fear. dread.
Turn away my reproach - The reproach which is likely to come upon me from being a professed worshipper of God. In all ages good men have been exp...
Turn away (e) my reproach which I fear: for thy judgments [are] good. (e) Let me not fall to your dishonour but let my heart still delight in your g...
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...
39. Take away my reproach. It is not certain to what reproach he alludes. Knowing that many calumniators were on the watch to find occasion...
Turn away my reproach which I fear: for thy judgments are good. Turn away my reproach, which I fear - This may be understood of the reproach which...
Turn away my reproach which I fear: for thy judgments are good. Turn away my reproach which I fear. The reproach of the enemy makes the suppl...
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...
My reproach which I fear ] viz. of sinning against God.
My reproach which I fear. — The word for fear is an unusual one, used in Deuteronomy 9:19 ; Deuteronomy 28:60 , for very strong dread. The reproa...
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...
Love for God's Commands Psalms 119:33-48 Twice over the psalmist says, “thy commandments which I have loved,” and then proceeds to give the key...
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,...
HE. How very beautiful is this portion of the psalm, considered as descriptive of the work of the Holy Ghost. It is his blessed province, and from h...
Turn away my reproach which I fear ,.... Either for the sake of religion, which was disagreeable to him; and he might be afraid it would be too heav...
Turn away my reproach which I fear: for thy judgments [are] good. Ver. 39. Turn away my reproach ] Cover it, cure it, suffer it not to break forth...
Turn away my reproach which I fear For my instability in thy ways; which, in respect to my own weakness, I have great cause to fear; I have longed...
39 Turn away my reproach which I fear: for thy judgments are good. Here, 1. David prays against reproach, as before, Psalms 119...
Turn away my reproach; either, 1. For the shameful disappointment of my hopes and confident boastings concerning the truth and certainty of thy p...
INTRODUCTION 1. Date and authorship. Some ascribe the authorship to “David, before his accession to the kingdom, in exile and peril ( Psalms 119:9 ;...
We have here some of the jottings from David's pocket-book, the notes of his experience as recorded in his diary. The whole Psalm is a great casket f...
Psalms 119:33 . Teach me, O Lord, the way of thy statutes; The psalmist is constantly talking about «the way.» We have that expression in the 27...
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...
Turn away my reproach which I fear; for Thy judgments are good. The dreaded and the desired I. What is here dreaded (verse 39). 1. Reproach...
EXPOSITION This is an "alphabetic psalm" of a more stringent character than any other. It consists of twenty-two stanzas, each of eight verses,...
He. The Constancy of the Believer Upheld and Nourished by God's Word.
Turn away my reproach which I fear, namely, that of denying the Lord, or that of being unjustly accused of such denial; for Thy judgments are good,...
1 Timothy 3:7 ; 1 Timothy 5:14 ; 2 Samuel 12:14 ; Deuteronomy 4:8 ; Isaiah 26:8 ; Psalms 119:22 ; Psalms 119:31 ; Psalms 39:8 ; Psalms 57:3...
I fear — For my instability in thy ways; which in respect to my own weakness, I have great cause to fear.
39 Turn away my reproach which I fear: for thy judgments are good.