Lamentations 2:19; Luke 6:12; Psalms 119:62; Psalms 139:17; Psalms 139:18; Psalms 63:1; Psalms 63:6
Mine eyes prevent the night watches - Luther renders this, “I wake up early.” The Hebrew word means a “watch” - a part of the night, so called fr...
Mine eyes (b) prevent the [night] watches, that I might meditate in thy word. (b) He was more earnest in the study of God's word, than they who kept...
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...
prevent . anticipate, or forestall. watches. See App-51.
148. My eyes have prevented the night watchers. (21) The Psalmist here intimates, that he was more sedulously intent on meditating upon the...
DISCOURSE: 712 DAVID’S DESIRE TO SERVE GOD Psalms 119:145-148 . I cried with my whole heart; Hear me, O Lord: I will keep thy statutes. I cried...
Mine eyes prevent the night watches, that I might meditate in thy word. Mine eyes prevent - קדמו kiddemu, "go before the watches." Before the watch...
Mine eyes prevent the night-watches— The Jews anciently divided the night into three watches, which began at what we now call six of the clock in t...
Mine eyes prevent the night watches, that I might meditate in thy word. Mine eyes prevent the night watches - Mine eyes are already awake bef...
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...
'Mine eyes forestall the night-watches,' i.e. when each watch comes I am already awake.
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...
the Joy of Communion with God Psalms 119:145-160 There is great eagerness in the psalmist's prayerfulness. He calls with his whole heart; he aw...
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,...
KOPH. These verses give us an interesting view of Jesus, and are descriptive of some of those conflicts, under which he was constrained to lift up h...
Mine eyes prevent the [night] watches ,.... The Targum is, "the morning and evening watches.'' There were three of them; Kimchi interprets it of t...
Mine eyes prevent the [night] watches, that I might meditate in thy word. Ver. 148. Mine eyes prevent the night watches ] By this verse and the fo...
KOPH. Psalms 119:147 . I prevented the dawning of the morning Hebrew, בנשׁ Š, the twilight , namely, of the morning. In this sense this word...
147 I prevented the dawning of the morning, and cried: I hoped in thy word. 148 Mine eyes prevent the night watches, that I might meditat...
The night watches, Heb. the watches ; which were kept only by night. And these watches were then three, as hath been more than once observed. And...
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 119:137 . Righteous art thou, O LORD, and upright are thy judgments. It is well to be able to say this when you are being tried, when the...
Psalms 119:145 . I cried with my whole heart; hear me. O LORD: I will keep thy statutes. It is sweet to look back upon our prayers, if those pray...
Psalms 119:145 . I cried with my whole heart: hear me, O LORD: I will keep thy statutes. In the time of trouble there is no resort like that of p...
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...
Mine eyes prevent the night watches, that I might meditate in Thy Word. The inexhaustibleness of the Bible There is something very surprising i...
EXPOSITION This is an "alphabetic psalm" of a more stringent character than any other. It consists of twenty-two stanzas, each of eight verses,...
Koph. Constant Prayer for Faithfulness over against Opposition.
Mine eyes prevent the night watches, the coming of each of which finds him awake, that I might meditate in Thy Word, give himself to its undisturbe...
Watches — The middle watch, which was set in the middle of the night; and the morning watch, which was set some hours before the dawning of the day...
148 Mine eyes prevent the night watches, that I might meditate in thy word.