in: or by.
righteousness. Hebrew. zedakah. See App-73.
Behold, I have longed after thy precepts - I have earnestly desired them. See the notes at Psalms 119:20 . Quicken me in thy righteousness -...
Behold, I have longed after thy precepts: (f) quicken me in thy righteousness. (f) Give me strength to continue in your word even to the end.
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...
40. Behold, I have a desire to thy precepts This is a repetition of what he declared a little before, with regard to his pious affection, an...
Behold, I have longed after thy precepts: quicken me in thy righteousness. Behold, I have longed - Thou searchest the heart; thou knowest that I have...
Behold, I have longed after thy precepts: quicken me in thy righteousness. Behold, I have longed after thy precepts: quicken me in thy righte...
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...
Quicken me in thy righteousness — i.e. , Let the sense of thy eternal justice give me vigour and life. Or the thought may be of the invigorating i...
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...
Behold, I have longed after thy precepts ,.... After a greater degree of knowledge of them, and an opportunity of hearing them explained and enforce...
Behold, I have longed after thy precepts: quicken me in thy righteousness. Ver. 40. Behold, I have longed after thy precepts ] This he could boldl...
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...
40 Behold, I have longed after thy precepts: quicken me in thy righteousness. Here, 1. David professes the ardent affection he had t...
After thy precepts; after a more solid knowledge and constant performance of thy precepts. Quicken me; do thou preserve and maintain both my natu...
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 119:33 . 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.
Behold, I have longed after Thy precepts, with an urgent desire to be directed by the Word of God in his entire conduct; quicken me in Thy righteous...
1 Corinthians 15:45 ; 2 Corinthians 7:1 ; 3 John 1:2 ; Ephesians 2:5 ; Galatians 5:17 ; John 10:10 ; John 5:21 ; Mark 9:24 ; Matthew 26:41 ;...
Longed — After a more solid knowledge and constant performance of them. In — According to thy faithfulness.
40 Behold, I have longed after thy precepts: quicken me in thy righteousness.