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Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Psalms 119:103-104

Here is, 1. The wonderful pleasure and delight which David took in the word of God; it was sweet to his taste, sweeter than honey. There is such a thing as a spiritual taste, an inward savour and relish of divine things, such an evidence of them to ourselves, by experience, as we cannot give to others. We have heard him ourselves, John 4:2. To this scripture-taste the word of God is sweet, very sweet, sweeter than any of the gratifications of sense, even those that are most delicious. David... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 119:89

ל , LAMED.--The Twelfth Part . LAMED. For ever, O Lord, thy word is settled in heaven. The Syriac version makes two propositions of these words, rendering them thus, "for ever thou art, O Lord; and thy word stands", or "is firm in heaven": and which agrees with the accents: the first of which is expressive of the eternity and immutability of God; and the other of the stability of his word: it is true of the essential Word of God, who was with God from all eternity; in time came down... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 119:90

Thy faithfulness is unto all generations ,.... Or "to generation and generation" F25 לדר ודר "in generationem et generationem", Gejerus; "in aetatem et aetatem", Cocceius. ; to his people in every age, fulfilling his word, supplying their wants, giving them new mercies every morning and every day; never leaving and forsaking them, according to his promise: his faithfulness never fails, it endures for ever, and is exceeding great and large indeed; see Lamentations 3:23 ; thou... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 119:91

They continue this day according to thine ordinances ,.... That is, the heavens and the earth do, before mentioned, just as they were from the beginning of the creation. The heavenly bodies have the same motion, magnitude, distance, and influence; the sun rises and sets as it did; the moon keeps her appointed seasons of full and change, of increase and decrease; the fixed stars retain their place, and the planets have their exact revolutions: and on earth things are as they were; seedtime... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 119:92

Unless thy law had been my delights ,.... Not the law of works, the voice of words, which they that heard entreated they might hear no more; which is terrible, and works wrath in the conscience; is a cursing and damning law to the transgressors of it; and so not delightful, unless as considered in the hands of Christ, the fulfilling end of it: but the law of faith, the doctrine of faith, or of justification by the righteousness of Christ, received by faith, which yields peace, joy, and... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 119:93

I will never forget thy precepts ,.... Not the precepts of the moral law, though he carefully observed and attended to them, laid them up in his mind, and did not forget to keep them; but the doctrines of the word, of the word which the Lord commanded to a thousand generations; these he endeavoured to remember, and not let them slip from him, since it follows: for with them thou hast quickened me : not with the precepts of the moral law, which cannot give life, quicken a dead sinner, nor... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 119:94

I am thine, save me ,.... From all troubles and afflictions; from all enemies, temporal and spiritual; from Satan, and his principalities and powers, from sin, and all the wretched consequences of it; from hell wrath, and damnations: salvation from all which is by Christ. And this is a prayer of faith with respect to him, founded upon his interest and property in him; whose he was by choice, by covenant, by gift, by purchase, and by grace: and this is a plea for salvation; thou hast an... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 119:95

The wicked have waited for me to destroy me ,.... This is another reason why he desires the Lord would save him; because wicked men, such who feared not God, nor regarded men, sons of Belial; such as Saul's courtiers and the conspirators with Absalom were, had laid wait and were waiting an opportunity, and were hoping and expecting to have one, that they might take away his life; destroy him out of the world, as Kimchi; or eternally, as Aben Ezra thinks; by endeavouring to draw him out of... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 119:96

I have seen an end of all perfection ,.... An end, limit, or border, to every country, as the Syriac version; as there is to every kingdom and state, and to the whole world; but none to the commandment of God: or an end of all created beings, the finished works of God, the most perfect in their kind. Manythings had already fallen under the observation of the psalmist: he had seen men of the greatest strength, and of the most consummate wisdom, and that had attained to the highest degree of... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 119:97

מ , MEM.--The Thirteenth Part . MEM. O how love I thy law !.... The whole word of God, the preceptive part of it; the commands of the moral law, which are holy, just, and good, and to be loved: but they are not loved by carnal men, whose minds are enmity to them, and therefore are not and cannot be subject to them, but despise and reject them; but to a good man, on whose heart they are written, they are delightful, and loved to admiration: though this is wholly owing to the grace of... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Psalms 119:103-104

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 119:89

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 119:90

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 119:91

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 119:92

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 119:93

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 119:94

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 119:95

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 119:96

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 119:97

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