Job 30:30; Psalms 102:3; Psalms 102:4; Psalms 22:15; Psalms 119:16; Psalms 119:176; Psalms 119:61
For I am become like a bottle in the smoke - Bottles in the East were commonly made of skins. See the notes at Matthew 9:17 . Such “bottles,” ha...
For I am become like a (b) bottle in the smoke; [yet] do I not forget thy statutes. (b) Like a skin bottle or bladder that is parched in the smoke.
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...
bottle . wine-skin: i.e. black and shrivelled. Compare Job 30:30 .
83. For I have been as a bottle in the smoke. (426) The particle כי, ki, translated for, might also, not improperly, be resolved into...
For I am become like a bottle in the smoke; yet do I not forget thy statutes. Like a bottle in the smoke - In the eastern countries their bottles a...
For I am become like a bottle in the smoke; yet do I not forget thy statutes. For I am become like a bottle in the smoke - my skin is become...
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...
Bottle] RM 'wine skin.' Bottles were made of the untanned hide of an animal. In the smoke they would be dried up, shrivelled and useless. Such Isra...
A bottle in the smoke. — The insertion of yet by our translators shows that they understood this as a figure of abject misery. The wine-skin woul...
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 Word That Stands Fast Psalms 119:81-96 They persecute wrongfully; they dig pits; they have almost consumed; they have waited to destroy; bu...
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,...
CAPH. The opening of this portion is also very beautiful, in reference to the Lord Jesus, who waited with longing expectation for the time of his be...
For I am become like a bottle in the smoke ,.... Like a bottle made of the skins of beasts, as was usual in those times and countries: hence we read...
For I am become like a bottle in the smoke; [yet] do I not forget thy statutes. Ver. 83. For I am become like a bottle in the smoke ] Shrivelled,...
CAPH. Psalms 119:81 . My soul fainteth for thy salvation With longing desire, earnest expectation, and hope deferred. Mine eyes fail With l...
83 For I am become like a bottle in the smoke; yet do I not forget thy statutes. David begs God would make haste to comfort him, 1...
In the smoke; hung up in a smoking chimney. My natural moisture is dried and burnt up; I am withered, and deformed, and despised, and my case grows...
INTRODUCTION 1. Date and authorship. Some ascribe the authorship to “David, before his accession to the kingdom, in exile and peril ( Psalms 119:9 ;...
In this Psalm we have, as it were, notes from David's pocket book. Psalms 119:73 . Thy hands have made me and fashioned me: give me understanding,...
Psalms 119:81 . My soul fainteth for thy salvation: but I hope in thy word. The psalmist was so full of longings, hungerings, thirstings, for God...
Psalms 119:81 . My soul fainteth for thy salvation: but I hope in thy word. The ship rocks, but the anchor holds; the singer is ready to faint, b...
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...
My soul fainteth for Thy salvation: but I hope in Thy Word. Painful soul moods and their antidotes I. Painful moods of soul. 1. Painful year...
For I am become like a bottle in the smoke. The wineskin in the smoke Ewald and Delitzsch read, “Although I am become as a wineskin hung in the...
EXPOSITION This is an "alphabetic psalm" of a more stringent character than any other. It consists of twenty-two stanzas, each of eight verses,...
Caph. The Consolation of God's Word in the Midst of Great Troubles.
For I am become like a bottle in the smoke, a wine-skin shriveled up and blackened from being suspended high over the fireplace, the point of compari...
Bottle — A leathern bottle. My natural moisture is dryed and burnt up.
83 For I am become like a bottle in the smoke; yet do I not forget thy statutes.