Psalms 119:36

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Incline my heart unto thy testimonies - Cause my heart to be inclined to them, or to be disposed to keep them. This, too, is a recognition of dep...
Arno Geneva Study Bible

Incline my heart unto thy testimonies, and not to (c) covetousness. (c) By this, meaning all other vices, because covetousness is the root of all ev...
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

36. Incline my heart In this verse he confesses the human heart to be so far from yielding to the justice of God, that it is more inclined t...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Incline my heart unto thy testimonies, and not to covetousness. Not to covetousness - Let me have no inordinate love for gain of any kind, nor for an...
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Not to covetousness— That is, an immoderate desire of worldly goods.
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Incline my heart unto thy testimonies, and not to covetousness. Incline my heart unto thy testimonies, and not to covetousness. Love to God a...
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

Covetousness. — Literally, rapine, prey. In Psalms 30:9 simply, “gain.”
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

Love for God's Commands Psalms 119:33-48 Twice over the psalmist says, “thy commandments which I have loved,” and then proceeds to give the key...
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

HE. How very beautiful is this portion of the psalm, considered as descriptive of the work of the Holy Ghost. It is his blessed province, and from h...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Incline my heart unto thy testimonies ,.... To read the word of God, to hear it opened and explained, to observe and keep the things contained in it...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

Incline my heart unto thy testimonies, and not to covetousness. Ver. 36. Incline my heart ] Through the exercises of thy word, and the working of...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Incline my heart , &c. As the wisdom of man may conceive, and his tongue utter, great things of God and holiness, while his heart is averse from...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

35 Make me to go in the path of thy commandments; for therein do I delight. 36 Incline my heart unto thy testimonies, and not to covetousne...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Unto thy testimonies; to the love and practice of them. Not to covetousness; not to the inordinate love and desire of riches: which particular lu...
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

By the help of God's Holy Spirit, this psalm may serve for the purposes of self-examination, for we may ask ourselves as we read, «Do I feel in that...
Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

We have here some of the jottings from David's pocket-book, the notes of his experience as recorded in his diary. The whole Psalm is a great casket f...
Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Psalms 119:33 . Teach me, O Lord, the way of thy statutes; The psalmist is constantly talking about «the way.» We have that expression in the 27...
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

Teach me, O Lord, the way of Thy statutes; and I shall keep it unto the end. Ethical instruction I. Ethical instruction is instruction in duty....
The Biblical Illustrator

Incline my heart unto Thy testimonies, and not to covetousness. The bane and the antidote I. The evil of man and its antidote. 1. The evil o...
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

He. The Constancy of the Believer Upheld and Nourished by God's Word.
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Incline my heart unto Thy testimonies, bowing it down to a most careful observance of them, and not to covetousness, this being one of the vices wh...
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Covetousness — He mentions this in particular, because it is most opposite to God's testimonies, and does most commonly hinder men from receiving h...

³⁶ Incline my heart unto thy testimonies, and not to covetousness.

Related Commentaries of Psalms 119:36

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

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

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

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Psalms 119:36