It is. See note on Psalms 119:67.
good. right, or fitting.
It is good for me that I have been afflicted - See the notes at Psalms 119:67 . Whatever may have been the form of the affliction, it was good f...
[It is] (d) good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes. (d) He confesses that before he was chastened he was rebellious...
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...
71. It has been good for me that I was afflicted. He here confirms the sentiment which we have previously considered — that it was profitabl...
DISCOURSE: 706 THE BENEFIT OF AFFLICTION Psalms 119:71 . It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes . DAVID...
It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes. It is good for me that I have been afflicted - See on Psalms 119:67...
It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes. It is good for me that I have been afflicted - ( Hebrews 12:10...
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...
It is good... — See Psalms 119:67 . Probably the result of discipline on the nation is intended, though the “sweet uses of adversity” were long ag...
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...
Profiting from Affliction Psalms 119:65-80 Before I was afflicted, I went astray; it is good for me that I have been afflicted; thou in faith...
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,...
TETH. As the first verse of the foregoing portion proved that Jesus was the speaker; so the last verse of this portion as plainly points to the same...
THE DISCIPLINE OF PAIN ‘It is good for me that I have been in trouble: that I may learn Thy statutes.’ Psalms 119:71 (Prayer Book Version) I...
[It is] good for me that I have been afflicted ,.... The good and profit of which he had observed before; Psalms 119:67 . The following end being a...
Psalms 119:71 [It is] good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes. Ver. 71. It is good for me that I have been affli...
It is good for me Necessary and very beneficial; that I have been afflicted He repeats what, in effect, he said before, ( Psalms 119:67 ,) partly...
71 It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes. See here, 1. That it has been the lot of the bes...
Good; necessary, and greatly beneficial. He repeats what in effect he said before, Psalms 119:67 , partly to intimate the certainty and importan...
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 119:71 Times of political decadence are times of spiritual growth. It is out of the inner experience of hidden lives, in ages when statesme...
Psalms 119:64-67 . The earth, O LORD, is full of thy mercy: teach me thy statutes. Thou hast dealt well with thy servant, O LORD, according unto th...
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 proud have forged a lie against me. The slanderer, the corrupt, the pious I. The tongue of the slanderer. Slander is-- 1. Malicious. Its...
It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn Thy statutes. The uses of affliction I. Afflictions promote virtue, and goodne...
EXPOSITION This is an "alphabetic psalm" of a more stringent character than any other. It consists of twenty-two stanzas, each of eight verses,...
Teth. The Realization that God's Humiliation of Man is Salutary.
It is good for me that I have been afflicted, he now gratefully acknowledges the benefit which he has received from the afflictions laid upon him, t...
1 Corinthians 11:32 ; Hebrews 12:10 ; Hebrews 12:11 ; Isaiah 27:9 ; Psalms 119:67 ; Psalms 94:12 ; Psalms 94:13
71 It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes.