This — This comfortable remembrance.
This I had, because I kept thy precepts - literally, “This was to me;” that is, This has happened to me; this has occurred. This joyful remembran...
(g) This I had, because I kept thy precepts. (g) That is, all these benefits.
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...
This. Supply Ellipsis (App-6) thus: "This [comfort]. had".
56. This was done to me. I doubt not that the prophet, under the term זאת, zoth, comprehends all God’s benefits; but as he comes before...
This I had, because I kept thy precepts. This I had, because I kept thy precepts - Though thou didst leave us under the power of our enemies, yet tho...
This I had, &c.— That is, "this sweet composure of mind, this cheerfulness of spirit, under all these afflictions." CHETH.
This I had, because I kept thy precepts. This I had, because I kept thy precepts - "this" good I have had as my reward (namely, that thy stat...
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...
'This (comfort) I have that I have kept thy law.'
This I had, because... — Literally, This was to me, &c, i.e., this consoling recollection of the mercies of God, of His covenant grace, was...
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...
Comforted by God's Judgments Psalms 119:49-64 Rays of comfort begin to steal into the psalmist's heart. Thou hast caused me to hope; this is m...
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,...
ZAIN. While we contemplate the ever-blessed Jesus thus hanging upon the promises of the Father, we may in him, and through him, humbly adopt the sam...
This I had, because I kept thy precepts. Either the comfort he had from the word, the pleasure and delight he had in it, being his songs in his pil...
This I had, because I kept thy precepts. Ver. 56. This I had ] This comfort, or this remembrance, or this ability to keep thy law. Because I ke...
Thy statutes have been my songs The matter of my songs, my delight and recreation; in the house of my pilgrimage In this present world, wherein I...
55 I have remembered thy name, O L ORD , in the night, and have kept thy law. 56 This I had, because I kept thy precepts. Here is,...
This I had, this comfortable and profitable remembrance and contemplation of thy name and statutes, of which he spoke Psalms 119:54,55 , because...
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 119:55-56 I. The keeping of God's law is promoted by the remembering of God's name. The name of God includes all the attributes of God. (1)...
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...
I have remembered Thy name, O Lord, in the night, and have kept Thy law. Thought It is the glory of man that he can think. We conquer Nature by...
EXPOSITION This is an "alphabetic psalm" of a more stringent character than any other. It consists of twenty-two stanzas, each of eight verses,...
Zain. Patience in Persecution and Crosses.
This I had, that was his special privilege, because I kept Thy precepts, looking to the Word for directions to guide his conduct at all times. Thus...
1 John 3:19-24 ; Psalms 119:165 ; Psalms 18:18-22
56 This I had, because I kept thy precepts.