Verse 40 Here, 1. 2:13 . These are able to make us wise to salvation and to furnish the man of God for every good work. 33:20, Jer. We must choose to walk in this way, not because we know no other way, but because we know no better; nay we know no other safe and good way. However God has dealt with us, we must own he has dealt well with us, better than we deserve, and all in love and with design to work for our good. of We must make conscience of performing unto the Lord our oaths (an honest man will be as good as his word); nor have we sworn to our own hurt, but it will be unspeakably to our hurt if we do not perform. We must look for comfort only in the way of duty, and that duty must be done, 1. Observe how he resolves to keep God’s law, [1.] And his care was universal; he shunned every evil way. The same general plea to enforce these requests—according to thy word. Verses 109-110 Here is, 1. His precepts, because prescribed to us and not left indifferent. David’s prayer for the salvation of the Lord. He not only discoursed of them to others (many do that only to show their knowledge and authority), but he communed with his own heart about them, and took pains to digest in his own thoughts what he had declared, or had to declare, to others. David’s earnest desire of the continuance of that intimacy, not by visions and voices from heaven, but by the word and Spirit in an ordinary way: Teach me thy statutes, that is, Make me to understand the way of thy precepts. The ruin of the wicked helped to increase, 1. The great use for which the word of God was intended, to give light, that is, to give understanding, to give us to understand that which will be of use to us in our travels through this world; and it is the outward and ordinary means by which the Spirit of God enlightens the understanding of all that are sanctified. And it is so far from being a tedious repetition of the same thing, as may seem to those who look over it cursorily, that, if we duly meditate upon it, we shall find almost every verse has a new thought and something in it very lively. The first letter of the Hebrew alphabet is aleph. Mine eyes fail for thy word--that is, with yearning desire for Thy word. We are then truly sensible of God’s goodness to us in giving us such a lamp and light when we make it a guide to our feet, our path. Topics Subscribe Random Verse. 28:28 ), and the more ready we are in the scriptures the better furnished we are with answers to temptation.14. Those in whom this holy love reigns will not be apt to perplex themselves with needless scruples, nor to take offence at their brethren, 1 Co. 13:6, 1 Co. 13:7 . (3.) We must never be weary of well-doing. This is walking in God’s ways (v. 3), the ways which he has marked out to us and has appointed us to walk in. David professes the ardent affection he had to the word of God: "I have longed after thy precepts, not only loved them, and delighted in what I have already attained, but I have earnestly desired to know them more and do them better, and am still pressing forward towards perfection.’’ Tastes of the sweetness of God’s precepts will but set us a longing after a more intimate acquaintance with them. He pleads the promise of God, his dependence upon the promise, and his expectation from it: "Uphold me, according to thy word, which word I hope in; and, if it be not performed, I shall be made ashamed of my hope, and be called a fool for my credulity.’’ But those that hope in God’s word may be sure that the word will not fail them, and therefore their hope will not make them ashamed. They are certainly cursed, for God resists the proud; and those that throw off the commands of the law lay themselves under its curse (Gal. What we love we love to think of; by this it appeared that David loved the word of God that it was his meditation. 21, . 1. It admirably answers the end; for, (1.) Revive me from the death of spiritual helplessness ( Psalms 119:17 Psalms 119:25 Psalms 119:40 Psalms 119:50 , Psalms 116:3 ). Verse 163 Love and hatred are the leading affections of the soul; if those be fixed aright, the rest move accordingly. He resolves to portion himself in it, and there to seek his happiness, nay, there to enjoy it; "Thy testimonies (the truths, the promises, of thy word) have I taken as a heritage for ever, for they are the rejoicing of my heart.’’ The present delight he took in them was an evidence that the good things contained in them were in his account the best things, and the treasure which he set his heart upon. 17:18 ); but he prays that he might have it written in his heart; for then, and then only, we have it indeed, and to good purpose. This he would be instructed in, that he might do it, and do it well, so as to be accepted in the doing of it: Teach me thy statutes. The more understanding we get by the word of God the more rooted will our hatred of sin be (for to depart from evil, that is understanding, Job. It is the undoubted character of every good man that he has a respect to all God’s commandments. 59:21 ), My word in thy mouth shall not depart out of the mouth of thy seed, nor thy seed’s seed. For example, GRACE – God’s Riches At Christ’s Expense – is an example of acrostic. 