonies: O L ORD , put me not to sha...
I have chosen the way of truth, to wit, thy word or law, for my portion, and the rule of my worship and whole life. Laid before me; or, set befor...
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 119:9 . Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way? by taking heed thereto according to thy word. «Wherewithal shall a young man clean...
Psalms 119:21 . Thou hast rebuked the proud that are cursed, which do err from thy commandments. Wherever there is pride in the heart, there is s...
Psalms 119:25 . My soul cleaveth unto the dust: «It sticks to it as though it were glued to it; my soul cannot be lifted up, at least by myself,...
Psalms 119:25 . My soul cleaveth unto the dust: quicken thou me according to thy word. «I feel heavy, unhappy, dull: ‘My soul cleaveth unto the d...
By the help of God's Holy Spirit, this psalm may serve for the purposes of self-examination, for we may ask ourselves as we read, «Do I feel in that...
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...
I have chosen the way of truth: Thy judgments have I laid before me. The commendable past and the desirable future in life I. The commendable i...
EXPOSITION This is an "alphabetic psalm" of a more stringent character than any other. It consists of twenty-two stanzas, each of eight verses,...
Daleth. The Grace of Being Confirmed in the Truth.
I have chosen the way of truth, of faithfulness to the Lord; Thy judgments have I laid before me, deliberately selecting them to direct his way of...
1 Peter 2:2 ; 2 John 1:4 ; Deuteronomy 11:18-20 ; John 3:19-21 ; John 8:45 ; Joshua 24:15 ; Luke 10:42 ; Proverbs 1:29 ; Psalms 119:111 ; P...
Laid — Or, set before me as a mark to aim at; as a rule to direct me.
30 I have chosen the way of truth: thy judgments have I laid before me.