Psalms 119:48

Lift up — To receive and embrace thy precepts and promises.

Related Commentaries of Psalms 119:48

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

My hands also will I lift up unto thy commandments ... - As an expression of delight or rejoicing, as people lift up their hands with their voice...
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

My hands, &c. Hebrew idiom. to swear by, as in Genesis 14:22 . Exodus 6:8 (margin) Deuteronomy 32:40 ; Ezekiel 20:5 ; Ezekiel 20:6 ; Ezek...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

My hands also will I lift up unto thy commandments, which I have loved; and I will meditate in thy statutes. My hands also will I lift up - I will pr...
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

My hands also will I lift up— That is, says Mudge, "I will hold up my hands to receive God's law into them: I will be always reading it.'' Others t...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

My hands also will I lift up unto thy commandments, which I have loved; and I will meditate in thy statutes. My hands also will I lift up unt...
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

My hands. — See Psalms 28:2 . The expression here is elliptical: “I will lift my hands in prayer for power to observe Thy commands.”
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

V A U. The Reader will not need information that Jesus is Jehovah's salvation unto the ends of the earth; Isaiah 49:6 . And the answers of Jesus to...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

My hands also will I lift up unto thy commandments, which I have loved ,.... Showing by such a gesture his great esteem of them, and affection for t...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

My hands also will I lift up unto thy commandments, which I have loved; and I will meditate in thy statutes. Ver. 48. My hands also will I lift up...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

And I will walk at liberty Having then no such encumbrances upon me as I now have in these straits and difficulties which beset and burden me, I sh...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

45 And I will walk at liberty: for I seek thy precepts. 46 I will speak of thy testimonies also before kings, and will not be ashamed. 47...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Lift up; to lay hold upon them, to receive and embrace thy precepts and promises by faith and love, and cheerfully and vigorously to put them in pr...
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 ;...
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

So shall I keep Thy law continually for ever and ever. A noble resolution I. To be constantly obedient (verse 44). What is obedience? Not confo...
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

Vau. The Need of a Fearless Confession of the Divine Truth.
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

My hands also will I lift up unto Thy commandments which I have loved, for prayer and confession must go hand in hand; and I will meditate in Thy st...
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Ezekiel 44:12 ; James 1:22-25 ; John 13:17 ; John 15:14 ; Micah 5:9 ; Matthew 7:21 ; Psalms 10:12 ; Psalms 1:1 ; Psalms 119:15

⁴⁸ My hands also will I lift up unto thy commandments, which I have loved; and I will meditate in thy statutes.

Related Commentaries of Psalms 119:48

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

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

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 119:48