4:29 ), when he sheds abroad the love of God in the heart, and puts gladness there. 127,128. God has been ever faithful, and the principles of His government will ever continue worthy of confidence. in--or, "of" the way--course of life. Psalm 119:1. 39, 40. God’s word is a treasure worth laying up, and there is no laying it up safely but in our hearts; if we have it only in our houses and hands, enemies may take it from us; if only in our heads, our memories may fail us: but if our hearts be delivered into the mould of it, and the impressions of it remain on our souls, it is safe. (1.) 64. He had prayed (v. 12) that God would teach him; and here he pleads, "Lord, I have endeavoured to make a good use of the knowledge thou hast given me, therefore increase it;’’ for to him that has shall be given. that thy judgments are right, are righteousness itself. Blessed Ps 1:1-3 32:1,2 112:1 128:1 Mt 5:3-12 Lu 11:28 Joh 13:17 Jas 1:25 Rev … (1.) Cordial in our obedience: I shall observe it with my whole heart, with pleasure and delight, and with vigour and resolution. That he had made religion his serious and deliberate choice: "I have chosen thy precepts. Our love to the saints is then sincere when we love them for the sake of what we see of God in them and the service they do to him. God's word of promise belongs peculiarly to such (compare Genesis 18:19 , 1 Kings 2:4 , 8:25 ) [HENGSTENBERG]. He kept them, his soul kept them. His righteousness, because it is all holy, just, and good, and the rule and standard of righteousness. 2. 1. Behold, the Judge stands before the door. He desires especially the company of those that were not only honest, but intelligent, that have known thy testimonies, have good heads as well as good hearts, and whose conversation will be edifying. 137-139. Verses 78-79 Here David shows,I. Abraham saw it at a distance, and so did others, but at such a distance that it put their eyes to the stretch and they could not stedfastly see it. We should always make the word of God the governor of our discourse, so as never to transgress it by sinful speaking or sinful silence; and we should often make it the subject-matter of our discourse, that it may feed many and minister grace to the hearers. Verse 132 Here is, 1. Of the fulness of the word of God, and its sufficiency for our satisfaction: But thy commandment is broad, exceedingly broad. Live it. His dread of the consequences of hypocrisy: That I be not ashamed. Here observe,I. . 77. He puts them all away like dross. Young men must make the word of God their rule, must acquaint themselves with it and resolve to conform themselves to it; that will do more towards the cleansing of young men that the laws of princes or the morals of philosophers. 169,170. HENGSTENBERG refers the "lie" to such slanders against the Jews during the captivity, as that in Ezra 4:1-6 , of sedition. 12:4, Lu. By what means may the next generation be made better than this? Those whose hearts are fed with the bread of life should with their lips feed many. Thus he did good with his knowledge; he did not hide God’s word from others, but hid it for them; and, out of that good treasure in his heart, brought forth good things, as the householder out of his store things new and old. Though we are not kept from affliction, yet, if we are kept from perishing in our affliction, we have no reason to say, We have cleansed our hands in vain; or, What profit is it that we have served God? At midnight--HENGSTENBERG supposes a reference to the time when the Lord went forth to slay the Egyptian first-born ( Exodus 11:4 , 12:29 ; compare Job 34:20 ). Christ is our surety with God; and, if he be so, Providence shall be our surety against all the world. God's justice and faithfulness in His government aggravate the neglect of the wicked, and more excite the lively zeal of His people. Vain thoughts, how light soever most make of them, are sinful and hurtful, and therefore we should account them hateful and dreadful, for they do not only divert the mind from that which is good, but open the door to all evil, Jer. God’s statutes were as familiar to him as the songs which a man is accustomed to sing; and he conversed with them in his pilgrimage-solitudes. David had but a little of the word of God in comparison with what we have, yet see how highly he valued it; how inexcusable then are we, who have both the Old and New Testament complete, and yet account them as a strange thing! "I will keep thy statutes; I am resolved that by thy grace I will;’’ for, if we turn away our ear from hearing the law, we cannot expect an answer of peace to our prayers, Prov. He would rise at midnight to give thanks to God. The reason of that sorrow. Love it. 1. 120. 2. What David here earnestly prays for the acceptance of are the free-will-offerings, not of his purse, but of his mouth, his prayers and praises. . The lamp of the Word is not the sun. 1. In his favour is life; in his frowns are death.’’ A good man cannot live with any satisfaction any longer than he has some tokens of God’s favour to him. 6:23 . 