Psalms 119:5

statutes. The ninth in order of the ten words. See App-73.

Related Commentaries of Psalms 119:5

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

O that my ways were directed ... - Indicating the desire of the pious heart. That desire - a prevailing, constant, uniform desire - is to keep th...
Arno Geneva Study Bible

(c) O that my ways were directed to keep thy statutes! (c) David acknowledges his imperfection, desiring God to reform it, that his life may be conf...
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

5 I wish that my ways may be directed The original word כון, kun, is sometimes rendered to establish, and, accordingly, it may seem a...
Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

DISCOURSE: 695 PRACTICAL RELIGION ENFORCED Psalms 119:4-6 . Thou hast commanded us to keep thy precepts diligently: O that my ways were directed...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

O that my ways were directed to keep thy statutes! O that my ways were directed - "I wish that my way may be confirmed to keep thy statutes." Without...
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

O that my ways— The word here principally signifies, the motions and inclinations of the mind and heart, upon which all our actions depend. When I...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

O that my ways were directed to keep thy statutes! O that my ways were directed - `confirmed,' (Hengstenberg: cf. Psalms 78:37 ; Psalms 51:...
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

Directed... — So LXX. and Vulg. The He brew is perhaps slightly different, established, or settled. (See Proverbs 4:26 .)
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

God's Word an Inner Power Psalms 119:1-16 This long and noble psalm is devoted to the praise of God's Word, which is mentioned in every verse b...
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

Here again, we cannot possibly conceive that the word statutes hath a reference to the statutes of Moses. The law (saith an apostle) having a shadow...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

O that my ways were directed to keep thy statutes !] The psalmist, sensible of his own inability, as every good man is, to keep the commands of God,...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

O that my ways were directed to keep thy statutes! Ver. 5. O that my ways were directed, &c. ] David can wish well to that perfection which he...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Thou hast commanded us , &c. Nor is it strange that thy people do so exactly and diligently observe thy precepts, because they are commanded so...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

4 Thou hast commanded us to keep thy precepts diligently. 5 O that my ways were directed to keep thy statutes! 6 Then shall I not be as...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

My desires answer thy commands. Directed, or established , to wit, by thy grace and Holy Spirit; for the direction of God's word he had already.
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 ;...
Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

The first eight verses of this Psalm, in the Hebrew, begin with the letter A, and the second eight begin with the letter B. The whole Psalm is the go...
Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

It is not easy to see the special subjects that are spoken of by David in each of the short portions of eight verses, yet I do not doubt that if each...
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

Blessed are the undefiled in the way, who walk in the law of the Lord. Moral law I. There is a Divine moral law for the regulation of moral lif...
The Biblical Illustrator

O that my ways were directed to keep Thy statutes! Virtuous solicitude A solicitude to perform our duty, to practise holiness at all times, an...
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

The Christian's Golden ABC of the Praise, Power, and Value of God's Word. This beautiful psalm, whose writer is not known, is divided into twenty-...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

O that my ways, the behavior of the believer in every condition in which he finds himself, were directed to keep Thy statutes, the express laws rel...
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 Thessalonians 3:5 ; Psalms 51:10 ; Hebrews 13:21 ; Jeremiah 31:33 ; Romans 7:22-24
Wells of Living Water Commentary

The Wonderful Word Psalms 119:1-24 INTRODUCTORY WORDS When we hold the Bible in our hands we are holding a Book that is distinct from any and...

⁵ O that my ways were directed to keep thy statutes!

Related Commentaries of Psalms 119:5

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

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

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

Wells of Living Water Commentary

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