Psalms 119:97

Oh, how love I Thy Law! the entire instruction in God's holy Word, as the revelation of His holy will. It is my meditation all the day; the longer he ponders upon it, the dearer it becomes to him.

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

O how love I thy law! - This commences a new division of the Psalm, indicated by the Hebrew letter Mem ( מ m , “m”). The expression here, “O ho...
Arno Geneva Study Bible

MEM. O how love I thy law! it [is] my meditation (a) all the day. (a) He shows that we cannot love God's word unless we exercise ourselves in it and...
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

97. O how have I loved thy law! Not contented with a simple affirmation, the prophet exclaims, by way of interrogation, that he was inflamed...
Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

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Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

MEM. O how love I thy law! it is my meditation all the day. O how love I thy law - This is one of the strongest marks of a gracious and pious heart...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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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...
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

“Thy Word Is a Lamp, unto My Feet” Psalms 119:97-112 The psalmist cries, O how love I thy law! He then proceeds to say that he has become wis...
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

MEM. Reader! let us listen to these sweet words, as the words of Jesus. Let us beg of God the Holy Ghost to give us grace to feel and know our inter...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

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John Trapp Complete Commentary

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Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

MEM. Psalms 119:97 . O how I love thy law! O Lord, thou knowest my love to it is inexpressible: to then I appeal herein against all the censu...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

13. MEM. 97 MEM. O how love I thy law! it is my meditation all the day. Here is, 1...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

MEM O how love I thy law! O Lord, thou knowest it, and to thee I appeal herein against all the censures and calumnies of mine enemies to the contra...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

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Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

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Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Psalms 119:89 . For ever, O LORD, thy word is settled in heaven. Other things come, and go, and change, moons wax and wane, tides ebb and flow, e...
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

O how love I Thy law! it is my meditation all the day. Love to the Scriptures I. They are indubitably authenticated and divinely inspired. 1 Th...
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,...
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 11:1 ; Deuteronomy 17:19 ; Deuteronomy 6:6-9 ; Joshua 1:8 ; Proverbs 18:1 ; Proverbs 2:10

⁹⁷ MEM. O how love I thy law! it is my meditation all the day.

Related Commentaries of Psalms 119:97

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

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the 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 Complete Pulpit Commentary

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 119:97