28-32. We must praise God for his precepts, which are all just and good, for his promises and threatenings and the performance of both in his providence. He had not only a spiritual communion with them in the same faith and hope, but he joined with them in holy ordinances in the courts of the Lord, where rich and poor, prince and peasant, meet together. 2. To look up to God for wisdom and grace to do so (v. 5): O that my ways were directed accordingly! The promised salvation and comfort may be, and often are, long deferred, so that they are ready to faint and fall in the expectation of them. 5. 2. 53. let him pray; let him pray as David does here. He taught our first parents to question the command: Hath God said, You shall not eat? The benefit he promised himself from God’s lovingkindness: "Let it come to me for my comfort (v. 76); that will comfort me when nothing else will; that will comfort me whatever grieves me.’’ Gracious souls fetch all their comfort from a gracious God, as the fountain of all happiness and joy: "Let it come to me, that I may live, that is, that I may be revived, and my life may be made sweet to me, for I have no joy of it while I am under God’s displeasure. And his revealed will is as firm as his secret will; as he will fulfil the thoughts of his heart, so no word of his shall fall to the ground; for it follows here, Thy faithfulness is unto all generations, that is, the promise is sure to every age of the church and it cannot be antiquated by lapse of time. The cause of his constancy: "For thou hast taught me; that is, they were divine instructions that I learned; I was satisfied that the doctrine was of God, and therefore I stuck to it.’’ Or rather, "It was divine grace in my heart that enabled me to receive those instructions.’’ All the saints are taught of God, for he it is that gives the understanding; and those, and those only, that are taught of God, will continue to the end in the things that they have learned. By the word of God we become more than conquerors, that is, unspeakable gainers. He cried with his whole heart; all the powers of his soul were not only engaged and employed, but exerted to the utmost, in his prayers. The former may silence us under our afflictions, and forbid us to repine, but this may satisfy us, and enable us to rejoice; for afflictions are in the covenant, and therefore they are not only not meant for our hurt, but they are really intended for our good: "In faithfulness thou hast afflicted me, pursuant to the great design of my salvation.’’ It is easier to own, in general, that God’s judgments are right, than to own it when it comes to be our own case; but David subscribes to it with application, "Even my afflictions are just and kind.’’. 1 Blessed are the undefiled in the way, who walk in the law of the Lord. God’s testimonies are not only wonderful for the greatness of them, but useful, as a light in a dark place. Now God was both these to him, a hiding-place to preserve him from danger and a shield to preserve him in danger, his life from death and his soul from sin. More modern commentators sometimes conclude that it is post-exilic, coming from the days of Nehemiah or Ezra. Verse 126 Here is, 1. the way of thy statutes--that is, the way or manner of life prescribed by them. Verse 64 Here, 1. As God made, so He can best control, us. "Thy hands have not only made me, and given me a being, otherwise I should never have been, but fashioned me, and given me this being, this noble and excellent being, endued with these powers and faculties;’’ and we must own that we are fearfully and wonderfully made. The impression which the wickedness of the wicked made upon David; it frightened him, it put him into an amazement. I have hoped for that as my happiness and laid up my treasure in it; I have hoped for it as thine, as a happiness of thy preparing, thy promising, and which consists in being with thee. SAMECH. The pleasure David took in the word of God. The surest token of God’s good-will toward us is his good work in us.12. 2. The first thing he did in the morning, before he admitted any business, was to pray, when his mind was most fresh and in the best frame. We are all strangers on earth and must so account ourselves. There is but a step between him and death, for the wicked have laid a snare for him; Saul did so many a time, because he hated him for his piety. transgressors--or, literally, "traitors," who are faithless to a righteous sovereign and side with His enemies (compare Psalms 25:3 Psalms 25:8 ). Verse 107 Here is, 1. 2. His plea to enforce this prayer: "Lord, bring me to, and keep me in, the way of thy commandments, for therein do I delight; and therefore I pray thus earnestly for grace to walk in that way. (3.) 122. With full consent and complacency: "I have, by the grace of God, inclined my heart to it, and conquered the aversion I had to it.’’ A good man brings his heart to his work and then it is done well. They are easy, and have a holy serenity; none enjoy themselves more than they do: Great peace have those that love thy law, abundant satisfaction in doing their duty and pleasure in reflecting upon it. They do not seek themselves and their own things, but God only; this is that which they aim at, that God may be glorified in their obedience and that they may be happy in God’s acceptance. This we must aim at in all we do in religion, that, whether present or absent, we may be accepted of the Lord. The conscience be made of conforming to it. 17:14, Ps. His abstaining from sin was, (1.) However, it would be of use to the learners, a help to them both in committing it to memory and in calling it to mind upon occasion; by the letter the first word would be got, and that would bring in the whole verse; thus young people would the more easily learn it by heart and retain it the better even in old age. Such is the earnestness of the desire and love for God's truth. He can claim nothing as his due, but all his supports under his affliction must come from mere mercy and compassion to one in misery, one in want. 12:5 . 9. The pardoning mercy of God in … 102 I have not departed from thy judgments: for thou hast taught me. Paul often expressed the hope that for God’s grace to him thanks would be rendered by many, 2 Co. 1:11 2 Co. 4:15 . It is often the infirmity even of good men to be weary of waiting God’s time when their time has elapsed. He prays, 1. 2. 103 How sweet are thy words unto my taste! The word of God will judge us, it will judge us in righteousness, and by it our everlasting state will be determined. David claims relation to God: "I am thine, devoted to thee and owned by thee, thine in covenant.’’ He does not say, Thou art mine (as Dr. Manton observes), though that follows of course, because that were a higher challenge; but, I am thine, expressing himself in a more humble and dutiful way of resignation; nor does he say, I am thus, but, I am thine, not pleading his own good property or qualification, but God’s propriety in him: "I am thine, not my own, not the world’s.’’ 2. To freedom from reproach, when imbued with God's truth, there is added "great boldness in the faith" [ 1 Timothy 3:13 ], accompanied with increasing delight in the holy law itself, which becomes an element of happiness. Verse 102 Here is, 1. Though he was a king, he would associate with the poorest of his subjects that feared God, Ps. This he did, not only as a king in making orders, and giving judgment, according to the word of God, nor only as a prophet by his psalms, but in his common discourse. 4:42 . His judgments, because framed in infinite wisdom, and because by them we must both judge and be judged. 42. 32:7, Job. He prays that God would give him strength to praise him: "Let thy judgments help me; let all ordinances and all providences’’ (both are God’s judgments) "further me in glorifying God; let them be the matter of my praise and let them help to fit me for that work.’’. He prays for God’s grace, and begs to be under the guidance and influence of it: Teach me thy statutes. Verse 166 Here is the whole duty of man; for we are taught, 1. That his heart was upon heaven: I have longed for thy salvation. Wherever he was he found some design or other laid against him to take away his life, for it was that they aimed at. DailyVerses.net › Bible books › Psalms < Psalm 119 - KJV & NIV > Read this Bible chapter online, click here to read. Two particular requests, which he is thus earnest to present: 1. David’s complaint here is like St. Paul’s of a body of death that he carried about with him. 131-135. And thus the Psalm, in sentiment, returns into itself; and the latter verse is so connected with the former, as to make the whole a perfect circle, like the serpent biting its own tail. The great intimacy and freedom that had been between David and his God. He pleads the great need he had of God’s grace and the great advantage it would be of to him: Uphold me, that I may live, intimating that he could not live without the grace of God; he should fall into sin, into death, into hell, if God did not hold him up; but, supported by his hand, he shall live; his spiritual life shall be maintained and be an earnest of eternal life. All departure from God’s statutes is certainly an error, and will prove a fatal one. David’s request for God’s favour to himself: "Look graciously upon me; let me have thy smiles, and the light of thy countenance. See here what is the best help for bad memories, namely, good affections. He therefore prays that God would be good to him according to his necessity and capacity: "Teach me thy statutes. 65-67. 6:14 ), Sin shall not have dominion over you. That God, by his providence, would rescue him out of his troubles: Deliver me, that is, with the temptation make a way to escape, 1 Co. 10:13 .III. 2. testimonies--The word of God is so called, because in it He testifies for truth and against sin. 2. The continuance of the most useful life is owing to God’s bounty, and on that we must have a continual dependence. Verse 25 Here is, I. David’s complaint. Every man hates to have a lie told him; but we should more hate telling a lie because by the former we only receive an affront from men, by the latter we give an affront to God. Note, The best evidence of our love to the word of God is never to forget it. Without were fightings, within were fears, and both together brought him even to the dust of death (Ps. Young's Compare all. thy word is settled. Those will not long make conscience of good practices who do not adhere to good principles. That there are wondrous things in God’s law, which we are all concerned, and should covet, to behold, not only strange things, which are very surprising and unexpected, but excellent things, which are to be highly esteemed and valued, and things which were long hidden from the wise and prudent, but are now revealed unto babes. Verse 149 Here, 1. 