Psalms 119:103

The study and obedience of thy words yields me more satisfaction and delight than any worldly men find in their sensual pleasures.

Related Commentaries of Psalms 119:103

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

How sweet are thy words unto my taste ... - Margin, as in Hebrew, “palate.” The reference is to the taste, perhaps because the sense of taste was...
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...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

sweet . smooth, or agreeable. Not the same word as in Psalms 19:10 .
Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

103. O how sweet have been thy words to my palate! He again repeats what he had previously stated in different words, that he was so powerfu...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

How sweet are thy words unto my taste! yea, sweeter than honey to my mouth! Sweeter than honey to my mouth! - What deep communion must this man hav...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

How sweet are thy words unto my taste! yea, sweeter than honey to my mouth! How sweet are thy words unto my taste! yea, sweeter than honey to m...
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

How sweet are thy words unto my taste !.... Who had a spiritual one; and could discern perverse things, and could taste how good and gracious the Lo...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

How sweet are thy words unto my taste! [yea, sweeter] than honey to my mouth! Ver. 103. How sweet are thy words unto my taste! ] Heb. to my palate...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

How sweet are thy words to my taste! Observe, reader, there is such a thing as a spiritual taste, an inward savour and relish of divine things; suc...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

103 How sweet are thy words unto my taste! yea, sweeter than honey to my mouth! 104 Through thy precepts I get understanding: therefore I...
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

Psalms 119:89 . For ever, O LORD, thy word is settled in heaven. It is not a changeable or vanishing thing: «Thy word is settled,» settled for ev...
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

How sweet are Thy words unto my taste! yea, sweeter than honey to my mouth! The best Christmas fare I like this way of describing the receptio...
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

Mem. God's Word the Essence of True Wisdom.
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

How sweet are Thy words unto my taste! pleasant for spiritual edification; yea, sweeter than honey to my mouth, for such is the effect of the Gospe...
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Job 23:12 ; Proverbs 24:13 ; Proverbs 24:14 ; Proverbs 3:17 ; Proverbs 8:11 ; Psalms 19:10 ; Psalms 63:5 ; Song of Solomon 1:2-4 ; Song of S...

¹⁰³ How sweet are thy words unto my taste! yea, sweeter than honey to my mouth!

Related Commentaries of Psalms 119:103

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

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

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

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 119:103