2 Thessalonians 3:5; Psalms 51:10; Hebrews 13:21; Jeremiah 31:33; Romans 7:22-24
O that my ways were directed ... - Indicating the desire of the pious heart. That desire - a prevailing, constant, uniform desire - is to keep th...
(c) O that my ways were directed to keep thy statutes! (c) David acknowledges his imperfection, desiring God to reform it, that his life may be conf...
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...
statutes. The ninth in order of the ten words. See App-73.
5 I wish that my ways may be directed The original word כון, kun, is sometimes rendered to establish, and, accordingly, it may seem a...
DISCOURSE: 695 PRACTICAL RELIGION ENFORCED Psalms 119:4-6 . Thou hast commanded us to keep thy precepts diligently: O that my ways were directed...
O that my ways were directed to keep thy statutes! O that my ways were directed - "I wish that my way may be confirmed to keep thy statutes." Without...
O that my ways— The word here principally signifies, the motions and inclinations of the mind and heart, upon which all our actions depend. When I...
O that my ways were directed to keep thy statutes! O that my ways were directed - `confirmed,' (Hengstenberg: cf. Psalms 78:37 ; Psalms 51:...
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...
Directed... — So LXX. and Vulg. The He brew is perhaps slightly different, established, or settled. (See Proverbs 4:26 .)
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...
God's Word an Inner Power Psalms 119:1-16 This long and noble psalm is devoted to the praise of God's Word, which is mentioned in every verse b...
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,...
Here again, we cannot possibly conceive that the word statutes hath a reference to the statutes of Moses. The law (saith an apostle) having a shadow...
O that my ways were directed to keep thy statutes !] The psalmist, sensible of his own inability, as every good man is, to keep the commands of God,...
O that my ways were directed to keep thy statutes! Ver. 5. O that my ways were directed, &c. ] David can wish well to that perfection which he...
Thou hast commanded us , &c. Nor is it strange that thy people do so exactly and diligently observe thy precepts, because they are commanded so...
4 Thou hast commanded us to keep thy precepts diligently. 5 O that my ways were directed to keep thy statutes! 6 Then shall I not be as...
My desires answer thy commands. Directed, or established , to wit, by thy grace and Holy Spirit; for the direction of God's word he had already.
INTRODUCTION 1. Date and authorship. Some ascribe the authorship to “David, before his accession to the kingdom, in exile and peril ( Psalms 119:9 ;...
The first eight verses of this Psalm, in the Hebrew, begin with the letter A, and the second eight begin with the letter B. The whole Psalm is the go...
It is not easy to see the special subjects that are spoken of by David in each of the short portions of eight verses, yet I do not doubt that if each...
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...
Blessed are the undefiled in the way, who walk in the law of the Lord. Moral law I. There is a Divine moral law for the regulation of moral lif...
O that my ways were directed to keep Thy statutes! Virtuous solicitude A solicitude to perform our duty, to practise holiness at all times, an...
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 Christian's Golden ABC of the Praise, Power, and Value of God's Word. This beautiful psalm, whose writer is not known, is divided into twenty-...
O that my ways, the behavior of the believer in every condition in which he finds himself, were directed to keep Thy statutes, the express laws rel...
The Wonderful Word Psalms 119:1-24 INTRODUCTORY WORDS When we hold the Bible in our hands we are holding a Book that is distinct from any and...
5 O that my ways were directed to keep thy statutes!