2. That he should be thoughtful and considerate in his duty (v. 48): "I will meditate in thy statutes, not only entertain myself with thinking of them as matters of speculation, but contrive how I may observe them in the best manner.’’ By this it will appear that we truly love God’s commandments, if we apply both our minds and our hands to them.7. Verse 157 Here is, 1. Literally, "Mine eyes come down (dissolved) like water brooks" ( Lamentations 3:48 , Jeremiah 9:1 ). He turned not only his eye to them, but his feet, his affections to the love of God’s word and his conversation to the practice of it. Who will put wine into such old bottles? 2. "Those who fear Thee will be glad at my prosperity, as they consider my cause their cause" ( Psalms 34:2 , 142:7 ). The law appointed that, if a man dug a pit which occasioned any mischief, he should answer for the mischief (Ex. He means more: "Lord, show thy commandments to me; let me never know the want of the word of God, but, as long as I live, give me to be growing in my acquaintance with it. Psalm 119:111 Parallel Verses [⇓ See commentary ⇓] Psalm 119:111, NIV: "Your statutes are my heritage forever; they are the joy of my heart." And we may not only learn, by the psalmist’s example, to accustom ourselves to such pious ejaculations, which are an excellent means of maintaining constant communion with God, and keeping the heart in frame for the more solemn exercises of religion, but we must make use of the psalmist’s words, both for the exciting and for the expressing of our devout affections; what some have said of this psalm is true, "He that shall read it considerately, it will either warm him or shame him.’’ The composition of it is singular and very exact. I seek thy precepts, for I have loved them, v. 47, v. 48. Those that see God’s word to be admirable will prize it highly and preserve it carefully, as that which they promise themselves great things from. 2. 2. He would not throw off his religion, though it exposed him to contempt, for he knew that was designed to try his constancy. Those that know much of the word of God should still covet to know more; for there is more to be known. Let my . Blessed are they that keep his testimonies, and that seek him with the whole heart. 1. VAU. How David was abused even by great men, who should have known better his character and his case, and have been more generous: Princes did sit, sit in council, sit in judgment, and speak against me. David can appeal to God in this matter: "Lord, thou knowest that I have chosen thee for my portion, and depend upon thee to make me happy.’’ 2. All rights reserved. They--the heaven ( Psalms 119:89 ) and the earth ( Psalms 119:90 ). 30:6 . David established in the way of his duty, notwithstanding: "Yet do I not decline from thy testimonies, as knowing that while I adhere to them God is for me; and then no matter who is against me.’’ A man who is steady in the way of his duty, though he may have many enemies, needs fear none. Prosperity is the unhappy occasion of much iniquity; it makes people conceited of themselves, indulgent of the flesh, forgetful of God, in love with the world, and deaf to the reproofs of the word. In the multitude of his cares for his own safety he finds room in his head and heart for the word of God, and has that in his mind as fresh as ever; and where that dwells richly it will be a well of living water. Blessed and holy are those who thus exercise themselves to have always consciences void of offence. In Psalm 119:21 the lxx has probably caught the meaning of the poet better than the pointing has done, inasmuch as it draws ἐπικατάρατοι to Psalm 119:21, so that Psalm 119:21 consists of two words, just like Psalm 119:59, Psalm 119:89; and Kamphausen also follows this in his rendering. How he prayed—with his whole heart, as one that knew how to value the blessing he prayed for. He not only read the book of the law, but digested what he read in his thoughts, and was delivered into it as into a mould: it was his meditation not only in the night, when he was silent and solitary, and had nothing else to do, but in the day, when he was full of business and company; nay, and all the day; some good thoughts were interwoven with his common thoughts, so full was he of the word of God. 2. Such is the constitution of it, and so well ordered is it in all things, that it cannot but be sure. 97. 8:8 . Horror--rather, "vehement wrath" [HENGSTENBERG]. 21:33, Ex. 2. 2. Of his afflictions, either trouble of mind or outward trouble. Verse 155 Here is, 1. 3. 122 Be surety for thy servant for good: let not the proud oppress me. We should praise God seven times a day, for the subject can never be exhausted and our affections should never be tired. 2. 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